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PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti — In 2011, for the second Ghetto Biennale, artist Jason Metcalf hired a Haitian translator to translate the chapter on creolization from Nicholas Bourriaud's The Radicant into Creole and distributed it throughout Port-au-Prince, the location of the biennale. When I read about t
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Some people spend Christmas Eve going to mass or sitting around a tree; others spend it eating Chinese food and going to see a movie. If you don't have any family or friend traditions to adhere to, or if you do but want an escape, one possibility I'd recommend is to spend this late afternoon/evening
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SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Stashed away in the tony suburbs just west of Boston, the deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum and its engagement with the wider, grittier world outside its gates has sometimes been called into question. But the museum has begun focusing its attention every two years on local arti
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The fall season is upon us, and art lovers' thoughts turn to museum exhibitions. Here's our very short list of what not to miss.
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SANTA FE, New Mexico — SITE Santa Fe claims to have established the first international art biennial in the United States. The year was 1995, the theme was “Longing and Belonging,” the raison d'être was to create a global exhibition in lil’ ole Santa Fe, and the response was so strong, according to
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The world’s most famous biannual art event, the Venice Biennale, stands apart from other biennials because of its network of country-specific pavilions, discrete buildings that different countries use to show their exhibitions. Now, the Performa performance art biennial, one of the world’s more diff
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LONDON — Cultural relativism is a problematic thing. If you don't agree, ask Caveh Zahedi, whose new film, The Sheikh and I, is set to premiere at Brooklyn’s Factory 25 on December 7 after having been banned on the grounds of blasphemy by the biennial that commissioned it.
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BEIJING — It's a four hour train from Seoul — two trains, to be precise, as a transfer is necessary. With a population of a little over a million people, it's the sixth-largest city in South Korea. That city is Gwangju, whose name means, literally, the bright province. It's a city of flashing neon l
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By the ordinary way of reckoning such things, there are considerably fewer artists participating in this year's Prospect.2 biennial in New Orleans than in the event's first iteration three years ago. But if artist and provocateur William Pope.L's piece for the exhibition turns out according to sched
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The Bronx Museum's Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped emerging artists in the New York area navigate the business side of art since the 1980s. AIM is now celebrating its 30th anniversary with two joint exhibitions at the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill: Bronx Calling: The First AIM Bienn
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New Orleans is a city of excess: we eat more good food, show more skin (at least during Carnival season), and have more fun than just about any other city in the United States, or anywhere. And when the Prospect.1 art biennial rolled into town in the fall of 2008, we could add "see more great art" t