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A Three-Story Web Ensnares an Abandoned Building's Past Lives
PITTSBURGH — Inside 516 Sampsonia Way, a 19th-century row house in the Mexican War Streets neighborhood, there no longer appear to be any 90-degree angles.
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Reflections on My Great Aunt, an Artist Who Painted for No One but Herself
The week after her death, my family went to Great Aunt Afrodite's house to sort through her belongings, including hundreds of watercolors and sketches that none of us had ever seen before.
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The Artist Bringing Neon Icebergs to the Arctic Circle
ISTANBUL — Bahar Yürükoğlu makes icebergs bleed neon colors.
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Boston Artist Builds "Smallest House in the World," Rents It on Airbnb
By the logic of the tiny house movement, a whimsical architectural response to the housing crisis, tinier is better, right?
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A Murder Mystery Set in a Finnish Art Museum
HELSINKI — "In the final days of a damp, misty November, the body of a young woman is found in the icy embrace of the waters off Kaivopuisto Park."
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End of the Road: Matt Bollinger at Zürcher Gallery
In his third and best exhibition, Matt Bollinger: Independence, MO, at Zürcher Gallery, the artist continues to remember and invent aspects of his youth, family and friends, while growing up in and around Independence, Missouri, a suburb of Kansas City.
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Sexual Abstraction: Judy Ledgerwood’s Recent Paintings
If, as Amy Sillman has said, “The elephant in the room is sex,” Judy Ledgerwood’s paintings ask the viewer: What exactly do you think you are looking at?
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Hanne Darboven: Repetition
Hanne Darboven, though considered a visual artist, considered herself, first and foremost, a writer.
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Class Plus Sass: Bunny Rogers’ ‘Columbine Cafeteria’
Is art just war conducted by other means?
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Peace Beyond Words: ‘Tower of Babel’ at Schema Projects
The curatorial focus emphasizes the Genesis story's foundational position in the mythology of language. This is fitting for an exhibition that brings together artists whose diverse languages — and even alphabets — represent countries well-steeped in the history of making language visible.
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Paintings from Big Pink: Michael Gallagher’s ‘Hallucination Engine’
PHILADELPHIA – A few months back, in a review of Jan Baltzell's paintings, I discussed the slippage between representation and abstraction. In one painting, I thought I saw a thumb, and in another I was convinced George Washington’s head was hovering in the upper right corner. This was content the a
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Lessons in Gigantism: Richard Serra Makes It Work
And then there’s Richard Serra, whose double-gallery blowout at Gagosian is Exhibit A for material-intensity-meets-overwhelming-scale. There’s nothing else like it.