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LOS ANGELES — This week, performance artists Dynasty Handbag and Jaimie Warren get weird at El Cid, the Craft & Folk Art Museum hosts a workshop on painting on black velvet, the Museum of Contemporary Art brings music to its galleries, and more.
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For the next couple of months, a museum on wheels will roam through the crowded streets of Dharavi, a village in Mumbai home to about one million people packed across just 500 acres.
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Potions, poisons, and symbolic herbs are frequent plot devices in the plays of William Shakespeare, and reflect the medical knowledge of his time.
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Whether it’s the click of silver slippers or a gown of gold descending from the branches of a tree, fashion and clothing have a unique presence in fairy tales.
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This week, Cory Arcangel opens a new show starring a drum machine, psychoanalysts and writers dissect the horror classic Rosemary's Baby, the city celebrates Rare Book Week, and more.
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At the center of Smack Mellon’s Dumbo gallery, Gil Yefman’s knitted wrecking ball of genitalia and bodily fluids hangs from the ceiling.
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MARRAKESH — Set outside the institutional white cube, in restored ancient sites and the ruins of a 16th-century palace, the sixth edition of the Marrakech Biennale, Not New Now, arrives like a breath of fresh air.
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The "Positron" (1976–77) by Latvian artist Valdis Celms operated a bit like a disco ball, flashing various colors of light as the goliath metal orb rotated.
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You need to spend half an hour looking at each of these photographs to gather all of what's happening inside it.
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Minimalist abstraction of the 20th century often feels placeless. Tony Smith's angular, inky sculptures could have crawled out of a dimension void of organic life; Mark Rothko's repeating black canvases in a Houston chapel reflected the space's lack of specific religion.
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When Richard Pryor strode through an audience of fans and celebrities at the Hollywood Palladium on December 9, 1981, the comedian — always renowned for his candor and vulnerability — was exposed in an altogether new way.
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I first became aware of Carole Seborovski’s work in the mid-1980s, when she was a geometric artist working on paper with a restrained palette.