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Required Reading
This week, the US flag and Black protest art, walking into a rainbow, Obama's cold shoulder to the arts, a first look at the collection of the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art, and more.
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Weekend Words: Moderate
"Extremism in the pursuit of the Presidency is an unpardonable vice. Moderation in the affairs of the nation is the highest virtue."
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Black Women Artists Bear Witness in Red
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
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Required Reading
This week, the dawn of the Anthropocene, the true story of Bob Ross, Stuart Davis, Grangerizing, the future of "the American dream," the Dismal Swamp, and much more.
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Weekend Words: Confusion
"The mere attempt to examine my own confusion would consume volumes. "
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Monty Python Goes to the Art Museum
Given that so much of Monty Python's humor was predicated on testing and twisting codes of civility and decorum, it's surprising their Flying Circus didn't alight more frequently in that most stuffily decorous setting, the art museum.
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Discovering a Downtown New York Artist Who Disappeared for 30 Years
I had never heard of Jill Kroesen before a Whitney Museum press release landed in my inbox a few months ago
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Ellsworth Kelly Explains His Relationship to Abstraction
"I've always lived in the present tense, and I like my paintings to be in the present tense," Ellsworth Kelly begins his interview with the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) in 2013.
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When the Performance Artist Mr. Peanut Ran for Mayor in 1974
In 1974, artist Victor Trasov ran for mayor of Vancouver under the guise of his performance art persona, Mr. Peanut.
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A Glimpse of Photography's Hand-Colored Past
In the days when black-and-white photography reigned, professional colorists took on the task of creating technicolor views by meticulously painting pictures by hand.
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Kara Walker’s Puppets Dance in a New Music Video for Santigold
Even if you're familiar with artist Kara Walker’s signature shadow puppets, you've probably never seen them looking as cheerful as they do in electro-pop artist Santigold’s new music video.
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Simon Says This Is the Best Music Video Filmed in a Museum
For his 1999 hit single "Simon Says," the Queens rapper Pharoahe Monch used one of the borough's most sci-fi structures as a post-apocalyptic battleground.