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Personal but Highly Political Highlights from the 2015 Venice Biennale
VENICE — As I feel my way through a curtain and into a pitch-black, cavernous space, a white square shimmers in the distance.
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Rowdy Celebrations
A few months ago, I saw a painting by Peter Reginato for the first time. It was on the streets of Manhattan.
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Fabulous Immediacies and Epic Trajectories: Joan Miró’s Late Paintings
How did postwar New York painting influence one of its foremost European progenitors? This question is posed as a partial rationale for Nahmad Contemporary’s current show Joan Miró: Oiseux Dans L’Espace.
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Colored Dots and Brass Tacks: The Paintings of Andrew Forge
“They take a long time to make.” That’s what the British artist and writer Andrew Forge said when he was “questioned as to the meaning of his paintings,” according to an obituary that ran in The Telegraph
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In Bushwick, an Exhibition Tears Down Walls Between Art and Craft
Neo-Craftivism, a group show at the Parlour Bushwick, brings together works by nine artists that dynamite the tired old boundaries separating craft and art.
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A Nighttime Journey Through Minneapolis in Search of Art
MINNEAPOLIS — How do you measure artistic success?
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Political Cartoons from a Golden Age of British Satire
In late 18th-century Britain, etched cartoons and caricatures abounded, poking fun at kings, noblemen, society ladies, French revolutionaries, the institution of marriage, and countless other people and things.
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The Kalman Family's Language of Looking
"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Gustave Flaubert wrote in a letter.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)
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Marcel Broodthaers Killed Art with Currency
I suspect that those in the flow of the globalized 1% who advocate art for money’s sake are purposefully ignorant of Ursula Meyer’s key 1972 proposition.
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The Freedmen Fight for Tribal Citizenship in a New Documentary
OKLAHOMA CITY — "When you know what you really are and you haven't been embraced or acknowledged, it's horrible," says Kenneth Payton, a descendant of the Cherokee Freedmen, in the documentary By Blood.
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Why One Ecuadorian Town Has Three Panama Hat Museums
CUENCA, Ecuador — The cool breeze in Cuenca, a city nuzzled in the Ecuadorian Andes at 8,000 feet elevation, blows through its cobblestone streets, rustling the skirts of indigenous women who wear long braids down their back with a baby wrapped in a bright colored shawl slung over their shoulders.