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How Do Artists Feel About Art Fairs?
Art fairs are a bit like the shopping malls of the art world.
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Five Mujeres Critique the Guerrilla Girls and Mainstream Feminism
SAINT PAUL, Minn. —“What happens when five feminist artists lock themselves up in a gallery for 48 hours?” asked the mujeres behind the Twin Cities arts collective Electric Machete Studios, located in the first Latino neighborhood of Minnesota, West St. Paul.
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An Ecologically Minded Artist Navigating the Nature-Culture Continuum
In recent years, my interest has grown in how art can help tackle the environmental devastation of our planet. During that time, I've begun following the artist and educator Ellie Irons, both for her work and her thinking.
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Making Art from the Remnants of Everyday Activities
MEXICO CITY — Architect-turned-conceptual artist Gabriel de la Mora's work is cold and formal to the point of appearing scientific, yet it is layered with history.
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"Virtuosity Provides Freedom": Thoughts from an African American Composer
Lamar’s performances evoke a haunted, transcendent act of awakened consciousness and composed virtuosity that b(l)end the conventions of goth rock and European classical music, opera and the avant-garde, and spirituals and free jazz, yielding something that is singularly his own.
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The Artist Building a Bridge from Brooklyn to Governors Island
Nancy Nowacek has a dream: she wants to build a pedestrian bridge between Brooklyn and Governors Island.
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Beer with a Painter: June Leaf
Walking through the green door into June Leaf’s old-school New York studio — a street-level space downtown — is a bit like entering a Willy Wonka world.
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The Meandering Comics and Narrative Paintings of an Independent Chinese Cartoonist
SHANGHAI — When Yan Cong started self-publishing comics in the mid-2000s, his work ignored the conventions of the manga-influenced Chinese comics industry and looked instead like characters from children’s cartoons had wandered into an unexpectedly adult world.
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Hernan Bas on Painting Aristocratic, Queer Life in 1920s London
Aloof, gay waifs appear as persistently in Hernan Bas’s paintings as saints in a cathedral.
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Barkley L. Hendricks on "the Fucked-Up-Ness of American Culture"
Barkley L. Hendricks is well known for creating life-size oil paintings of mostly black American subjects from northeastern cities, but his practice involves much more than that.
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Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship
Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.
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Looking Back at Toronto's Radical 1980s Underground Art Scene
TORONTO — The Rebel Zone provides insight into a scene that set the stage for a whole generation of artists, ultimately leading to one of the city’s earliest examples of gentrification.