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Taryn Simon Mines the Empty Aesthetics of Diplomacy
There’s a certain pomp necessary to reinforce the power of politics.
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Visualizing the Purrrsonal Data You Share with Your Cat Photos
For Owen Mundy, the internet's love of cats is a gateway to recognizing the huge amounts of personal data we share publicly on social media.
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The Deep-Rooted Expression of Ceramics
DETROIT — One does not, perhaps, consider ceramic objects to be immediately gendered, possess sexuality, or be particularly political.
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Astrological Aesthetics: March 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Trying on Gender with Self-Portraits and Props
Jürgen Klauke’s prop-filled, leather-punctuated photographs can stop you in your tracks.
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The Visual Music of a New York School Painter's Late Works
It was once a common notion that abstract painting was analogous to music.
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Altarpieces for the Digital Age
Enter Transfer gallery and your entire field of vision is instantly taken up by a vast screen, measuring 10 by 10 feet, nearly the width of the room.
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The Underexplored Histories of Modern and Contemporary Art in the United Arab Emirates
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates — In the words of French philosopher Jacques Derrida, “there is no political power without control of the archive, if not memory.”
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Space (or Iowa City) Is the Place: Inside the New Center for Afrofuturist Studies
Iowa City, a UNESCO City of Literature and home of the renowned Iowa Writers’ Workshop, has a thriving art scene. But, much like the rest of Iowa, this art scene is overwhelmingly, blindingly white.
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A Wiki for All the Internet's Bots
The internet is awash with bots.
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A Theater's 18th-Century Thunder Run Rumbles Once More
The thunderstorm in the third act of Shakespeare's King Lear will rumble ominously in the Bristol Old Vic's production of the play this summer thanks to 18th-century sound effects.
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Photochroms Capture Belle Époque Germany in Color
Whether it offers an image of a sun-drenched beach or a pristine ski slope, the picture-postcard has become a photographic genre unto itself, synonymous with escapist fantasy.