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Plastiglomerate, the Anthropocene’s New Stone
The new stone is a fusion, through fire, of molten plastic and natural materials.
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A Complex Portrait of Gentrification in New Yorkers' Own Words
Last month the Brooklyn Public Library bestowed its inaugural Brooklyn Eagle Literary Prize for a work of non-fiction on DW Gibson for The Edge Becomes the Center: An Oral History of Gentrification.
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"All Artists Are Theater Artists": Taylor Mac on the Connections Between Performance Art and Plays
Queerness revolts in the Podunk setting of Taylor Mac’s newest play, Hir, currently running at Playwrights Horizons.
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Artists Pick Artists: Mathew Hale
Mathew Hale has responded to the seven questions by making entirely new works as answers.
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Don’t Spook the Horse: Carroll Dunham on His New Work
The odd one out in Carroll Dunham’s current exhibition of paintings at Barbara Gladstone is “Culture as a Verb” (2013-2015). It’s the closest thing Dunham, or anyone in my recent memory, has come to painting the feeling of terrified, paranoid sorrow.
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Working Toward an "Artist Survival Guide" for People of Color
LOS ANGELES — Over the summer, a group of artists invited the public to talk critically and humorously about race, art, and survival in a context where they could not only vent frustrations but also share resources and build community as people of color.
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Reading Menstrual Rags Like Rorschach Tests
From popular culture to religious beliefs, menstruation has always been viewed as quite the taboo subject.
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Beer with a Painter: Lucy Mink Covello
Lucy Mink Covello lives in New Hampshire, not too far from where I spend a couple of weeks every summer. We met at my friends’ farm, spread a blanket under trees in the apple orchard, and shared some beer, bread, and cheese.
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Empathy, Fantasy, and the Power of Protest: A Conversation with Chitra Ganesh
In artist Chitra Ganesh’s latest exhibition, Protest Fantasies at Gallery Wendi Norris in San Francisco, protest becomes something more than rebellion — it becomes internal.
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"We Are Experiencing Hyper-Gentrification": Gowanus Art Community Sizes Up Its Future
As Arts Gowanus organized a rally for artists displaced from 94 9th Street and adjacent, connected buildings earlier this month, some 350 artists and local businesses were preparing for Gowanus Open Studios (GOS)
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A Photographer Who Turns Viewers into Voyeurs
Matthew Morrocco arrived at the café fashionably late, wearing an army jacket and floral print flats. Before sitting down he ordered his coffee.
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On Negotiating Conflict and Privilege: An Interview with the Guerrilla Girls
MINNEAPOLIS — After 30 years, the Guerrilla Girls show no signs of slowing down.