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The Political Art of Alicia Grullón
Like the food on our supermarket shelves, public artworks appear to us with their history of labor relations mostly obscured.
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All Blacks Are Matte
The still life photographs of Lakshmi Luthra, currently showing in Poly at Sushi Bar Gallery in Brooklyn with the work of Jonathan Bruce Williams, could have been shot on the floor of an abandoned department store, somewhere on the border between the Intimates and Electronics departments.
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A Community Maintains Its Monument
Of all the celebrated structures in the United States, the San Francisco de Asis Mission Church in Ranchos de Taos, New Mexico, is arguably the humblest.
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The Formation of Georgia O’Keeffe
In 1916, Georgia O’Keeffe landed a job teaching art at West Texas State Normal College (now West Texas A&M) and moved to a town called Canyon.
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Call This Psychedelic Video's Hotline to Hear "A Special Message from the Astral Gem"
For a good time, call 1-844-ASTRAL LOANS: Staticky smooth jams and a silky-voiced robot will welcome you to “The Caged Pillows Feeling Network.”
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Meditation, Improv, Forced Chuckling, and More at a Gallery Sleepover
CHICAGO — I bend my head down, eyes shut tight, and reach my hands up over my head towards the center of the circle.
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The Many Lives and Losses of the Western Hemisphere's Oldest Museum
BALTIMORE — Most contemporary art museums operate in service of the art they exhibit, the setting playing a secondary role to artists’ intentions.
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Personal Anxieties and Institutional Strictures Rendered in Wire and String
With a dark humor that partially stems from her youth in the former Czechoslovakia, Kot'átková explores the private self within institutional and ideological constructs.
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How User-Friendly Are Museum Image Rights?
If you've ever considered downloading a digital image of an artwork from a museum's website, you probably know rather well that the world of copyright is an incredibly murky and difficult one to navigate.
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The Incredible Electric Eric: Rebuilding a Lost 1920s British Robot
By all accounts, the debut of the UK's first humanoid robot was a startling affair.
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A Memorial to Hollywood Star Hedy Lamarr, a Founding Mother of Modern Tech
If you’ve heard of Hedy Lamarr, it’s probably in connection to her dramatic and scandal-laden career as a Hollywood film actress of the 1930s and ‘40s.
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On One Block in Chelsea, Three Monumental Installations Empower and Overpower
In a small, über-blue chip stretch of 21st Street in Chelsea, three adjacent galleries are concurrently running exhibitions that feature a series of monumental art pieces that move between refined, processed, man-made materiality to earthen structures, and plant life that grows from the soil.