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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.
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Photojournalist Steve McCurry's Romanticized Visions of India
American Magnum photographer Steve McCurry, best known for his 1984 photograph of an Afghan refugee with piercing green eyes (Sharbat Gula), is one of the most celebrated photojournalists of our time.
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The Design for 2 WTC and the Dangers of Building Neighborhoods in the Sky
It’s one thing for an architect to invoke a low-rise historic neighborhood on the mega-scale of a high-rise office tower, but it’s quite another to imagine that an office building can actually embody the authentic neighborhood that surrounds it — and not merely the spectacular simulation of said nei
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Images of and Garments for “Plus-Size” Women, Across Four Centuries
When you think of representations of full-figured women throughout history, works by Rubens or Botero may immediately come to mind.
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Bangladeshi Photographers Capture the Fallout from Their Country's Globalization
Transitions: New Photography from Bangladesh, a collaboration between the Bangladeshi American Creative Collective and the Bronx Museum of the Arts, offers a dark view of the forces of industrial production and globalization at work in contemporary Bangladesh.
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A Coming-of-Age Tale Set Amid Miami’s Delicate Ecology
MIAMI — There is a wordy, massive disclaimer at the beginning of director Terence Nance’s recent short film, “Swimming in Your Skin Again.”
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Pop Irony’s Enduring Influence in the Art Institute of Chicago's New Contemporary Collection
CHICAGO — The Modern Wing of the Art Institute of Chicago, which opened in 2009, has reinstated its contemporary collection after giving over most of the space in 2015 to a much-lauded retrospective of the American sculptor Charles Ray.
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Janet Fish's Jarring Experiments in Still Life Painting
Among several modes enthusiastically adopted by painters in the last century, spontaneity is still held in the highest regard.
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How Five American Indian Dancers Transformed Ballet in the 20th Century
Five dancers who started their careers in the 1940s redefined dance in the United States, becoming some of the first American prima ballerinas in the world's top companies, from the Ballets Russes to the Paris Opera Ballet.
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Imagining the Inner Lives of Animals
LOS ANGELES — During a recent visit to Japan, I happened upon one of its novelty animal cafés, one specializing in owls.
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A Photographer Documents the Struggles of Refugees in Lesbos, Greece
“Is this Europe?” That’s the question German photographer Kai Löffelbein heard again and again from refugees landing on the island of Lesbos, Greece this past fall.