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Aristotelians and logical positivists alike have had a field day speculating about the related phenomena of sight, perception, and truth, but what about the revelations one may glean through the unsinkable, old-fashioned medium of elastic, luminous paint?
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William Buchina’s disquieting, enigmatic, and prodigiously complex paintings are one artist’s answer to the relentless media barrage that defines our visual culture, counteracting its torrent of images with a seemingly inexhaustible barrage of his own.
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At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
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DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.
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Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.
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PARIS — I first encountered Henry Darger’s doggedly private, colored drawings depicting his opulent fantasy world at the 1997 The Unreality Of Being show at the Museum of American Folk Art.
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Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) = 20
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Today, archivists across the US took to Twitter to answer questions from the public.
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This past summer photographer Matt Black covered 18,000 miles of the poorest places in the United States.
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In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Kimono Wednesdays" controversy, we'd like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.
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The artist Eric Fischl once called Amy Myers’s abstract drawings “totems to Cosmic Sexuality.”
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While the pomp around Pope Francis's United States tour recedes, the Library of Congress is marking one lasting legacy with a rare bible given in honor of his visit.