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“For somewhere an old enmity exists between our life and that great work we do,” wrote Rainer Maria Rilke in “Requiem for a Friend,” a eulogy for painter Paula Modersohn-Becker, who died following childbirth at age 31.
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The Armory Show is thought of first and foremost as a venue for buying contemporary art, but on the fair's southern pier dealers quietly move Modern masterpieces worth millions.
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Somewhere after the 10th waving, severed arm that I added to my masterpiece in Super Sculptor!, my patron's response switched from joy to horror.
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There's often no rhyme or reason to the selection of art in individual booths at fairs — other than, of course, a gallery's aim to sell well.
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The jukebox is quiet and there's prosecco flowing, but anachronisms aside, Macon Reed's "Eulogy for the Dyke Bar" installation is a vibrant tribute to the disappearing lesbian bar.
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HONG KONG — Optimism is the new normal among artists from Myanmar, and with good reason.
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KALAMAZOO, Mich. — Jiha Moon’s colorful mixed-media works are in the collections of the Asia Society in New York and the Smithsonian's Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, among other US institutions.
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The sonic intentions of architecture are often lost over the centuries. In 2014, a team of researchers investigated the acoustics of Byzantine churches in Thessaloniki, Greece, to retrieve some of that design through sound mapping.
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On Tuesday, at the preview of the Spring/Break Art Show, a writer I know told me she'd been sent there on an assignment to cover the "little" fairs surrounding the Armory Show.
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What I saw when I stepped from the elevator and entered the hush of the Artists Space gallery was barely anything: a red raincoat on the wall, some honey-colored wood benches that looked as if they belonged in a courtroom, and some odd steel contraptions on the floor.
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The 2016 edition of the Armory Show art fair opens to the public tomorrow, but already during today's preview piers 92 and 94 were crawling with collectors, curators, and critics.
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The Museum of Chinese in America (MOCA) has created a wonderfully dense retrospective of Poy Gum Lee, a Chinatown native whose buildings still stand in Shanghai and New York City.