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Ding Dong, Death Calling: 1920s Tombstone Salesman Paintings
Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is showing a grid of 16 tombstone paintings created in 1929 by one E.B. Roberts in English, Indiana, for this itinerant trade.
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Digging Through Victorian Trash for Bone Toothbrushes and Broken Dolls
"Rubbish doesn't lie," explained Tom Licence, a senior lecturer in history at England's University of East Anglia who is behind What the Victorians Threw Away.
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The Disorienting Power of Al Held's Black-and-White Paintings
In 1967, the angel of ambiguity rescued Al Held from the burly heaviness of his body and the formalist ideology of his thinking.
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Tracing Tradition in a Survey of Six Iranian Artists
Felix Gonzalez-Torres once made the argument that all art is political, even an artist’s choice to focus on the purely aesthetic.
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A New Hong Kong Museum Confronts the Difficult History of Chinese Contemporary Art (Part 1)
HONG KONG — The M+ Sigg Collection, thought to be the most thorough and important collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world, consists of 1,510 art objects produced by 375 artists spanning 1974 to 2010.
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Connecting with Humanity in the Paris Catacombs
PARIS — We rarely experience the oceanic sensation of our bodies as continuous and equal with all other humans.
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Inside Florida's Swamp Buggy Racing Subculture
The distinctly Floridian tradition of swamp buggy racing is like a messier version of NASCAR.
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Florida, Bob Ross, and a Collaborative, Conceptual Art Journey
DETROIT — Painter and art instructor Bob Ross, host of the legendary public access show The Joy of Painting, was known to say, “There is no such thing as a mistake, only happy accidents.”
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Hyperallergic Instagram Commission: E.'s #ejanehype
Over the past 10 days, artist E. posted images and videos on Hyperallergic’s Instagram (@hyperallergic [https://www.instagram.com/hyperallergic/]) feed that focused on Black femme culture, cultural producers, and related critical discourses.
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Imagining the Possible Futures of Virtual Reality
“THE FUTURE IS NOW,” reads the header from the online bill for Versions: The Creative Landscape of Virtual Reality, a conference held earlier this month at the New Museum, co-presented by NEW INC and Kill Screen.
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A New Tool Maps the NYC Landmarks Near You
Last month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to recommend 30 of the sites from its backlog of nearly 100 as potential landmarks.
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Returning “Topless Cellist” Charlotte Moorman to Her Rightful Place in the Avant-Garde
EVANSTON, Ill. — A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s, currently on view at the Northwestern University’s Block Museum, is a masterful (if only slightly overwhelming) orchestration of original artworks and archival materials that examines the legacy of avant-g