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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.
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The Macabre Practice of Binding Books in Human Skin
Skin from the thigh of an unfortunate Philadelphia woman felled by a parasitic infection delicately lines the spines of three books in the Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia.
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The Eerie Abandoned Dreams of Samara Golden
The current exhibition at Canada Gallery, A Fall of Corners by Samara Golden, leads the viewer up to the threshold and almost across into an enticing, dreamlike, and slightly askew dimension.
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Rubin Museum Opens Expanded Buddhist Shrine Room
Flickering light and faint sounds of chanting accompany the Rubin Museum of Art's expanded Tibetan Buddhist Shrine Room, where visitors to the Chelsea museum can pause in a space of contemplation.
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Considering Chocolate's Colonial History
MEXICO CITY — Chocolate is very versatile.
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A Hardworking, Sincere, and Studiously Inept Painter
“Josh Smith: Sculpture” is how the sign reads. Yet behind it is a conservatively installed exhibition of drawings, conventionally framed and tastefully spaced on Luhring Augustine’s neutral white walls.
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Rainbow Sherbert Collages of Calamity
The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 "Sinners' Bible" that demanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" = 10
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Intricate, Beautiful, Raunchy: Japan Embraces Its Ancient Erotic Print Tradition
Known as shunga ("spring pictures"), these highly erotic sexual scenes comprise a genre of their own, and an exhibition devoted entirely to them has opened for the first time in their country of origin.
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Synchronizing the Cycles of Capitalism and the Female Body
Sara Shaoul’s Strange Labor looks to expand our understanding of the self in the world by examining the interconnectedness of female body patterns and sociopolitical cycles.
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Praising the Scientific Contributions of Clergy Naturalists
Among the 18 million specimens in the oldest natural history museum in the United States are contributions from missionaries and ministers who practiced science alongside their faith.