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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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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.
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I Can’t Breathe, now on view at the Art Gallery at the College of Staten Island, is a dissonant show.
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After a decade of anticipation, The Diary, a long-lost solo album by late hip-hop legend J Dilla, was released last month.
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That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.
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Broodthaers was an artist who developed an inflammatory and unruly practice, playing with notions of expectation and frustrating them.
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Since its capture by ISIS in May of 2015, Palmyra has become a kind of archaeological fetish for the West.
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After a mysterious and lengthy disappearance, the historic patent documents for the Wright Brothers' groundbreaking flying machine have finally resurfaced and are now at home in the National Archives and Records Administration.
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LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”
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On the heels of last Saturday’s protest at the Brooklyn Museum, a more careful examination of one of the two exhibitions targeted by the protesters is in order.
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In The Projectionists, photographer Richard Nicholson documents the people who work the reels at the few movie theaters in England that remain faithful to old-school methods.
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PARIS — Conversations about art and medium-specificity are almost always conversations about history.