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Lina Puerta’s Art Mimics Botanical and Female Anatomical Forms
Puerta’s artworks strike a gentle balance between whimsy and sincerity.
Lina Puerta
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Artists Quarantine with Their Art Collections
“Placing the symbolic weight of this mayhem into the palm of my hand brings me comfort and hope.”
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Relics of a Future Environmental Collapse
Lina Puerta makes ruin porn on an unusually intimate scale.
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When Snakes Could Walk: Contemporary Artists Take On the Garden of Eden
In a 1483 German Bible, the Garden of Eden is depicted as a corralled green circle; Adam and Even are ejected from its manicured grass to a hilly wilderness, with a trail leading off into the unknown. This idealized interpretation of original sin sits alongside more modern takes on our relationship
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Sculpture on the Edge, Socrates Park
Even on a cloudy day, it's beautiful to get an opportunity to look across the East River at Manhattan from Astoria, especially when the view remains unobstructed by buildings, warehouses, elevated tracks, and all that other urban detritus. Socrates Sculpture Park provides an extraordinary view that,