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Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.
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Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
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Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
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A Luminescent Installation Responds to Twitter Users’ Mood Swings
The exhibition proposes two core questions: Is this type of city compatible with the needs of its inhabitants, and is this kind of anonymous and automated policing comparable to public administration and democratic politics?
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To Cite or to Steal? When a Scholarly Project Turns Up in a Gallery
It's early enough in my career that I still get a thrill whenever I see my work shared online.
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Shooting Down the Purely Aesthetic Aspirations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Piers
SULZANO, Italy — I decided to make the journey from my home in Rome to Sulzano in northern Italy to judge the merits and pitfalls of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Floating Piers” — an almost two-mile long floating walkway situated on Lake Iseo — for myself.
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Picasso and Matisse Trade Blows in a Cubism vs. Fauvism Bar Brawl
Pablo Picasso and Henri Matisse were the 20th century’s greatest artistic frenemies.
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In the Jungle of Henri Rousseau's Imagination
PARIS — Henri Rousseau is art history’s best-known naïf painter.
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Nature’s Dark Edge
To get to Y Gallery in Manhattan’s Lower East Side, you have to climb five long flights of rickety stairs.
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Building with Bricks Made from Industrial Waste
In August, a pair of architects will move into their new home in Rotterdam. Its rising walls are built of tan-colored bricks that, to the eye, seem like your typical building materials, but they are actually made entirely out of waste.
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Yun-Fei Ji's Ghost Stories of the Living
CLINTON, NY — Yun-Fei Ji: The Intimate Universe, at the Wellin Museum of Art, is the Beijing-born, Ohio-based artist’s largest solo exhibition to date in the United States.
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The Bloody History of Pakistan in Miniature Landscapes
LONDON — Pakistan is not an old nation state, but its history — and, indeed, its present — is uncommonly steeped in blood.