Art
Copper Tomb Sculptures Show Rare Forms of Mesopotamian Portraiture
The ten statues in Founding Figures: Copper Sculpture from Ancient Mesopotamia, ca. 3300–2000 BC at the Morgan Library & Museum in Manhattan were never meant for our eyes.
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In Cambodia, War Widows Share Their Stories Through Art
BATTAMBANG, Cambodia — The Cambodia War Widows Project, which began seven years ago as a social practice project exploring photography as a form of art therapy, is now having its first gallery installation in Cambodia.
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Praying at the Altar of Genesis Breyer P-Orridge
The psychic cross — a cultic symbol adapted from the Eastern Orthodox Church — hangs above the Rubin Museum’s winding staircase, alerting you that something unusual is happening on the top floor of a museum devoted to Asian culture.
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Extending a Local Legacy, Bay Area Artists and Media Activists Fight for Social Justice
SAN FRANCISCO — Just around the corner from the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) — a veritable temple to wealth amassed in the form of contemporary artworks — the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has mounted a very different kind of installation, one which monumentalizes act
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The Heart of the Great Plains in 1970s Black and White
WASHINGTON, DC — Kansas is characterized as much by its skies as its ground, with clouds sweeping over the fields and towns that dot the heart of the Great Plains.
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Amplifying the Voices of Women Photographers in the Middle East
WASHINGTON, DC — In the dominant narrative about the Middle East, the voices of women are among the most difficult to hear.
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How Kerry James Marshall Rewrites Art History
CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon."
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The Bristol Milkman Who Drew the Architecture of WWII-Era Britain
Garth England was born in Bristol General Hospital in 1935, four years before World War II broke out. He worked for most of his life as a paperboy, a telegram boy, milkman, and railwayman. In his later years, he was also a secret artist.
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A Graphic History of Postal Stamp Design
Typically measuring no larger than one square-inch, postage stamps may not serve as the most welcoming canvases for creative expression, but countless have carried beautiful and ingenious designs.
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A Black Painter Who Found Aesthetic Liberty in the 1960s
LOS ANGELES — At first sight of the Green April exhibition at David Kordansky Gallery, it is fairly obvious that Sam Gilliam is a marvelous painter who is sensitive to color and hue, shade and saturation, and able to create vibrantly interstitial zones where an object is not quite itself and not yet
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The Uneasy Beauty of Joyce J. Scott’s Seductive Forms
BALTIMORE — The golden man is tiny, but he’s got a penis like a garden hose.
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How Artists Interpreted the Transformation of Paris into a City of Light
GREENWICH, Conn. — Everything was illuminated at the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, from 5,000 electric lamps igniting the Eiffel Tower to the Grand Waterfall, a cascading fountain animated by colored lights.