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Preserving the Lifework of a Cross-Dressing Queer Legend
Earlier this year, as part of the Whitney Biennial, I had my Tarot cards read by Flawless Sabrina.
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With Tech, Satisfying a Need for Artistic Speed
BRIGHTON, UK — Attempting an interview with Chicks on Speed is a logistical challenge, as members of the art and music collective are dispersed around the world.
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A Paul McCarthy Parody to Plug the Hole in Your Holiday Decorations
The art world's favorite dirty joke of 2014 — Paul McCarthy's suggestive "Tree" inflatable that caused Paris's prudes to perk up back in October — is coming home for the holidays.
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“Joyfully Defiant”: A Photographic Introduction to the Kurds
Robert Leutheuser is an independent cultural photographer who has dedicated himself to documenting community life in the Middle East, focusing on Kurdish peoples. Perhaps most notably, his work has helped the international community to understand who the Yezidis are.
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Painting “Peaceful” Rather Than “Perfect”
LONDON — Regarding the use of photographs in painting, it’s no shortcut, at least not in the work of Ben Johnson.
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Archiving Eden Ahead of the Apocalypse
The apocalypse may be a popular trope in sci-fi films and mass market fiction, but it's not something most people have ever actually prepared for.
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From Hermitage Cats to a Chernobyl Safari, Anna Jermolaewa's Counter Histories
By now the Hermitage cats, the troupe of feline pest control agents residing at the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg, are well known, but Anna Jermolaewa is providing some historical context for all the cuteness.
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Artists Pick Artists: Des Lawrence
I crossed my fingers and wrote as persuasively as I could when asking Des Lawrence for an interview. The artist Tom Chamberlain, who picked him, warned me, "there's a possibility he might refuse; it's hard, but worth it, getting him to talk about his work." Indeed, there is nothing on the internet w
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Riding Mexico's "Death Train" with Central America's Child Migrants
For the past six years, photographer Michelle Frankfurter has been riding the rails with a Bronica camera and photographing the migrants traveling to the US-Mexico border from Central America.
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Beer with a Painter: Rebecca Morris
I heard Rebecca Morris speak earlier this year in Chicago, and was struck by how she discussed becoming an abstractionist at a time when both abstraction and painting were under attack.
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The Interlaced Layers of Tamara Gonzales
The Brooklyn-based painter Tamara Gonzales works with spray paint and lace to create digital, optical, urban, and electric paintings.
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The Downside of Art Going Viral
What happens when an artist places their work on mainstream media and feels overwhelmed by negative comments? Kristine Potter found out after Buzzfeed posted her photographs.