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Playing Back 50 Years of Video Art
EAST LANSING, Mich. — As digital and web-based forms of dissemination have competed with video art, what is left to distinguish it as a standalone genre?
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Artists Buy Trump Campaign Bus on Craigslist, Turn It Into Anti-Trump Art Project
Late last year David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic, cofounders of politically minded art collective T. Rutt, learned via Rachel Maddow that a Donald Trump campaign bus was up for sale on Craigslist in Des Moines, Iowa.
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Could NYC's Island of the Dead Become a Green Burial Park?
Each year, hundreds of New Yorkers are buried in trenches dug deep in the soil of Hart Island, a sliver of forgotten land in the Long Island Sound off the eastern shore of the Bronx.
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Singapore’s New National Gallery Dubiously Rewrites Southeast Asian Art History
SINGAPORE — The National Gallery Singapore (NGS) opened on November 25, 2015 — a high point in Singapore's year-round celebrations of 50 years as an independent nation.
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A Many-Splendored Ode to the Dodo
Absurdity and loneliness embrace each other in David Beck’s diminutive, meticulously detailed dioramas.
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Resisting Totality: The Paintings of Zhu Jinshi
A precocious youth forced to work in a factory during the Cultural Revolution, the painter Zhu Jinshi afterwards joined the seminal new art group the Stars (星星), producing works that dabbled in the imported medium of abstraction.
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Discourse, Dazzle, and Snap: Jonathan Lasker’s New Paintings
Jonathan Lasker’s approach to painting hasn't changed materially in decades, and so why would his work, which struck me as an alienating (if not irritating) closed system when I first started looking at it in the 1990s, now feel so open, urgent, and fresh?
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Highlighting the Invisible Labor of Art Objects
The tension between design and art derives from the utility ascribed to the former vying with the elusiveness that characterizes the latter.
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After Almost 50 Years, an African Arts Journal Adapts to Survive
Although there are grants — and generous individuals — out there in the world of academia ready to support scholarly publishing, funding an academic journal, from its creation to production to ultimate dissemination, is often still a challenge.
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Moving Forwards and Backwards in Time with ‘The Shining’
Picked apart and poured over by a confederacy of film-obsessed mavens with keen eyes and airtight attention spans, Stanley Kubrick’s opus The Shining (1980) has proven remarkably fecund over its 36-year lifetime.
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At Harlem’s First Children’s Museum, Artworks Strike Up Conversations
In October 2015 the first children’s museum in Harlem opened its doors.
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Queering the Feminine Through a Many-Layered Lens
Liss LaFleur’s work is at once in your face and delicate, choosing a mode of seduction that utilizes pastiche to lure the viewer in with a hint of familiarity — then jolting them into a world that questions the status quo.