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“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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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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MINNEAPOLIS — How do you measure artistic success?
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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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"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Gustave Flaubert wrote in a letter.
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Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)
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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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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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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.
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The manipulation of the masses is ubiquitous in everyday life, from pop culture to religion to politics.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It is a dark room that seems like nothing much — a cave, an aside to the larger exhibition spaces at MIT's List Center — until you immerse yourself in it for any length of time.
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Viola Frey, a powerful woman and rule-busting artist, has not been given enough credit for the ways in which she changed the game for artists working in clay.