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In Terence Koh’s Bee Chapel, Confronting Loss Through a Vanishing Species
Transforming seven rooms at Andrew Edlin Galley, terence koh: bee chapel perplexes from its start.
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Paintings that Ridicule and Lampoon All-Powerful Men
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Men are dogs, but their shit grows into trees and their urine forms the sun as they defecate themselves in Tala Madani's oil paintings.
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A Comics Report on the Horrors of the Global Garment Industry
A heavily footnoted, absolutely depressing but crucial comics series reported by award-winning writer Anne Elizabeth Moore and drawn by artist collective Ladydrawers explores how our apparel purchases affect its majority-women workforce.
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3D-Rendered Visions of Dystopia, Inspired by the Housing Market Crash
PHILADELPHIA — Up the stairs on the second floor of Locks Gallery, you’ll find an exhibition of landscapes. These aren’t the boring, pastoral, plein air landscapes you’ll find for sale in droves up the street in Old City.
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Wind Turbines Sustain an Aquatic Garden on a Whitney Museum Terrace
Three circular pools are flourishing with aquatic plants on the fifth-floor terrace of the Whitney Museum of American Art, part of Virginia Overton's exhibition Sculpture Gardens.
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Meditative Video Portraits Composed Over Time
EASTBOURNE, UK — When artist Melanie Manchot started making work in the 1990s, she was deeply influenced by gender and feminist theories.
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A Mesmerizing Animation of Kung Fu Movements
From 19th-century photographer Eadweard Muybridge to Italian Futurist sculptor Umberto Boccioni, artists throughout history have attempted to capture the complexities of athletic human motion in their work.
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Guggenheim Ventures into the Future with Its Own Cryptocurrency
The Guggenheim’s latest online exhibition is an indulgent science fiction that brings the future to the present.
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Selling Insecticide with a Triptych Collage of 60,000 Dead Roaches
Pro tip for starving artists: The next time cockroaches infest your apartment, ask the exterminator to leave behind a few thousand dead bugs for you to turn into a massive collage.
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The Art of Drinking with a Friend
The first thing I did, after entering the gallery and introducing myself to the gallerist, was ask to use the bathroom.
Books
On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
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From Stitched Symbols to Painted Shadows, Connecting Two Artists’ Surreal Sensibilities
Two multicolored rocks, placed side by side, cast long shadows that lie flat before bending at the walls they intersect, as shadows typically do. But that’s all that’s typical.