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9 Thoughts on Funhouse Art, Now with Cat GIFs!
I originally considered writing in a standard review format, but Carsten Höller’s retrospective Decision, currently on view at London’s Hayward Gallery, is more amenable to the listicle form.
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Welcome to World Wide West: A Summit on the "Side Effects" of Technology
POINT ARENA, Calif. — A few months ago, a group of artists, writers, curators, and creative technologists received an email with a link to a video requesting participation in a summit held in the small coastal town of Point Arena, California. I was one of 30 individuals who received the message.
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A Music Festival for the Underrepresented in Detroit
DETROIT — Within media culture, male-dominated environments are presented as the norm, despite the fact that men only comprise roughly half the population.
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Gulf Labor Hips Venice Biennale Visitors to UAE Labor Abuses
VENICE — On Wednesday the Gulf Labor Coalition held the first in a series of four panels it is organizing as part of the 2015 Venice Biennale.
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The Only Five Public Statues of Historic Women in NYC
Setting aside the allegorical females and fictional heroines like Lewis Carroll's Alice, who are the historic women honored in New York's public statuary?
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Sum of the Arts
Height (in feet) of the rogue wave depicted in Katsushika Hokusai's famed "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" (c.1830–32) = 32–39
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Idyllic Illustrations of Daily Postwar Life
In 1915, during World War I, the printing company Wills & Hepworth began publishing "pure and healthy literature" for children marked with a ladybird logo, giving rise to the London-based publishing company now known as Ladybird Books.
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From Obsessive Drawings to Sound Sculptures, Mark Mothersbaugh’s Unexpected Art Career
MINNEAPOLIS — Mark Mothersbaugh is so much a part of pop culture that even if you aren’t a fan of his punk band Devo, you’re probably familiar with his music.
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Artworks Cobbled Together from Immigrant Experiences
Art about identity politics, personal history, and cultural heritage is seen all too rarely in Bushwick galleries, where formal and material concerns tend to dominate.
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The Evolution of the Watermelon, Captured in Still Lifes
The watermelons of our summers are not the watermelons of yesteryear, as demonstrated by a 17th-century painting by Italian artist Giovanni Stanchi.
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A Library of Glacial Water in Iceland
STYKKISHÓLMUR, Iceland — It's hard to miss Vatnasafn, or the Library of Water, if you know what you're looking for.
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Rebirth of Stagnant San Diego Art Institute Riles Some of Its Members
Since taking the reins at the San Diego Art Institute in March 2014, Ginger Shulick Porcella has thoroughly revamped the nonprofit art space, increasing its visibility, diversifying its programming, and drawing praise from everyone with a stake in the local art scene — well, almost everyone.