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Damien Hirst, Turning In Circles
Hirst has been an erratic artist from the beginning, just as likely to fail as to succeed.
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Kara Walker’s Monument to Monstrousness
Can the enduring presence of such monuments among us still have the power to reinforce deep-rooted prejudices, by the very fact that they have simply not gone away?
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The Hollow Heart of Antony Gormley’s Spectacle
Is there something self-aggrandizing about Gormley’s career-long obsession with making casts of his own body?
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Lee Krasner’s Second Act
Though Krasner often invited art historians to interpret her work biographically, she was too resourceful an artist for those reductive readings to overshadow her art’s complexity.
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Lee Krasner’s Early Prophecies
Krasner’s teacher, Hans Hofmann, told her that her work was so good, you would have never known it was done by a woman.
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How Psychiatry and Hallucinogenic Drugs Meet in Painting
The Bethlem Museum of the Mind's latest exhibition Brilliant Visions: Mescaline, Art and Psychiatry plunges into the murky world of psychosis and psychedelics.
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Reinhard Mucha's Unsettling Precision
Mucha's reflective sculptures ensure that while looking at one work, viewers are aware of others and our presence among them.
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Kader Attia's Work Holds a Mirror to the World's Injustice
Attia links seemingly disparate things and gives them new meanings by mining history, politics, literature, religion, art, anthropology, and medicine to find echoes everywhere.
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London’s Skyline Will Bloom With Proposed “Tulip” Building
From the architects of the Gherkin comes another glass skyscraper full of eccentricities. City planners have put the building on track for approval despite objections from the mayor's office.
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Dazzlingly Morbid, Hand-Painted Film Posters from 1980s Ghana
The often surreal or disturbing posters were commissioned by mobile video clubs to advertise roving screenings.
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The Women Photographers of World War I
No Man's Land: Women's Photography and the First World War at Impressions Gallery in the UK highlights women's perspectives of World War I.
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The Hand-Painted Ghouls and Specters of Mid-20th-Century Carnival Ghost Trains
Almost all carnivals traveling the circuits in the United States and Great Britain in the 1940s and '50s towed their own haunted railroad.