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A Portrait of a Chinese Ghost Town on the Verge of New Life
The district of Kangbashi in Inner Mongolia, China, is famous for its emptiness.
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The Hand-Mounted Photographs that Illustrated 19th-Century Books
Before the widespread use of photomechanical printing processes to illustrate books, original, hand-mounted photographs largely embellished the pages of printed matter.
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From Challenging Kant to Elevating Moss, an Artist Upends Hierarchies
MINNEAPOLIS — With just four shapes made out of crude line drawings, Andrea Büttner captures the essence of shame.
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Takashi Murakami's Art Collection Offers a Glimpse of His Personal Taste
Takashi Murakami's own work has filled the exhibition spaces of many a museum, but this month the Japanese artist's personal art collection will be unveiled to the public on a grand scale for the first time.
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A Survey of New Finnish Paintings Transcends Stereotypes
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Dark Days, Bright Nights, an exhibition of recent Finnish paintings curated by Barbara O'Brien for the Kemper Museum, is a stirring reminder of how culturally under-represented that nation remains even in the age of digitally networked globalization.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, a film series teaches you about Native American cinema, a postmodern choreographer mixes his archives live, the Outsider Art Fair opens its doors, and a pioneering cat photographer comes to town to sign books (at a cat cafe).
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Six West African Artists Mine the Material World
EAST LANSING, Mich — These objects contain a discernible power, one that can be used to seed connections between cultures a world apart.
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Rhode Island's Newest Gallery Champions Artists With Disabilities
The term “Outsider Art,” coined in 1972 by writer Roger Cardinal, has plenty of critics.
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Four Artworks for a Broken Time
ISTANBUL — “Broken times” are always periods of convoluted activity, of revolution, of transitions between religion and culture.
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Reassembling the Lost Library of a 16th-Century Magician Who Spoke to Angels
Scholar, Courtier, Magician: The Lost Library of John Dee opens today at the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) in London.
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A Show of Over 100 Women Artists Offers Redress but No Resolution
MIAMI — The exhibition of over 100 women artists currently on view at the Rubell Family Collection is difficult to review because the works do not all fit into the space and the decision was made to rotate them over the course of the show.
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Katherine Bradford Dives In
I certainly wasn’t the only person to be dazzled by Katherine Bradford’s breakthrough show, Desire for Transport, at Edward Thorp, nearly a decade ago.