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Signs and Banners From the 2019 Protests in Downtown Beirut
Slogans and images have appeared all over downtown Beirut since around-the-clock protests started on Thursday, October 17.
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From Domestic to Introspective, Highlights From Gowanus Open Studios 2019
While much of the work leaned heavily towards the commercial — from functional ceramics to jewelry and affordable prints — a group of standout artists investigated the personal by starting with the universal.
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The Glamour of 1950s Senegal in Photographs
The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation and Le Korsa helped restore the extensive archive of Roger DaSilva, whose black-and-white images joyfully document Senegal's nightclubs, upscale weddings, and cultural events.
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Thousands of Gemstones and Beads Went Into These Moldy Fruit Sculptures
Like classical still life paintings, these viral works from artist Kathleen Ryan remind us of the transience of life.
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A Wide Spectrum of Ideas and Artist Studios in Brooklyn's Sunset Park
At the second iteration of Sunset Park Wide Open, artists displayed a collective need to challenge assumptions around materials and concepts.
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The New MoMA: A Mix of Innovative Choices and Missed Opportunities
The renovation aims to be big enough to not only hold the institution’s art, but its promises.
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Garden-Hose Sculptures, Seductive Landscapes, and More Brighten a Rainy Night on the Lower East Side
Despite torrential downpour and poor turnout, there were some excellent exhibitions on view for the second annual LES Art Night — most of which will continue throughout the remainder of the month.
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Largest Private Collection of African American Quilts Donated to a Berkeley Museum
The estate of art scholar and collector Eli Leon donated nearly 3,000 quilts to the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
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Designing a Sculptural Synthetic Skin
Holly Hendry’s works offer an innovative view on the repurposing of materials in art, exploring how things usually considered to be trash can be recycled.
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Antony Gormley Explores the Body as a Space Within a Space
This exhibition, Antony Gormley returns repeatedly to the motif of the artist’s own body to explore the significance of differences in scale and the negative space around an artwork.
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Banksy Opens London Art Shop Same Week He Sets $12M Auction Record
The anonymous artist has opened a shop in the south London borough of Croydon to showcase some of his characteristically humorous items.
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A Symposium for Sea Kelp
At Norway's Lofoten International Art Festival, seaweed took center stage as subject and material for artists and researchers as part of their "Kelp Congress."