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The Universal Humanism of Emancipatory Struggles
Jehane Noujaim's The Square is a cinéma vérité-style documentary offering an electrifyingly intimate, character-driven perspective on Egypt's political uprising and ensuing turmoil.
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Painting Faded Memories
Kimberly Brooks's solo exhibition I Notice People Disappear, currently on view at ArtHouse 429 in West Palm Beach, Florida, shows a beautiful evolution from her previous work; she has a looser style that demonstrates a confidence in taking chances.
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Culture By Way of Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — It must have been kismet that I ended up sitting next to Julie Niemi at the ridiculous Dave Hickey lecture a few weeks ago. Niemi is one of four founding editors of the LA-based biannual print publication VIA, which is dedicated to the art, food, and music culture of Los Angeles.
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Beer with a Painter: Ryan Cobourn
A couple of years ago, while we were walking through the de Kooning exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, Ryan Cobourn said to me, “Your interviews with artists should be more informal and rambling. You should do them, y’know, over beer.”
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Artists Pick Artists: Claire Sherman
Editor's Note: This is the first in a series of interviews with artists that will continue indefinitely, without direction, and without any one person's control. The artists are asked seven question about their art and their ideas about art.
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A Journal for Art That's Purely Digital
LOS ANGELES — Artists who work in the digital realm are increasingly gaining recognition with exhibitions, auctions, and biennials. A new artist/writer-led online magazine called NOOART: The Journal of Objectless Art seeks to further the discussion about this type of work.
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Over 200 Years of Portraiture in One Exhibition
Striking Resemblance: The Changing Art of Portraiture at Rutger University's Zimmerli Art Museum considers some 200 years (c. 1800 to the present) of the portrait's history in mediums two-, three- and four-dimensional, with 130 works by approximately 80 artists.
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Beer with a Painter: Tine Lundsfryd
To enter the studio of Tine Lundsfryd in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, you climb a dark, narrow staircase lined with paintings, into a light, open space: rooms for living, dining, and working. Each furnishing or decoration that has been allowed to remain in this very minimalist space is perfectly aesthetic,
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Stitching Not Bitching
CHICAGO — John Chaich's exhibition Queer Threads considers artworks that use craft aesthetics to reclaim, reimagine, and renegotiate previously accepted hierarchies of visual culture.
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Reviving the Spirit of an Artist Through His Personal Collection
In the story of postwar American art, the middle of the country typically gets short shrift. The work coming out of Chicago in the 1960s and ’70s was gleefully weird, darkly surreal, and mostly figurative; for that, it was mostly overlooked, along with its practitioners. One of the biggest and most
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The Art of 3D Printing
CHICAGO — For artist Tom Burtonwood, the transition into 3D scanning and printing was as natural as popping food into a microwave rather than settling for cold leftovers.
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The People Behind Your Images of Luxury
In the artist's own words, Happy Hills documents the "predominantly Hispanic workforce who work tirelessly behind the scenes to maintain the beautiful imagery of these affluent areas." His interruptions of the glossy images feel effortless, transforming pictures we overlook but are influenced by eve