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MEXICO CITY — Shards of glass protrude from the walls and the smell of cigarettes fill Anonymous Gallery for a solo show by Mexico City-based American artist Andrew Birk.
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This week, watch a performance of words describing women, learn about the state of LGBTQ rights in Ukraine, rethink domesticity with Rodney McMillan, and more.
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A huge, distorted skull appears like a slash across Hans Holbein the Younger's 1533 "The Ambassadors," and it's only when viewed from an angle that the death's head emerges from the painting in three dimensions. It's one of the most famous uses of anamorphosis, but how to communicate this unique ome
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Each whaling ship that departed the northeastern United States carried a logbook aboard, in which whale hunts, shipwrecks, weather conditions, and daily sailing life were recorded.
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BRIGHTON, UK — In an age of cuddly brands that want to be your friend, these products offer a chance to connect with real people, and the overall look echoes bustling market stalls rather than distant marketing brainstorms.
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HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Many women will happily tell you — if only you looked them in the eye instead of the chest — there is something deeply alienating about being reduced to one’s body parts.
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It takes a few minutes for the avian residents of Mark Dion's "The Library for the Birds of New York" to settle back into their chirping and fluttering after you've entered the giant cage and stepped below the strange white oak laden with books.
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In the treacherous Altai Mountains in the far reaches of western Mongolia, golden eagles build their nests high up on rock faces.
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This is not just an informative and enlightening show; it's also an important one, one that gets us to look at what, for some of us, is necessary to live in this particular time and place.
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Plimack Mangold’s floor and ruler paintings are smart, tough, assured, direct and, more than forty years after she did them, they remain challenging: works in which she literally and figuratively cleared a space for herself in ways that have yet to be fully recognized.
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I first saw Maria Bussmann’s work in a group exhibition at the James Nicholson Gallery in 2005, where she showed two very different sets of drawings.
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Last year, the African American Quilt Guild of Oakland (AAQGO) — a group of about 80 women who meet monthly at senior centers amid sheafs of fabric and spools of colorful thread — embarked on an ambitious project: They would create narrative quilts that told the complex social, political, and cultur