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Carolina Caycedo’s Spiritual Fieldwork
Land of Friends at BALTIC campaigns for the rights of watershed-dwelling peoples and rivers.
Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art
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A Bill Murray Art Exhibit as Odd and Inscrutable as the Actor Himself
On view at BALTIC center for contemporary art in Gateshead, UK, BILL MURRAY: a story of distance, size and sincerity explores what British artist Brian Griffiths calls the actor’s “Murray-ness.”
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When Rotting Whales Were Toured as Sideshow Spectacles
In researching her new art project, Fiona Tan discovered an odd pamphlet advertising "The Exhibition of Jonah, the Giant Whale caught off Trondheim, Norway."
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Thomas Bayrle, the Host in the Machine
VILLEURBANNE, France — Rather than taking a neutral Warholian attitude towards art and the mass-produced, Bayrle’s is a critical practice of Pop art that closes the gap between the mass and the multitude by creating image-swarms where immanence meets excess.
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Northern English Museum Celebrates Ten Years
GATESHEAD, UK — I've visited 35 states in the USA since I moved to Chicago ten years ago, and I've been struck many times by the presence of high-quality art museums in out-of-the-way places, but it'smore surprising to see a comparable art space in England. But the Baltic Mill Art Museum, in the nor