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Addie Wagenknecht’s Fraying of America
In her solo exhibition, the artist creates an installation that is many things but unified is not one of them.
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After Decades of Selling New Media Art, Gallerist Steven Sacks Offers His Take on NFTs
Bitforms gallery has been on the cutting edge of digital art for decades, so what does its founder think about NFTs?
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Claudia Hart Breathes Life into Static Tropes of Modernism
The Ruins at Bitforms Gallery riffs off the work of influential Modernists to create vivid digital simulations
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Interactive Art Illuminates Our Relationship to the Sun
Daniel Rozin challenges us to explore how we interact with and perceive the sun in a fascinating new show.
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Mesmerized and Saddened by the Illusion of Sunlight
This is the kind of work we will share when we have so laid waste to the planet that most of what the world will have access to is this kind of simulacra.
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An Artist Navigates the Capitalist Code of Global Shipping
Art history is full of seascapes depicting the ocean as either a thoroughly charted territory over which nations fight and do trade, or an unknowable force that is forever beyond human control.
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Turning the Digital into the Material, with Feng Shui
Digital data has become one of the most integral and misunderstood resources in contemporary society.
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An Artwork Forces Us to Face Mexico’s Disappeared Students
People who have the luxury of not being directly affected by the world’s many injustices often feel fatigued by so much bad news.
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Inhabiting Other People's Recorded Memories
The group exhibition Memory Burn at bitforms gallery, curated by Chris Romero, explores the devices we use to record our lives as we confront mortality and death.
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Tripping Through a Luxurious Post-Human Future
A golden reindeer gallops across a vast checkerboard while a grotesque UFO flies overhead.
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Kinetic Energy Transforms Humble Materials into Minimalist Drums
Swiss installation artist Zimoun, who specializes in immersive soundscapes and acoustic architecture, has seemingly turned all of New York into a giant aural installation.
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Out-Burroughing William S. Burroughs
About thirty years ago, I met William S. Burroughs and had him sign my hardcover copy of Naked Lunch, which I duly lost. By contrast, R. Luke Dubois met Burroughs and found a clever idea. He came up with a literary art exhibition that basically out-Burroughed Burroughs.