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The Dark, Enchanted Worlds of Illustrator Kay Nielsen
Whether or not you know it, you’ve probably seen Danish illustrator Kay Nielsen’s work before.
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Reckoning with Pop Art's Irrepressible Popularity
CHICAGO — Three major exhibitions devoted to Pop art that opened last year broadened the purview of this movement as a primarily Western (American) phenomenon by unearthing lesser-known artists to provide a global view of art in the 1960s and ‘70s.
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What Will You Do About Chris Killip’s Challenge?
Chris Killip is a photographer who is deeply concerned with family and community.
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The Disappearers
What happens when one’s language is not heard? Or heard, but not recognized? When one’s speech carries within it holes of silences: hesitations, pauses, caesuras, stutters, and apprehensions?
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Cultural Differences Between East and West, Reduced to Pictograms
When graphic designer Yang Liu moved from Beijing to Berlin at age 13, she found herself in culture shock.
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Previously Unpublished Pics of Picasso in His Studio
Rare, previously unpublished photographs of Pablo Picasso in his studio are now on view in Paris, offering intimate views of the artist in several of his French ateliers.
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What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?
BOSTON — I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn’t think about anything other than death.
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The First Museum Retrospective for a Video Game Artist Explores Why the Medium Matters
Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
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The Freeform Scribbles that Give Rise to Frank Gehry's Buildings
In an episode of the animated television series Arthur, Frank Gehry makes a surprise appearance, announcing that he's been hired to design a new art gallery in the fictitious Elwood City.
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Museums Make Space for Public Programs on Stoops and in Parks
Examples of this trend can be seen at several major New York art institutions. Three in particular are exemplary: BRIC, Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum.
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Tracking Artists' Expeditions, from Glacier Surveys to a Search for Nixon's Missing Moon Rocks
Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome.
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Updating Fragonard with an Indigenous Perspective
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Scroll quickly enough past a photograph of Kent Monkman’s new installation, “Scent of a Beaver,” at the University of Michigan’s Institute for the Humanities, and you might mistake it for a painting.