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Luxurious, Terrifying Visions of Death in Renaissance Memento Mori
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is exhibiting memento mori objects from Renaissance Europe, often grotesquely designed to startle viewers into recognizing mortality.
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Revolutionizing the Erotics of Writing
For a writer whose life was so enmeshed with the experiences of being seen and talked about, Acker never truly established a fixed identity outside of language.
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The Incessant Art of Kazuko Miyamoto
The key to Miyamoto’s work is repetition that never becomes routine, no matter how mechanical the process might seem.
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The Exceptional Life and Political Art of Violet Oakley
Artistically, Oakley was the American counterpart of a British Pre-Raphaelite, but in terms of her social arrangements, she was decidedly a New Woman.
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The Past and Present of a Syrian-American Artist
Diana Al-Hadid is a cherished former student who is moving beyond talent into something much deeper and riskier, what Emerson called “the science of the real.”
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A Playful Take on the Still Life
Eliminating portraiture from her paintings and compressing the pictorial plane have allowed Holly Coulis to be more idiosyncratic, playful, convincing, and even funny.
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Swarming Geometry, Floral Colors, and Technological Space
Berran’s new paintings manifest an arresting, congenial gregariousness — while also showing their fangs.
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The Turbulent History of Global Chinese Art
The Guggenheim Museum’s Art and China after 1989: Theater of the World presents the conceptual and performance practices that brought Chinese artists into the discourse of global contemporary art.
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Perfection of Form, Color, Space, and Light
In the exhibition Excavations & Certainties, Theresa Hackett’s paintings and Shari Mendelson’s sculptures interact with a transcendence that turns the installation into its own immersive entity.
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An App that Visualizes the Digital Hotspots and Voids Around You
The White Spots app visualizes the invisible digital networks around us, and maps your escape to a "white spot," where there is no reception or internet.
Books
From Chocolate Gramophones to MP3s: The History of Sound in Images
The Art of Sound: A Visual History for Audiophiles by Terry Burrows is an illustrated history of recorded sound, from gramophones to the rise of digital.
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Photographs Revisit the Places Terminally Ill Patients Chose to See Before They Died
"Once visited by these terminal patients, these places aren’t just places anymore, they turn into monuments," artist Hrair Sarkissian said of his Last Scene project.