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A Photo Exhibition About Israel and the West Bank that Chooses Sides
On the heels of last Saturday’s protest at the Brooklyn Museum, a more careful examination of one of the two exhibitions targeted by the protesters is in order.
Essays
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Trying to Plan a Future Detroit Without Leaving the Past Behind
DETROIT — I didn't know what to expect as I prepared for the first evening of Ideas City Detroit on April 25.
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Georgia on My Mind
O’Keeffe was different: she lived far away in a sun-baked universe. She was mysterious. She’d been married to Alfred Stieglitz and had maintained her identity and independence. She painted bones.
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Refocusing on Marisol’s Ingenuity as a Sculptor and Draughtswoman
The generous obituaries written about Marisol Escobar in the last few days have reminded us of the important figure that she was.
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An Excerpt from ‘On Fire,’ Artists’ Tales of Devastating Studio Blazes
“My interest in participating in this book you’re about to make,” Brendan Fowler tells me, “is that I think it will be a document that would have been useful to me before I’d had my fire."
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A Throw of the Dice: On The Risks and Rewards of Art
Stereotypically, artists take inspired, even foolish, chances for the sake of their work, while critics judge that work without as much risk to their professional reputation or financial well-being.
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Art Center Brings Tourism and Unwanted Attention to a Oaxacan Village
SAN AGUSTÍN ETLA, Mexico — I arrived in San Agustín as if in a dream, after taking an overnight bus from Mexico City that pulled into the sleepy capital of Oaxaca before sunrise.
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A Dying Society: Abel Gance’s 'End of the World'
Abel Gance’s 1931 film End of the World certainly did represent the “end” of a very important thing: the director’s career as a great cinema pioneer.
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Dear Adam D. Weinberg, Donna De Salvo, and Scott Rothkopf
Why doesn’t the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurate a series of exhibitions in honor of Herman Melville? It would certainly be fitting given the museum’s recent change of address.
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Cuban Book Art: Ediciones Vigía and the Beauty of the Everyday
From the beginning the idea has been to create beauty from that which is readily available in a world of hardship and extreme scarcity.
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Fighting the Banality of Moderates: An Artist’s Vision for a Peaceful Turkey
When violence is celebrated, evil consumes good and insurgency turns into a kind of distortion of civilization. We have to find a way to break this vicious cycle.
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Lost and Invisible Bodies, Enshrined in Glitter and Bling
I am struggling to photograph a tapestry.