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WASHINGTON, DC — Science fiction rose to prominence in the 19th and early 20th centuries, when authors like H. G. Wells, Jules Verne, and Mary Shelley imagined the extraordinary possibilities of advances in technology and exploration.
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DETROIT — Sometimes Minimalist artworks fit so perfectly into a market for objects featured in Dwell magazine spreads that one has to wonder if there is actually anything going on below their surface. But in the case of a new body of work by Brazilian artist Simone DeSousa, there is.
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LOS ANGELES — This week, new nonprofit PSSST opens with a series of events on SoCal Latino youth culture in the 1990s, a show of work from seminal Color School painter Sam Gilliam opens at David Kordansky, Andrea Bowers brings a body of labor-themed art to Susanne Vielmetter, and more.
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Julieta Aranda’s latest work on view at the James Fuentes gallery, has the patina of social significance and discernment.
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MILWAUKEE — As I look at this photograph of myself, lying flat with arms outstretched on the Carl Andre, I wonder about my violation of museum etiquette.
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This week, see current work by legendary choreographer Yvonne Rainer, write on an abandoned house on Governors Island, learn about the Art and Social Justice Working Group, and more.
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CHICAGO — Confessions of an arts writer: my background is in theater design.
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MOSCOW — There’s no hopelessness in Pavel Pepperstein’s work, no abandonment; there’s only laughter: the final laughter of those who have very little to protect them from the world.
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Decked out in red factory overalls, László Moholy-Nagy cut a striking figure of an avant-garde utopian during his time teaching at the Bauhaus in Dessau from 1923 to 1928.
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PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — The mapping and the drawing borders has been an especially violent and contested activity here for centuries.
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MOSCOW — If you were to go only by the types of exhibitions you see in Moscow galleries, you would get only a partial view of what’s happening in art in Russia.
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In his current exhibition, Membrana Porosa, at Cheim and Read, the artist’s first in New York since 2011, Juan Uslé shows fourteen paintings in the gallery’s four distinct spaces.