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The New York Film Festival Dives Into the Art Scene
From feature films to experimental shorts, several highlights of this year’s lineup explore what it takes to live and work as an artist.
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Our Enduring Fascination With Ancient Roman Baths
From a mosaic of flip-flops in Sicily to Cicero's possible sauna, new discoveries prove that bathing has always been about more than getting clean.
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A Sprrrawling Exhibition of Cat-Themed Meowsterpieces
More than 40 artists contributed paintings, sculptures, and other tributes to our favorite four-legged introverts for this salon-style show.
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The Visual Pleasures of Art Therapy
A psychological assessment meant to uncloak unconscious feelings about the self, home, and familial relationships becomes a vehicle for artistic exploration.
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Larry Bell’s Art Through the Looking Glass
The pioneering Light and Space artist spoke with Hyperallergic ahead of the unveiling his largest public art project to date.
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Alison Saar’s Artistic Revolution
The artist talks to Hyperallergic about being raised by strong Black women, creating with abandon, and the full-circle significance of receiving the David C. Driskell Prize.
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Emily Mason’s Quest for Color and Truth
The late painter was influenced by Abstract Expressionism, but she had none of the hubris of its male artists. For her, painting was not about an experience, it was an experience.
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Listening to the Paintings of Serj Tankian
An exhibition of artworks by the System of a Down frontman at the Armenian Museum of America pairs his works with music he composed especially for them.
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An Artist and a Historian Plumb Gynecology’s Hidden Histories
Nao Bustamante and Wendy Kline explore the racist, sexist, would-be-very-illegal-today methods through which we’ve come to understand the medical field.
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Passports, Prints, and Protest at the NY Art Book Fair
The indie presses exhibiting at Printed Matter’s annual fair, now back at MoMA PS1, put an irreverent twist on the subversive histories of radical publishing.
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A Defiant Gaza Biennale Opens in New York City
From Gaza to the World at Recess in Brooklyn, the show's first North American stop, brings together works by 25 Palestinian artists.
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Jeffrey Gibson’s Guardian Animals Grace The Met’s Facade
The artist’s bronze sculptures for the museum’s exterior suggest the merging of the natural and the artistic, the real and the mythical.