The sixth episode and season finale ultimately leaned into the very issues the reality show was ostensibly trying to address.
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MTV’s The Exhibit Needs a Cutthroat Judge
In episode three, the artists created works about the pandemic and bonded with each other, which is cute but doesn’t really make for good TV.
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Artists Tackle Social Media in Another Meh Episode of The Exhibit
Also, one contestant attempted three oil paintings in seven hours. It went as well as you can imagine.
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The Hirshhorn Shows Off Its New Duchamp Collection
The Hirshhorn Museum, which previously had only one work by Duchamp, now ranks near the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art as holding the most prominent public collections of his work.
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A History of Holocaust Denial Comes Under Scrutiny in The Evidence Room
The Hirshhorn Museum exhibition, filled with reproductions and plaster casts of the Auschwitz-Birkenau concentration camp, works through the wounds and scars of a gruesome history.
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Mark Bradford’s Gettysburg Address
Bradford’s installation at the Hirshhorn Museum takes as its subject the ways we think, and ultimately don’t think, about history.
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Curator Nato Thompson on Politics and the State of Social Practice Art
The moderator of an upcoming conversation on art and dissent at the Hirshhorn Museum, Thompson talks about the changing art world.
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A Series at the Hirshhorn and Newseum Focuses on Art & Free Speech
Presented in association with the exhibition Ai Weiwei: Trace, this conversation series will include perspectives from artists, journalists, activists, and academics.
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A Wireless Vibration Suit Helps the Deaf “Feel” Music
Developed by Not Impossible Labs, the suit translates sounds into a cascade of vibrations, with different instruments registering in different zones across the body.
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7 Thoughts About Ivanka Trump’s Photo in Kusama’s “Obliteration Room”
And contemporary art continues to be part of the Jivanka brand.
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Immersed in Yayoi Kusama’s Lonely Labyrinths and Infinite Worlds
Yayoi Kusama’s retrospective at the Hirshhorn Museum brings together the largest number of mirror rooms ever, as they all appear to extend infinitely into distant darkness.
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Liberation Theology: Ragnar Kjartansson’s “God”
At one point, watching Kjartansson’s facial expression grow increasingly blissed-out and almost absent, his eyes directed heavenward, I sensed an echo of Bernini’s ecstatic St. Teresa.
