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A Rainbow of Visual Responses to the Orlando Shooting
As I watched the unbelievable events in Orlando transpire on television news networks and social media, I was so numb that all the information jumbled together.
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Following Sophie Calle
In April 1981, a detective followed the French artist Sophie Calle through the streets of Paris for one day.
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Cycling Through Tino Sehgal’s “Constructed Situations" in Marrakesh
MARRAKESH — As the afternoon sun radiated onto Jemaa el-Fna square in the old medina quarter of the city, nine bodies emerged before me on the ground, beatboxing and gyrating, surrounded by curious onlookers.
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Why Do We Care About Palmyra So Much?
Why recreate Palmyra's Triumphal Arch and set it up in Western capitals? Why perform European art music in the ancient theater? The organizers suggest that each event is a show of solidarity with Syrians, but these gestures — Western groups drawing attention to ancient remains, primarily for Western
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1,588-Foot-Tall Artwork Lights Up a Political Inferno in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — Add Oil Team is the name of the artist duo of Sampson Wong Yu-hin and Jason Lam Chi-fai, whose most recent work, "Our 60-Second Friendship Begins Now" — aka, the "Countdown Machine" — has sparked a firestorm of controversy, both locally and abroad.
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Carl Andre, Museum Etiquette, and Me
MILWAUKEE — As I look at this photograph of myself, lying flat with arms outstretched on the Carl Andre, I wonder about my violation of museum etiquette.
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Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part Two
I want to focus on Jasper Johns’s three recent monotypes based on a Vietnam-era photograph of an emotionally shattered soldier, which are included in Jasper Johns: Monotypes at Matthew Marks.
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Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part One
Perhaps we have all been reading his work too narrowly since his first show at Leo Castelli, more than a half-century ago.
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Reflections on My Great Aunt, an Artist Who Painted for No One but Herself
The week after her death, my family went to Great Aunt Afrodite's house to sort through her belongings, including hundreds of watercolors and sketches that none of us had ever seen before.
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Hanne Darboven: Repetition
Hanne Darboven, though considered a visual artist, considered herself, first and foremost, a writer.
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A Sly Airbnb Homage to Marcel Broodthaers
Broodthaers was an artist who developed an inflammatory and unruly practice, playing with notions of expectation and frustrating them.
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Russia and Syria Use Palmyra as a Stage for Political Theater
Since its capture by ISIS in May of 2015, Palmyra has become a kind of archaeological fetish for the West.