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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 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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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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MEXICO CITY — Chocolate is very versatile.
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“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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The clash of cheery colors with destructive scenes gives this artist's images a subversive, dissonant power.
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Number of surviving copies of the misprinted 1631 "Sinners' Bible" that demanded "Thou shalt commit adultery" = 10
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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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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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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.
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In 1968, Seth Siegelaub and John Wendler published the first edition of the so-called "Xerox Book." The untitled publication, which was conceived as an exhibition in itself — and is currently the subject of a show at Paula Cooper Gallery — is now considered a seminal artist book.
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LONDON — American director Abel Ferrara’s newest film documents the final 24 hours of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s life in an intelligent way, without rhetoric or prudery.