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Sigmar Polke’s Dreamy, Trippy Art Went Deeper than Pop
COLOGNE, Germany — Sigmar Polke was based in Cologne for over 30 years before he died there in 2010 at age 69, and his Alibis: Retrospective brings his body of work home to rest.
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ArtRx NYC
We sort of say this every week, but there is so.much.good.stuff happening in NYC over the next seven days. Celebrate James Joyce and Bloomsday in arty style, attend a con focused on comics and black culture, watch the sun rise with Yoko Ono ... and if you're a woman especially, go watch Goodfellas i
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A New Museum Encourages Us to Consider Death
NEW ORLEANS — No matter how strong your stomach for the macabre, there is likely some moment in the Museum of Death that will make it twist.
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Determined Scholar Reassembles a 2nd-Century Medical Manual
The 11-volume On the Mixtures and Powers of Simple Drugs by 2nd-century Greek physician Galen, with its ancient guidelines for pharmacology, was standard reading for centuries in the medical profession.
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Sculptors Pay Tribute to an 18th-Century Botanist in Wood
Long before North Americans could pick up tomato seedlings at their local hardware store, there was John Bartram.
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How a Long-Lost Silent Film Helped Rescue a Forgotten Kiowa Tipi
OKLAHOMA CITY — In 1920, a distinctive tipi painted with horizontal stripes appeared in a silent film called Daughter of Dawn.
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Unimaginative Revisions of Key Moments in US Race Relations
LOS ANGELES — Historical Fiction, Tyler Shields’s new photography show at the Andrew Weiss gallery in Los Angeles, is an interpretation of some important moments in 20th-century US history.
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Jessica Rohrer’s View of the Heaven on Earth Club
“Something strange is creeping across me.” The first line of John Ashbery’s poem, “Daffy Duck in Hollywood,” came to mind while I was scrutinizing the modestly scaled, seemingly benign works included in Bloomfield, Jessica Rohrer’s latest exhibition of paintings and works on paper at PPOW.
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Natasha Mayers: Here Come the Men in Suits
PORTLAND, Maine — Natasha Mayers is a tried and true activist artist. With few exceptions, her art — paintings and murals and the banners she helps create as part of the Artists Rapid Response Team, or ARRT — is focused on fighting for justice of every kind: racial, social, restorative, environmenta
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Urs Fischer’s “Big Clay #4”: The Most Expensive Turd in the Art Casino?
Looming over the pedestrians of midtown Manhattan is a monumental new work, “Big Clay #4” (2013–14) made by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer.
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Loaded History: Marino Marini’s Armless Juggler
VATICAN CITY — Modern art has achieved a slightly higher profile at the Vatican Museum these days (relatively speaking, of course): among other offerings, the recently opened Borgia apartments are currently filled with sometimes ordinary, sometimes exceptional selections of mid-20th-century Italian
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Can an Algorithm Determine Art History's Most Creative Paintings?
At the end of the month Ahmed Elgammal and Babak Saleh, an associate professor and PhD candidate, respectively, in the Department of Computer Science at Rutgers University, will present their paper "Quantifying Creativity in Art Networks" at the International Conference on Computational Creativity.