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In Tate Modern’s New Wing, a Broader, More Global View of Art
LONDON — The day began in the Turbine Hall, the 85-foot-tall atrium at the heart of Tate Modern, the most visited museum of modern and contemporary art in the world.
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Corcoran Art School Lays Off Over Half Its Faculty, Sowing Discontent and Distrust
The Corcoran School of the Arts & Design’s class of 2016 had its graduation ceremony on May 14. The following week, more than half of the art school’s full-time faculty were told their contracts would not be renewed.
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Literary Paintings Inspired by a Fictional Poet
A freshman psych professor once described an experiment to my class wherein male turkeys were presented with realistic models of female turkeys, which the male turkeys promptly attempted to mate with.
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Deconstructing African American Identity into Axioms, Photos, and Colors
LONDON — Two things are true: Martine Syms likes both purple and words. As with her website and her publishing imprint Dominica, Syms’s exhibition Fact & Trouble at the Institute of Contemporary Arts is awash in the color purple: Royal purple C-stands, royal purple television monitors, and royal pur
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Upgrading a Traditional Javanese Instrument to Run on an Algorithm
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — We are a technology-obsessed culture.
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What Should We Do with New York’s Most Neglected World’s Fair Relic?
What will become of the derelict New York State Pavilion, a rusted Space Age relic of the 1964 World's Fair?
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Letting Go of the Distinction Between Figuration and Abstraction
LOS ANGELES — A Shape That Stands Up at Art + Practice (A+P) gallery, in partnership with the Hammer Museum, claims to “[examine] the space between figuration and abstraction” — a great starting point unless you have the sneaking suspicion that this space disappeared decades ago.
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Revisiting the Anti-Establishment Posturing of an Established Artist
Tucked into the corner of Marlborough Chelsea’s huge space sits Viewing Room, an exhibition of Stephen Kaltenbach’s work that expresses, in a variety of media, a very personal sort of art world pique.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Vito Acconci opens at MoMA PS1 (and any serious art-lover will want to see it), El Museo del Sures will document the stories of South Williamsburg, Ida Applebroog talks about her childhood, and much much more.
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A Permanent Village of Musical Architecture in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS — Towering pecans and live oaks shade a far corner of New Orlean's Bywater neighborhood which will soon be the permanent home of the Music Box Village, an installation of musical architecture organized by the New Orleans Airlift nonprofit.
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The Dicks We Grope to Get Ahead
A rock-climbing wall is covered with penises at the New Museum.
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Cannibalizing the Culture of Colonizers and Other Artistic Strategies
Someone once said to me that for him, one of the famous modernists, I think it was Paul Klee, represented the values of serious play. That idea lingered in cobwebbed corners of my mind until I walked into the Lehmann Maupin's downtown gallery to see Adriana Varejão’s Kindred Spirits when it flashed