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An Introduction to the Hungarian Neo-Avant-Garde of the 1960s and ’70s
An exhibition at Elizabeth Dee gallery offers a dense survey of a little-known topic, but without enough information.
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From a Jade Burial Suit to Terracotta Warriors, a Blockbuster Display of China's Ancient Treasures
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Age of Empires features over 160 archaeological finds, mostly from shrines and royal tombs from the Qin and Han Dynasties.
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Lucio Fontana's Psychedelic, Ceramic Crucifixes
The artist best known for his slashed canvases made a series of clay Christ figures between 1948 and 1961.
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How Not to Look at Pictures
Robert Walser was likely to find in images a reason to look into his own fervent imagination.
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Will Someone Please Give Ellen Berkenblit a Museum Show Already?
It is as if each of Berkenblit's distinctive works is an isolated, oversized panel from an unknown cartoon strip: we have no idea what happened before or what will happen next.
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Storms of Sea, Sky, and Paint
The driving force behind Peder Balke’s painting is his desire to harness paint’s capacious materiality, from impasto to liquidity, to evoke the changing, often tumultuous physicality of his subject matter.
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Changes on the Land: 19th-Century American Photography East of the Mississippi
East of the Mississippi highlights how early photographic efforts homed in on Americans’ leisure pursuits, particularly travel to popular getaway spots such as Niagara Falls and New England’s White Mountains.
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Merrill Wagner's Puzzles in Color and Tape
Wagner’s method is as straightforward as it is mind-bogglingly precise, so much so that it took a great deal of close scrutiny to fully grasp exactly what she is doing.
Books
One Landscape Architect’s Quest to Understand the American Campsite
Surveying almost 6,500 American campgrounds through their online reservation sites, Martin Hogue mapped the small differences and mass uniformity of this distinct landscape.
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A Photographer Who Uses Color to Hint at Her Own Presence
The latest issue of Aperture focuses on Africa and features strong, colorful images by the Kenyan photographer Mimi Cherono Ng’ok.
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Shamanistic Paintings as Metaphors for Connectedness
In his first solo show, Franck Lundangi uses mystical imagery to portray links between humans and nature.
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Nancy Spero's Festival of Death
Originally made for the 2007 Venice Biennale, the artist's "Maypole: Take No Prisoners" manifests the spectacle of violence and war.