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A Houseboat for Artistic Eco-experimentation Docks Among Yachts
SAG HARBOR, NY — Shortly after the 45-foot-long, angular vessel docked at Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, a mallard settled into a planter affixed to the bow and laid six eggs.
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The Internet’s Supposed Invisibility and the Fantasies It Fuels
BERLIN — If we could see the inner workings of the internet, the cabled intestines that run between our walls, under our cities, and across oceans, would we grasp what the internet really is?
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After Orlando, a Local Artist Works to Overcome the Numbness
ORLANDO — On the morning of June 12, my phone was blowing up.
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Wolfgang Tillmans Focuses on Borders and Brexit in London
LONDON — Like many other Europeans living in the UK, I am not eligible to vote in Thursday's referendum that will decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.
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Perfume Bottles, Boats, and Shrunken Heads in a Museum of Everyday Objects
OXFORD, UK — During a recent visit to London, I took a day trip to Oxford for the sole purpose of seeing one museum: the Pitt Rivers Museum. I’d heard that viewing the collection was like entering a 19th-century Wunderkammer, and that it had an impressive collection of shrunken heads.
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Art that Exposes the Theater of Politics
CLEVELAND — In a drawing by cartoonist Edward Freska, the bald eagle that represents the United States on the country’s Great Seal is injured.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, a show by renowned Dutch-Californian conceptualist Bas Jan Ader lands in Chelsea, queer book arts get a show, Staten Island's Lumen festival returns, and more.
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Abstract Paintings that Evoke Persian Gardens and a Bloody Coup
Due to the impenetrable, illusory quality of these paintings, one doesn’t immediately associate them with covert operations, skullduggery, and violence.
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Bringing a Sculptural Platoon of Female Soldiers to Life
DALLAS — In a downstairs gallery the Nasher Sculpture Center, Mai-Thu Perret has created an enclave for her newest sculptural figures — a band of female militants, plus one dog.
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Despite Scandals and Slashed Funding, an Art Museum Perseveres in China
CHENGDU, China — Four years after opening, Chengdu MoCA had to radically reorient itself after several prominent officials connected to it were investigated for corruption.
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At Basel’s Liste Fair, a More Eclectic Sampling of Art
BASEL, Switzerland — The Liste art fair is intended to introduce new, fresh names to the fair scene in Basel. And, true, they are fresh — sometimes too fresh, so that the work seems rushed or unfinished.
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A Rainbow of Visual Responses to the Orlando Shooting
As I watched the unbelievable events in Orlando transpire on television news networks and social media, I was so numb that all the information jumbled together.