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When We Fall Out of Love with Artists
What does it say about the character of art audiences when artists who had previously been adored fall out of fashion and have scorn piled on them?
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Forty Years of Carolee Schneemann’s “Interior Scroll”
Forty years ago on August 29, 1975, the thirty-six-year-old artist Carolee Schneemann pulled a scroll from her vagina. The performance, titled Interior Scroll, is an essential moment in performance art history, and an important milestone in the artist’s provocative and influential oeuvre.
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Ingrid Bergman at 100: An Appreciation
Bergman was a vital, daring force both in the films in which she starred and — through her bold initiative, forging collaborations and instigating projects time and again — in the course of the history of cinema as a whole.
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Undoing Denials at the Venice Biennale's Armenian Pavilion
Since its inception a couple of decades ago following Armenia’s independence, the curatorial direction of the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale leaned predominantly towards showcasing artists who work/live in Yerevan.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Poetics of the Cat Video
Cats in general, and cat videos in particular, appear to test, and sometimes to confirm, familiar ideas about the essence of art.
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The Time George Pataki (Now a Presidential Hopeful) Accused an Artist of “Denigrating America”
It was in the late spring of 2005 when the story first started making the rounds.
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Pierre Huyghe and the Art of the Rupture
The tank is a lens through which we can better see Pierre Huyghe’s overall project.
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In Defense of Magic
Childhood is the kingdom of magic. In this world, the child invents new secret languages, speaks with people and creatures visible only to her eyes. She is happy.
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What the Lascaux Caves Facsimiles Fail to Capture
PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition.
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My Visit with Georgia O’Keeffe, 1972
I do not trust my memory. I have no notes or photographs. There may be errors in this essay. I was 29, working at the Tamarind Lithography Institute in Albuquerque. I asked everyone if he/she knew Georgia O’Keeffe and whether it would be possible to meet her. Like many young women artists, I was sea
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Suellen Rocca in the 1960s
In 1968, Suellen Rocca, the artist who painted “Purse Curse,” was a member of the Hairy Who, a group of six artists who exhibited under that moniker from 1966 to 1969 in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Washington, D.C.
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Welcome to World Wide West: A Summit on the "Side Effects" of Technology
POINT ARENA, Calif. — A few months ago, a group of artists, writers, curators, and creative technologists received an email with a link to a video requesting participation in a summit held in the small coastal town of Point Arena, California. I was one of 30 individuals who received the message.