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In Kochi, India, a Biennial Makes Room for Reimagining the Region
NEW DELHI — The Kochi-Muziris Biennale (KMB) launched in 2012 and has distinguished itself by the scale of its ambition.
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Artist Mel Chin Proposes a Solar Currency for the Sahara
ALBUQUERQUE — Mel Chin’s “The Potential Project,” represented by an installation at 516 Arts, embodies the teetering ambiguities of “first world” philanthropy.
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Something Old, Something New: An Exhibition Weds Technologies of Yesterday and Today
Walking into Central Booking on Ludlow Street is a little like entering a full-sized wunderkabinett.
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At the Heidelberg Project’s New Gallery, an Artist Grows Paper Facsimiles of Wilderness
DETROIT — Seeking to capitalize on the steadily growing interest in the Heidelberg Project, Guyton has taken steps to broaden its relevance and extend some of its notoriety in the direction of other emerging artists.
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Historical Angry Birds: Remixed "Peacock Room" Highlights Old Feud
WASHINGTON, DC — Waterston's work closely recreates Whistler's elegant chamber, but remixed into wreckage to express Whistler and Leyland's friendship, which disintegrated once Leyland laid eyes on Whistler's work.
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A Photographer Captures the Last Remaining Navajo Trading Posts
Trading posts first cropped up in 1870, two years after the Navajo treaty with the US government.
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Films That Train Their Lenses on a Media-Saturated Argentina
These works from Argentina explore the effects of living in a media-saturated world, but a theme as general as "media" can erase the specifics of a country's identity.
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Extreme Abstraction: A Brief Introduction to Martin Barré’s Cosmogony
Some abstract painters are harder to fathom than others. In fact a few of them seem quite hopelessly indecipherable. A case in point is French painter Martin Barré (1924-1996), who has been receiving increasing and well-deserved attention in New York these past ten years.
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Alberto Burri’s Challenge
The exhibition Alberto Burri: The Trauma of Painting, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, is the first large-scale survey of this artist’s work in America since the museum’s previous survey in 1978.
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A Beautiful Monster Reborn: Francis Picabia in the Windy City
CHICAGO — “Paintings are made for dentists.” So goes one of the many acerbic lines in artist Francis Picabia’s freewheeling poems.
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In Martha Wilson’s New Photo Works, Feminism Meets the Absurd
What do women want?
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“Insanity, Chaos, Weirdness”: Gregory Gillespie’s Solitary Path
When I left Gregory Gillespie: rorschaching at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects on the Lower East Side, I decided to leave it alone.