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An Army of Artists Draws Batman
There are few fictional characters that can be evoked through just a symbol, but Batman is one of them, with the outline of his flying namesake, or a suggestion of the crime fighter's black mask.
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Looking to the Future Through the Traumas of the Past
Works from Cambodia, Indonesia, Myanmar, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam are linked by their use of tactile objects to illuminate the terrors of political exigencies and trauma from martial law.
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Sugar Castles and Suckling Pig Arches: The Edible Arrangements of Baroque Europe
In early modern Europe, the art of food presentation went well beyond plating.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, don't miss a museum retrospective for Martin Wong, festivals devoted to comics and text-sound poetry, a Gordon Parks photo series about segregation, and much more.
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For First Public Project in the UK, Theaster Gates Builds a Sanctuary in a Bombed-Out Church
BRISTOL, UK — On Saturday night here, in a concert hall whose former life as a church moved him to sing hymns, artist Theaster Gates gave a site-specific performance that brought many audience members to tears and prompted others to walk out.
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An Artist Sends Himself Wandering Through an Imaginary City
MINNEAPOLIS — Italian artist Paolo Ventura summons you into a world that’s both bleak and curious, filled with intrigue, loss, and magic.
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Erasing the US–Mexico Border Fence
LOS ANGELES — “If a color cannot cure, can it at least incite hope?” writer Maggie Nelson asks in Bluets, a series of prose poems about the color blue.
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Do Your DEMOcratic Duty and Vote for Your Favorite 2015 Critical Halloween Costume
The polls are now open!
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Formal and Furious Landscapes
HUDSON, NY — All 12 of Ying Li's furiously brushed, vibrantly hued landscapes look to have been produced by a cathartic burst of energy.
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A Digital Fossil Finder for a New Crowdsourced Age of Archaeology
High-resolution aerial images captured by kites and drones could reveal hidden fossils in northern Kenya's Turkana Basin, where the high temperatures and uneven terrain makes on-the-ground archaeology difficult.
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Rediscovering Bill Viola's Forgotten, Resonant Sound Compositions
LONDON — To better understand these early, rarely exhibited sound works, visitors have to go back in time.
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Tic-Tac-Toe at the End of the World
PHILADELPHIA — As I walked through the Dufala Brothers new show, Waste Dreams, currently on view at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, I had the feeling of a dream in which I seemed to recognize everything, but none of the dimensions were right and nothing could be used for its intended pu