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Combing Through the Hegemony of Hair
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sonya Clark is all about hair.
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A Sobering 360-Degree Video Visualization of Climate Change Data
Unless you’re living under a global warming-denying rock, you’ve probably heard lots of apocalyptic data related to climate change.
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Using Art and Archives to Map Out Turkey’s Recent Past
ISTANBUL — “Diyarbakır is under martial law. It is the most important city in Kurdistan. With its 250,000 citizens, it seems as if pacification has been imposed successfully. The army is omnipresent, but the monitoring seems to have loosened […].”
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A Bill Murray Art Exhibit as Odd and Inscrutable as the Actor Himself
On view at BALTIC center for contemporary art in Gateshead, UK, BILL MURRAY: a story of distance, size and sincerity explores what British artist Brian Griffiths calls the actor’s “Murray-ness.”
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Art That Forces Us to Face the Cruelty of the Human Animal
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The disclaimer “No animals were harmed in the making of this film” is something films like to let you know when it appears that some animals may have been harmed in the movie’s making.
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Korea’s Monochrome Painting Movement Is Having a New York Moment
The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century
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At Art Basel Miami Beach, Measuring a Calder Against a Raven
MIAMI BEACH — Aviator Charles Lindbergh is quoted as saying "that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
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Sussing Out the Good Stuff at Art on Paper and Miami Project
MIAMI BEACH — The Deauville Beach Resort has been the home of the NADA art fair since 2009, but times change.
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Aestheticizing the Reality of a Polluted River
Originating in the Himalayas, the Yamuna river flows through New Delhi and accounts for more than 70% of the city’s water supply.
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At Pulse Miami Beach, Plants, Plants Everywhere
MIAMI BEACH — Perhaps it's because we're near the tropics or in palm tree central, but whatever the reason, the galleries participating in this year's Pulse Miami Beach fair are showing a generous selection of botany-focused works.
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Dreamlike Drawings in a Cavernous Coal Chamber
MEMPHIS — Down in a former coal chamber, accessed through a stained glass restoration studio, is Tops Gallery.
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A Photographer Documents the Medication Generation
While teaching a photography workshop to American students in Paris in 2008, French photojournalist Baptiste Lignel was shocked to learn that roughly half of the students in his class were taking some kind of prescription psychiatric medication.