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A Journalist and an Architect Investigate China’s Sway Over Africa
Forty years on, a new arrogance continues to complicate the narrative of Africa as China encroaches — physically, socially, and economically — on its soil.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, Puerto Rican self-determination, Chris Burden, and artist's resale rights are on our mind, but so are the poetics of politics, the ruins of Philip Johnson, and much, much more.
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The Exuberant Postcard Art of the First Bauhaus Exhibition
In 1923, a flurry of colorful postcards heralded the first major Bauhaus school exhibition.
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The Biennial of the Americas Hints at Denver’s Growing Pains and Arts Scene
DENVER — It's tempting to draw a connection between the growth of the biennial and the widespread changes of the surrounding city.
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Artists Redesign the Alphabet, One Letter Per Day, on the Front Page of a City Newspaper
Each edition of the Fitchburg, Massachusetts, newspaper this month has one of 26 typographers designing a letter from the alphabet, and writers contributing poetry and stories inspired by that letter.
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How Women Artists Have Explored Nature's Unruly Side
WASHINGTON, DC — Dual exhibitions at the National Museum of Women in the Arts (NMWA) in Washington, DC, challenge the artistic interpretation of nature by women as something always beautiful and fragile.
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The Story of Reviving a Community Art Center in Battambang, Cambodia
I arrived in Battambang, Cambodia, late last year via a 5-hour bus ride from Siem Reap.
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Two Ways of Making a Painting in the 21st Century
Ever since the beginning of this century, when Ruth Root got rid of her references to Philip Guston, she has gotten better and better. In her current show, Ruth Root, at Andrew Kreps, she has kicked out the jams, and the results are unlike anything else being done right now.
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Mud Above Sky Below: Love and Death in Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’
Spring, 1968. All my students were black, and I wasn't. Jacob Lawrence, who was teaching a course down the hall from me at Pratt Institute, was a famous artist and a real teacher; I wasn’t either of those things.
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Tokyo, Mon Amour: The City in Photos, as Monster and Muse
In East Asia, sprawling, dynamic, constantly changing Tokyo has a long history as a seductive subject and muse for innovative camera artists, but that tradition and the remarkable, often unexpected images it has produced are still not so widely known in the West outside a relatively small but growin
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The Presence of Absence: Three Artists at Brian Morris
Cuts Noon Light is a sleek, smart, strikingly cohesive group show at Brian Morris Gallery featuring the work of three very different artists, Andrew Ginzel, Kara Rooney, and Steel Stillman. At once immediately familiar and decidedly alien, its hybrid objects foreground the unseen, the cryptic, and t
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Tracing Back to the World's Oldest Known Cello
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a special summer guest: the world's oldest known cello.