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Artists Embrace the Grayscale
Gray Matters, featuring 37 artists working almost exclusively in shades of gray, is a dazzling exhibition.
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Playing with Words in the Most Linguistically Diverse Place in the World
At Flux Factory in Queens, Tongue Tide treats other languages as treasure chests of unique expressions.
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Radical Art from the Past Decade, from Tahrir Square to Recife
In MoMA’s Unfinished Conversations, artists around the world engage with today’s political struggles while exposing their personal, cultural, and historical roots.
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Painting Cosmic Phenomena with Patterns of Subatomic Decay
Kysa Johnson represents nebula, neutron stars, and star clouds using the spiraling paths of the tiniest particles.
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Carnal Humans and Bookish Animals Cohabitate in a Sprawling Video Installation
At Tyler Rollins Fine Art, Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook’s complex, fragmented narrative features goats being read French philosophy and horses getting lectured on Plato.
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Hokusai’s “Great Wave” Was Only a Drop in the Bucket
Already fully accomplished by his fifties in a range of styles, from his sixties Katsushika Hokusai’s paintings and prints begin to accelerate in ambition and sophistication, leaping between styles and subjects.
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Seeing 1970s Italy Through Its Subversive Public Broadcasting Network
Francesco Vezzoli has delved into the archival material of Radiotelevisione Italiana, shaping a narrative of the culture, politics, and entertainment of the period.
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Five Centuries of Robotic Machines Reflect Human and Technological Change
Five centuries of robots, from clockwork monks to mechanical actors, are explored in a major exhibition at London's Science Museum.
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Algorithmic Art That You Can Blow On, Walk Through, or Dance Over
The inaugural exhibit at ARTECHOUSE, a new gallery in Washington, DC focused exclusively on digital art, is both dramatic and quietly poetic.
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Nari Ward Gets the G.O.A.T.
With his current show at Socrates Sculpture Park, Nari Ward takes the lawn ornament to some odd, hallucinatory places.
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A Museum Built Among Ancient Ruins Impels an Inward Gaze
In other museums, fragments of the past are isolated into forgotten history, but at Kolumba, they are part of a dynamic whole.
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Beverly Buchanan's Shack Sculptures Feel at Home in Detroit
An exhibition at David Klein Gallery brings together Buchanan's evocative shack constructions and pastel drawings.