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Conservators Work to Open the Forbidden City’s Secret Garden to the Public
When China's last emperor departed Beijing's Forbidden City in 1924, the imperial palace was shuttered, and along with it, an 18th-century garden.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Manhattan's New Pyramid
It’s almost difficult to tell the story behind Via 57 West, the new Bjarke Ingels Group-designed residential high-rise now welcoming its first tenants on Manhattan’s west side.
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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is all about openings: of an unexpected David Hammons retrospective, an exhibition of socially engaged artists, a show of male nudes by female artists, and, after much anticipation, the Met Breuer.
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A Saudi Artist Reconstructs Her Father's Memories
DUBAI — “What happens to memories that have no stories?” the artist asks. “Do they get deleted? Do they just disappear?"
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Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
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Nine Mexican Women Fight Stereotypes in Their Printmaking
MINNEAPOLIS — Animals populate the prints on view at Sus Voces, a group exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring nine female Mexican printmakers working in traditional techniques.
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Stan Douglas Reimagines a Joseph Conrad Spy Novel in 1970s Portugal
LONDON — When I asked Douglas why he decided to shift Conrad’s novel to Portugal in 1975, he replied with a seemingly benevolent “Why not?”
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70 Years of Jules Feiffer's Expressive and Satiric Art
Out of Line: The Art of Jules Feiffer, a recent book by Martha Fay, now takes the cake for presenting "more Feiffers than have ever been discovered together in one spot before."
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When Was the Last Time You Thought About a Hookah-Smoking Caterpillar?
Elisa D’Arrigo is best known for her wall works in which the merging of sewing and repetition is a central feature.
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So Much Depends…
In 1952, Lois Dodd, along with four other artists, started the Tanager Gallery on East Fourth Street, near the Bowery, one of the first artist-run cooperative galleries in New York.
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MoMA’s New Japanese Architecture: A Vision for the Future That’s Already Here
What if modern architecture could do it all over again?