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An Exhibition About Black Lives, with a Gendered Focus
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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J Dilla Gets Reanimated in a Video Collage
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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From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube
That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.
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A Sly Airbnb Homage to Marcel Broodthaers
Broodthaers was an artist who developed an inflammatory and unruly practice, playing with notions of expectation and frustrating them.
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Russia and Syria Use Palmyra as a Stage for Political Theater
Since its capture by ISIS in May of 2015, Palmyra has become a kind of archaeological fetish for the West.
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Wright Brothers' 1903 Flying Machine Patent, Lost for Decades, Will Go on Display
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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From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real
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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A Photo Exhibition About Israel and the West Bank that Chooses Sides
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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The Endangered Film Projectionists of the UK
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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Surveying Modern and Contemporary Art's Embrace of Ceramics
PARIS — Conversations about art and medium-specificity are almost always conversations about history.
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A Floating House that Responds to Its Environment
Since mid-April, an angular, wooden house floating atop steel pontoons has moored at three sites along the Thames Estuary, all the while monitoring local environmental conditions in this passage where the Thames meets the North Sea.
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The Disconcerting Beauty of an Artist's Nude Self-Portraits
Rowan Renee's highly personalized images offer an optimistic and curiously romantic glimpse into her secret world as she works through the long-term psychological trappings of incest, latent anger, and the ability to overcome adversity through telling her story.