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ArtRx NYC
We advise you to close out summer the best way New York knows how: with film screenings.
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A Midcentury Manhattan Mosaic Returns to Public View
A midcentury mosaic forgotten for years beneath metal paneling on a Midtown Manhattan office building is now restored and on permanent public view.
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When the Whole World Spoke Pop
MINNEAPOLIS — We do not know what we do not know. That is precisely what the Walker Art Center’s exhibition International Pop makes clear — how much, heretofore, we did not know about the scope and practice of Pop art.
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Getting the Dirt: New Perspectives on Trash in New York City
Written nearly a decade before she was appointed artist-in-residence at the New York Department of Sanitation in 1976, Mierle Laderman Ukeles’s “Manifesto for Maintenance Art 1969!” points at a basic disconnect between concept and reality.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Poetics of the Cat Video
Cats in general, and cat videos in particular, appear to test, and sometimes to confirm, familiar ideas about the essence of art.
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A Lifetime of Sketchbooks from Postwar Painter Richard Diebenkorn
Bay Area artist Richard Diebenkorn kept sketchbooks for his entire career; they served as a sort of nomadic studio where he experimented with visuals that bridged figurative and abstract ideas.
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Hollywood, Texas: The Movie Myths of Hubbard/Birchler
HOUSTON — The exhibition’s name – Sound Speed Marker – gets at the essence of Austin-based artist-duo Hubbard/Birchler’s work. As moving-image artists, Dubliner Teresa Hubbard and the Swiss Alexander Birchler make self-reflexive film: film about the elements of film.
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I Is an Other: The Mail Art of Ray Johnson
Ray Johnson disappeared near Sag Harbor just over twenty years ago. But if we refer to the artist by the art, he’s still among us.
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Going Meta: Art after the Death of Art
Terminology is slippery, and using it as the premise for an exhibition can be slipperier still. But the concept underlying Metamodern, a group show at Denny Gallery on the Lower East Side, actually holds the potential to enrich an already strong array of works with a few additional, if speculative,
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8 Hours at the Guggenheim's 24-Hour Party
Every party has a life cycle.
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Carnival Rides Spun into Abstraction
You haven’t really seen a ferris wheel until you’ve seen one photographed by Roger Vail.
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Jesus Looks Like a Lady: A Female Baroque Artist’s Mystical Vision
LISBON — Even as she was the subject of the exhibition The Sacred and the Profane in 1997 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, I had never heard of the Counter-Reformation Baroque (and Bodegón) painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684), before a trip to Lisbon.