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Public Art in Philadelphia Tells the Stories of the Undocumented
Throughout Philadelphia, for the rest of the month, one may now stumble upon and listen to the stories of undocumented families whose lives were affected by deportations.
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Chasing Ghosts Through Bathhouses and Cisterns at the 14th Istanbul Biennial
ISTANBUL — Caroline Christov-Bakargiev’s highly anticipated Istanbul Biennial, SALTWATER, A Theory of Thought Forms, is not exactly a straightforward affair.
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Sum of the Arts
Years Edgar Degas's "L'Absinthe" (1876) was hidden from view after a terrible critical reception = 16
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Artists Bisect the US-Mexico Border Fence with Balloons
DOUGLAS, Ariz. — I’m sitting in the back of a flatbed pickup truck, rattling slowly along a curving dirt road on the edge of Arizona as it winds its way towards Mexico.
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Seamless Digital Collages Capture Europe's Church Façades
For his photo series FACADES, which portrays Europe's old religious structures head-on, from top to bottom, German artist Markus Brunetti strips these sites bare of any distracting elements.
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Finding Fulfillment in Images of Empty White Rooms
PARIS — The silence of Seton Smith was significant.
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From Porn to Pizza, Some Postinternet Art Is Deeper Than It Looks
BERLIN — Much has been made of the banality of the apparent thematic interests in the show: porn, pets, plants, and pizza. What seems to have been overlooked in much of the coverage of the exhibition, however, is that this ironic superficiality is just a veneer.
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Contemporary Takes on China’s Oldest Painting Technique
DENVER — Do viewers outside of China still expect contemporary Chinese art to "look" Chinese, and what does that even mean?
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Two Exhibitions Showcase the Bloody Relics of Hermann Nitsch’s Rituals
Viewers may have seen similar Nitsch installations before, but it is important to re-experience his work, much of which has been long misunderstood by an art world dominated by political theory and formalism.
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Death Row Inmates Imagine Their Own Memorials
From a certain angle, the premise seems almost cruel: invite prisoners on death row to design their own memorials — ways for them to be remembered after they've been executed.
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Two Ceramicists Craft Domestic Intricacies
Whether it is Clemo, with his violated use objects, or Williams, investing painstaking traditional labor into a multitude of simple, decorative forms, both artists are making strong contributions within the continuum of contemporary ceramics.
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Finding Our Way Amid the Modern Fatalism of Circuit Boards
Elias Sime’s installations at James Cohan Gallery are visually impressive, but more than that, they are brilliant in their capacity to accomplish several things at once.