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A Public Display of Our Private Belongings
MINNEAPOLIS — On my first visit to Emmett Ramstad’s Touching Each Other exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), I completely missed the pubic hair.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Beijing artist Cao Fei gets her first US solo show, New York's biggest independent comics festival sets up its tables, a lecture considers Sun Ra's radical take on time, and more.
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An Indoor Forest Where a Massive Head Waits in the Water
The first sensation visitors to Anima at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn experience is disorientation, as they walk through a dark tunnel made from scraps of wood that seem pulled together by a vortex.
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A Photographer Documents the Fantasy World of Six Shut-In Brothers
For 14 years, the six Angulo brothers were locked away from society in a Lower East Side housing project.
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Using Cameras to Commune with Nature
Without being heavy handed, Tegg’s exhibition reminds us that this connection to the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) is integral to our survival, at least for as long as we require bodies to function in the physical world.
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The Indefatigable Curiosity of Norman Lewis
PHILADELPHIA — While teaching at Jefferson School of the Social Sciences in New York around 1949, Norman Lewis began to draft an artist’s treatise in which he laid out his teaching theories, and, more intriguingly, his ideas about the role an artist should play in society.
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Visually Mining the History of Guano Off the Coast of Peru
In the mid-19th century, the Chincha Islands were at the center of a now-forgotten resource war that involved major world powers.
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Fresh Geometry: Gary Stephan and Alina Tenser
You know something is going on when you stare at work hanging on one wall and forget to look at what is on the gallery’s other three walls.
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Why David Hammons Might Find It Necessary to Be Elusive and Difficult
Many writers – including, most recently, Peter Schjeldahl in the venerable magazine, The New Yorker – have characterized David Hammons as “elusive” and “difficult.” According to Schjeldahl: “The artist spoke with me, bracingly and delightfully, for a column in this magazine, in 2002. He wouldn’t do
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Paint Is the Language of God: The Gospel According to Gustave Moreau
What’s Gustave Moreau doing hanging out with John Currin, Wade Guyton, and Damien Hirst?
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Space, Containment, and the Realms of Existence: Berlinde De Bruyckere at Hauser & Wirth
The experience of De Bruyckere’s work is not unlike confronting monumental works of Minimalism, such as Richard Serra’s leaning or torqued sculptures, which create a sense of unease and endangerment within the gallery space.
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Take Me to the River: William Buchina’s Redemption Paintings
Buchina keeps us guessing without falling into obscurantist traps, if for no other reason than the horror he depicts is steadily being eclipsed by the horror of actual events.