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Before Jake Berthot became a painter, he was ridiculed by high school peers for an unorthodox answer he once gave in class. Berthot’s teacher rescued him by saying that the response he’d given made its own kind of sense because the young man was a poet.
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The first picture that caught me up short was “Factory Smoke” (1877–79), hanging alone on a freestanding wall in the middle of the gallery.
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With bursts of neon cones and discs against a black void, clips from graphic artist MELTMIRROR's newest music video suggest what Kandinsky might've come up with had he been able to experiment with 3D modeling.
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A photographer myself, I go to the Photography Show for the same reason I go to any exhibition: to learn.
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SAVANNAH, Georgia — Contrary to his gentle voice and friendly manner, Lavar Munroe’s first U.S. museum exhibition is filled with grotesque half-animal, half-human figures wielding hostile gloves and knives like predators.
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PORTLAND, Ore. — If you type the words “Native American” into Google image search, the majority of the results will be Edward Curtis photographs
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Elisabeth Hase documented Germany's transition from the Weimar Republic to the Third Reich and its postwar devastation.
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Before she even appears in the 1944 film noir classic Laura, Laura Hunt is an obsession for the hardboiled police detective, who is mesmerized with the supposedly dead woman through her portrait.
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Fischli and Weiss's sprawling retrospective creates a viewing experience that is funny, frustrating, belabored, and, ultimately, I think, productively unsettling.
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"For the last 15 years, I've been trying to solve the human," artist Chico MacMurtrie explained, surrounded by the mechanical beings which he's animated with metal and air in this quest to give his sculptures life.
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Depicting in great detail fiery rashes, scabs resembling igneous rocks, and inflamed skin patterns spread out like archipelagos, the pages of dermatological texts may make your skin crawl.
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Lieve Oma is a game in which you hunt for mushrooms with your grandmother beneath trees saturated with autumnal colors. It's also about how a simple conversation can indicate so much more about a relationship, where the words unsaid echo as much as those spoken aloud.