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Poetry at the Root: Yoshimasu Gozo’s Art, Writing, and Music
TOKYO — It’s not often that a major art museum hosts an exhibition for a poet.
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Art, Work, and the Workaday
The lobby gallery at the Skidmore, Owings & Merrill-designed midtown office tower at 1285 Avenue of the Americas, with its partitioned walls flanked by floor-to-ceiling windows on the north and south sides of the building, is unusually well-suited for both casual and concentrated encounters with art
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Paintings of Detroit Ruins that Ring True
DETROIT — Nancy Mitchnick's representations of places — whether they refer to actual locations or states of mind — ricochet out into the real world, conveying a sense of how a place looks based on how it feels.
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Our Architectural Future Isn't What It Used to Be
Post–World War II, architects were confident that a better life could be built, that design could improve society through efficiency and community.
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An Artist Couple from Bangladesh Shares Their Deeply Political Work
EAST LANSING, Mich. — It’s most intuitive to equate activism with a kind of direct action: collecting signatures, participating in a public protest, sending sharply worded letters, community organizing.
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Prismatic Pictures of Playgrounds
Within the chaos of a city, filled with walls that appear bleak and gray because they block the sun, we have set aside certain spaces, glittering under slants of canyon light, where the solitude of urban life breaks for communal play.
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Paintings that Play Out the Rhythms of Sex
Jonathan Lyndon Chase is all about the funk.
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An LA Gallery Touches Down Awkwardly in Detroit
DETROIT — It is sometimes difficult to realize that a lot of what might be construed as who you are is actually a reflection of where you are.
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Getting Closer to Vermeer with Three New Books on the Artist
Vermeer died twice. The first time was in 1675, after the Dutch art market collapsed.
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The Tender Playfulness of Paul Klee
PARIS — The key to Paul Klee’s wonderfully shaped energy is not ironic detachment, as the title of the Centre Pompidou’s current retrospective suggests, but rather the playful and idyllic emotion he transmits through masterly line and dusty color.
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An Artist Attempts to Draw the Entire History of Vietnam
HO CHI MINH CITY — At times the downtown here can appear as one great, big construction site — gleaming Chanel storefronts arise around the corner from propaganda posters.
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The Sinuous Lines of Influence Between Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt
CLEVELAND — When I first saw the wall, I didn't see what was on it.