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Campers, Sunsets, and Junkyards: Sarah Braman’s Containers of Light
I'd call Sarah Braman's show at Mitchell-Innes & Nash a breakthrough were it not for her slow and steady ascent.
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Elise Ansel’s Ab-Ex Annunciation
The stated goal of New York City-born, Portland, Maine-based painter Elise Ansel is “re-creating, re-visioning, and re-presenting” paintings from the past.
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Dissections of Desire: Jonathan Lyndon Chase’s ‘Rosebud’
Chase, who is black and queer, shows the power of his subjects by exposing just how vulnerable they are.
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Fearless Symmetries: Judith Braun’s Carbon-Based Art Forms
The unclassifiable drawings of Judith Braun are now on view in two concurrent, very different solo exhibitions.
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Astrological Aesthetics: April 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Minimal, Alienating Works That Aren’t Blind to Tradition
In an alley between Greene Naftali gallery and a walled parking lot under the High Line, sit two Haegue Yang installations.
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Holdouts: The Solitary Resisters of Real Estate
For all his money and power, Donald Trump couldn't force a widow from her New Jersey home back in the 1990s.
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An Artist Paints Hopeful Portraits of Palestinians on Cactus Pads
The sabra, a fruit-bearing cactus, holds particular symbolism in both Israel and Palestine, where it grows wild across the region: it survives in all weather conditions, rugged on the outside but soft and sweet on the inside.
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Creating a Puppet Documentary for the Count Who Loved a Corpse
The fact that he slept for seven years with the corpse of a woman he loved is, for filmmaker Ronni Thomas, one of the least interesting things about Count von Cosel.
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The Mug Shot’s Origins in Debunked 19th-Century Science
French criminologist Alphonse Bertillon believed each person's physical measurements were as distinct as their fingerprints, and devised the first modern mug shots as part of his classification system in the 19th century.
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18th-Century Odes to a Cat that Drowned in a Goldfish Bowl
A cat that fell into a goldfish bowl in 1747 and subsequently drowned from her pyrrhic hunt inspired an unlikely series of artworks in the 18th century.
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How Modern Gardens and Painting Developed in Tandem
LONDON — In 2015 the Royal Academy of Arts faced a critical backlash against its last major painting blockbuster, Rubens and His Legacy, which featured very little Rubens and an awful lot of tenuous filler. Thank goodness, then, that the museum is back on track with its new survey, Painting the Mode