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"We Saw This Coming": Anti-Trump Artist Duo Reflects on Election Results
David Gleeson and Mary Mihelic hoped they'd be able to retire their Trump campaign bus–turned–rolling anti-Trump art project after November 8. Now they can't.
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A Prankster-Turned-Painter Leaves Self-Sabotage Behind
"Art and entertainment are oil and water, which I know because I went through it," says Marc Horowitz.
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Lines of Thought: An Interview with Ben Jones
Last month, Ben Jones exhibited a new body of work at The Hole gallery on the Lower East Side. The gallery’s walls and floor are painted a bright, startling white; Jones’s artwork, usually drenched in hot hues, here consists only of graphite-colored oil-stick line drawings.
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The Most Important Question About Modern Art's Great Men: Hot or Not?
In her new book, Hot or Not: 20th-Century Male Artists, Jessica Campbell passes definitive judgment on sex appeal of canonical modernists.
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Beer with a Painter: Billy Al Bengston
“Practically everything I do takes ten years for people to get,” Billy Al Bengston says — perhaps a reason why several of his 1950s and ‘60s exhibitions have recently been re-staged.
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Personal Stories from Shakespeare and Company, Paris’s Beloved English-Language Bookstore
Sylvia Whitman, who now runs the shop, and Krista Halverson, who edited the book, discuss a new publication that tells an in-depth history of Shakespeare and Company.
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MacArthur Fellow Mary Reid Kelley on Dismantling Sexual Taboos with Humor
In Mary Reid Kelley’s videos, bawdy characters, performed by the artist, bewitch with complex wordplay.
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No Rest Cures for the Wicked: An Interview with Psychoanalyst Jamieson Webster
A psychoanalyst and cultural commentator, Jamieson Webster upends academic discourses on a daily basis.
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Somali American Artists Create a Space All Their Own
St. John’s Catholic Church was built in 1922 to serve the growing Irish immigrant parish that was founded in 1887 on the city’s east side.
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Looking at the Invisible Children Growing Up as Refugees
While many photographers focus on either aesthetics or rigorous documentation, Rania Matar fuses them — and adds a generous dose of humanity for good measure.
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Magritte the Writer: An Interview with Kathleen Rooney
Kathleen Rooney's most recent project, René Magritte: Selected Writings, co-edited with Eric Plattner, is somewhat out of the ordinary for this Chicago-based writer. This book offers English speakers a chance to dive into the life of René Magritte, the lauded Belgian surrealist painter.
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Unlocking the Secret Logic of Symbols Through Repetition
"Repetition is a great tool to show difference, structure thought, and question authenticity. It’s a way for me to understand and study the logic behind things."