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VENICE — “People say I’m extravagant because I want to be surrounded by beauty. But tell me, who wants to be surrounded by garbage?” infamously asked “Iron Butterfly” Imelda Marcos in the eponymous 2003 documentary Imelda.
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In 1870, 29-year-old British photographer Thomas Child moved to Peking — as Beijing was formerly known — to work as a gas engineer for the Imperial Maritime Customs Service.
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CAPE TOWN — In Black Passage, Nitegeka deploys wood and paint to literally and boldly take over the gallery, arranging his forms into the white, tamed, and profoundly coded space.
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Long before Photo Booth was a computer application, Jared Bark used analog photo booths in Times Square bars to create dazzling tiled black-and-white compositions.
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This is a rare exhibition, attempting to countermand the exoticism of central African civilizations that was historically impelled by the objects’ display in princely European cabinets of curiosities.
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Say you’re one of the countless artists in New York City struggling to find an affordable studio space.
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At the Paris studio of Auguste Rodin in 1906, Siberia-born American painter Abraham Walkowitz met modern dancer Isadora Duncan.
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DALLAS — While heterogeneous in form, cultural reference, and concept, the four exhibitions at the center of the Dallas Contemporary 2015 season openers stand together seamlessly.
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The title of Jim Shaw’s current retrospective at the New Museum, The End is Here, comes from the title of his first zine made in 1978, displayed in a vitrine on the first floor of the exhibition.
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Raphaëlle Martin has published a new set of Magritte-inspired animations that demonstrates how much more bizarre the Surrealist’s paintings can be when brought to life and played on a loop.
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Bring Your Own Body: Transgender Between Archives and Aesthetics illustrates not just the multiplicity of transgender identities but the many forms of expression those identities take.
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I don’t know about you, but I experience adulthood as an unremitting crisis of faith, and I look to art for examples of how to better think about what I’m doing.