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At Tate Modern, an Attempt to Free Georgia O’Keeffe’s Art from an Erotic Interpretation
LONDON — The opening of Tate Modern on London’s South Bank in 2000 changed the landscape of contemporary art in Britain.
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Exploring New York City's Silent Shores
The 600 miles of New York City's shoreline that secured its status as a center of trade in the 18th century now host some of its more forgotten spaces.
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Jean Tinguely's Clanging, Banging Machine Sculptures
PARIS — The crepuscular imbroglio at work in Jean Tinguely’s historic machine sculptures, currently on view at Galerie Georges-Philippe et Nathalie Vallois, is very much of the present moment.
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Where Do Banks Go When They Die?
Did you know that since the start of the last recession that over 527 banks have failed? How would we know?
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At a Historic House in Harlem, Artists Weave the Past into the Present
Sometimes it’s good to focus on the small victories.
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A Pair of Performances Exposes the Politics of How Museums Operate
The most conceptually compelling work of art in the Guggenheim’s But a Storm Is Blowing from Paradise: Contemporary Art of the Middle East and North Africa is also its least visible.
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Building a Black Identity That's Both Ancient and Contemporary
The first time I saw Stan Squirewell’s work was around two or three years ago.
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Questioning the Idea of Progress in an Exhibition on the Black Panthers
I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
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Reveling in the Pleasure of Process and DIY Culture
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "The work is the death mask of its conception," Walter Benjamin wrote about writing technique in his 1928 collection of essays One-Way Street.
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An Artist Attempts to Resensitize Us to Images of Violence
BOSTON — In “Inextinguishable Fire,” a digital video by Cassils, the artist assumes the aspect of a martyr while being enveloped by flames.
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A Lesbian Artist Who Painted Her Circle of Women at the Turn of the 20th Century
WASHINGTON, DC — Tucked into a far corner of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, an exhibit showcases the extensive career of artist Romaine Brooks, a turn-of-the-20th-century icon who’s since been largely forgotten by the mainstream.
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The Southeast Asian Artists Who Searched for a Regional Identity After Colonialism
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — For far too long, and to this day, Southeast Asia has been aestheticized, largely by the French, as a means to advance the role of the colonizer.