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An LA Muralist on Preserving the Local History of Street Art
LOS ANGELES — Just east of the LA River runs Mission Road, an industrial street crammed with auto body shops and salvage operations.
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Digitally Deface Le Corbusier's Villa Savoye
Have you ever wanted to throw a piano or screeching cat at Le Corbusier's pristinely white 1931 Villa Savoye in France?
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In Acts of Resistance, Artists and Scholars Digitally Reconstruct the Past
In the past year alone, members of ISIS have marred cultural treasures in Iraq and Syria, taking sledgehammers and drills to statues at the Mosul Museum and delivering numerous blows to the ancient site of Palmyra, including its 1,800-year-old Arch of Triumph.
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Recreating the Magic Circle of a Surrealist Seriously into the Occult
Dressed in a crisp tuxedo, Swiss artist Kurt Seligmann stepped into a chalk circle lined with the names of archangels on the wood floor of his Manhattan apartment.
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Suspended Glass Sculptures Visualize Cities’ Population Booms
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — It might seem like a leap, using gorgeous studio glass objects to convey potentially alarming data about population growth, but Norwood Viviano pulls the two together very persuasively.
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Artist Thornton Dial, an American Genius, Dies at 87
It has been said that when gods fall, the earth shakes.
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A Performance Satirizes the Policing of Public Space
HOBART, Tasmania — She glared and said, “You don’t have a photo pass so get back behind the cones.”
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, in addition to the Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art Fair in Santa Monica, there are two independent art fairs happening, Dave Muller's peripatetic Three Day Weekend project, the chance to interact with Erwin Wurm's One Minute Sculptures, and more.
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The Spite House, an Architectural Phenomenon Built on Rage and Revenge
Spite houses are homes built on anger.
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Paris Department Store Kite Display Marks New Low for Ai Weiwei
PARIS — Like a good student of the bottomless pit of fashion, Ai Weiwei has delivered big on his latest class assignment.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is filled with openings and events that will get you thinking — about the Citi Bike as readymade, the role of the curator in artwashing, the way you eat and play, parenting in the art world, and more.
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Indian Artists Portray Bodies Pure and Profane
The well-known Delhi Art Gallery’s capacious new space in New York’s prestigious Fuller Building brings Indian modernists to a Western audience.