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"It's All Fear Circulating": Interpreting a Towering Artwork's Removal in Hong Kong
HONG KONG — A nine-and-a-half-minute video created a stir here when it opened on the giant LED façade of the International Commerce Centre tower.
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Beer with a Painter: Erika Ranee
I met Erika Ranee last summer when I took students to see a pop-up exhibition she curated in a Brooklyn studio, arranged around the theme of imagery of the eye.
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An Artist Brings a Gallery to His Hometown, the "Worst Place in the UK"
LONDON — Whether or not they have ever been to Luton, people who know of the place feel they need little introduction.
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The Virtual Is Liminal: An Interview with Claudia Hart
I first met Claudia Hart in 1995, when she was living in Berlin and I had gone there to do research for a project.
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A Community of Women Bound Together by Braids
During a recent chat on a Brooklyn park bench, artist Amy Cutler described her unexpected role as a confidant to strangers.
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Queering Abstract Art with Wrapped, Grommeted, and "Roughed-Up" Paintings
Harmony Hammond has had a pioneering impact on art, in particular through her insistence on feminist and queer content in abstract work.
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An Oppositional Artist in Turkey on Censorship, Political Unrest, and “Terrorism”
ISTANBUL — Since winning the November 2015 elections, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and his AKP party have taken extreme measures to silence anyone who raises their voice to criticize government policy.
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Glenn Adamson on New York and London’s Distinct Museum Cultures
Glenn Adamson recently stepped down from his directorship at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD) in Manhattan's Columbus Circle, after serving that position for a little less than three years.
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A Painter on the Entangled Relationship Between Figure and Frame
"I’m trying to make explicit the questions I ask myself: Can the figure bossily occupy the restraining space of the canvas?"
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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.