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The Asia Pacific Triennial Chooses the Margins as a Radical Space
BRISBANE, Australia — Suppressed voices, marginalized histories, and public spaces take center stage at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial.
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The Delicate and Daring Works of a Forgotten 17th-Century Japanese Painter
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the course of his career in the 17th century, the Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu produced a large body of intricate and decorative works on paper.
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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.