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Planting an Endless Fruit Orchard that Could Branch Around the World
What if the community garden was blown up to a national or even global scale, creating a huge, ever-growing network of edible flora tended by the public?
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In Paris, Andy Warhol's Works Are Shadows of Their Former Selves
PARIS — With electronic digital simulacra, there is no longer a spent nostalgia for natural semblance: Warholian reproducibility is the fundamental logic and code of our information society.
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Help Rebuild the University of Baghdad’s Destroyed Art Library, One Book at a Time
In 2003, during the invasion of Iraq, looters set fire to the library of the College of Fine Arts at the University of Baghdad. Seventy thousand books were reduced to ashes.
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Marilyn Minter's Dirty Visions of Foods, Faces, and Feet
DENVER — Marilyn Minter’s life’s work, four decades of which are brought together in Marilyn Minter: Pretty/Dirty at the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, presents the viewer with a Lacanian mirror.
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The Candid Poetry and Inclusive Politics of the Jakarta Biennale
JAKARTA — Located in a large warehouse in the south of town, the Jakarta Biennale 2015, titled Neither Forward nor Back, mixes works by Indonesian and international artists.
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Tracing Narratives in a Constellation of Art, Artifacts, and Texts
The week I visited Julie Ault’s new show, afterlife, at Galerie Buchholz, I also gave a talk at the Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) on poetry and the archive.
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By Turns Offensive and Transgressive: Philadelphia's Folk Art Mummers Parade
PHILADELPHIA — 2016 has not been a good year for the annual New Year’s Day Mummers Parade.
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Dealing with Death in an Evocative Game about Cancer
"We grieve in silence," game maker Ryan Green says at one point in That Dragon, Cancer, an interactive experience based on the illness and eventual death of his son, Joel.
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The Unclassifiable Art of Leonor Fini, a True Paris Bohemian
PARIS — Though once fêted as a glamorous Parisian queen of the libertine, bohemian art world, Leonor Fini (1907–96) has been sliding ever since toward obscurity.
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Growing a Garden According to the Economics of Philanthropic Crowdfunding
Every day, people around the world lend money to strangers through philanthropic crowdfunding platforms like Kiva and GlobalGiving.
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Gordon Parks’s Long-Forgotten Color Photographs of Everyday Segregation
When Life magazine sent Gordon Parks to document the daily lives of three black families living in Alabama, it was 1956, during the Montgomery bus boycott.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, apartment gallery Laurel Doody plays Terry Allen's 1975 "conceptual country" record Juarez, Embassy opens a massive show of artist books, a group exhibition at the Loft at Liz's focuses on African-American artists from Watts, and more.