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A Curatorial Project Explores What It Means to Organize Your Own Community
PHILADELPHIA — What’s the best way to engage a person in caring for someone different from him/herself?
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Brooklyn Museum’s Activist Art Show Is a Messy Collision of Curation and Politics
Agitprop! ought to be an outstanding exhibition of politically engaged art. A feverish amalgam of historic and contemporary artwork, the exhibition is undermined by an ambitious but poorly executed curatorial strategy.
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The 19th-Century Lady Who Used Audubon's Birds for Wallpaper
In 1827, when Lady Isabella Hertford finally installed the hand-painted Chinese wallpaper the Prince of Wales had gifted her two decades earlier, she thought it didn't have enough pizzazz for her drawing room at Temple Newsam in Leeds, England.
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Psychedelic Micrographs Illuminate the Structures of Cells
Today’s micrographs depict the minute cellular structures that comprise living things, from cotton plants to algae blooms, in dazzling detail and vibrant color.
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In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the fourth LA Art Book Fair opens at the Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Cinefamily screens a love-themed sound poem, an artist installs a library on a lake, and more.
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After Exile, an Artist Confronts the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Azzam gives each work an overarching sense of incompleteness, a longing for a place to which one can never return.
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Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.
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An Art Collector’s Dream of a String of Caribbean Museums Starts in Flatbush
It’s a long subway ride from Manhattan’s Upper East Side — where some of the world’s most ornate apartment buildings stand amid a gulch of world-class cultural institutions — to the Brooklyn neighborhood of Flatbush, where the Philip Howard Apartments loom over the patchwork of new commercial real e
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Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory
CURITIBA, Brazil — Despite Polaroid having officially discontinued its product in 2008, it has resisted extinction.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, two performance artists channel Sarah Palin and Donald Trump, art critics do their thing live, an artist demonstrates his homemade musical instruments, and much more.
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Take a Bite Out of Modernism with MoMA's 1988 Architecture Cookie Cutters
Which modern architecture icon makes a better cookie, Eero Saarinen's sleek TWA Terminal or Frank Lloyd Wright's spiraling Guggenheim Museum?