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From Silver Screen to Boob Tube, Mass Media Art Goes to the White Cube
That film is open to all sorts of escapes, inspirations, and incursions has long been the stuff of movies.
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From Fluxus to Selfies, Photographs that Blur the Performative and the Real
LONDON — Five figures stand cocooned in the radiating steel cables of the Brooklyn Bridge — four of them are naked and covered in painted spots, hanging out beneath a banner that reads “SELF-OBLITERATION.”
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Surveying Modern and Contemporary Art's Embrace of Ceramics
PARIS — Conversations about art and medium-specificity are almost always conversations about history.
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The Disconcerting Beauty of an Artist's Nude Self-Portraits
Rowan Renee's highly personalized images offer an optimistic and curiously romantic glimpse into her secret world as she works through the long-term psychological trappings of incest, latent anger, and the ability to overcome adversity through telling her story.
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Chris Martin Finds a Muse in Amy Winehouse
LOS ANGELES — Paintings about painting are really about life, proposals for how it might be lived.
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The Praise and Prejudices Vigée Le Brun Faced in Her Exceptional 18th-Century Career
The daughter of a pastelist and a hairdresser, Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun (1755–1842) painted and befriended Marie Antoinette, escaped the horrors of the French Revolution, and forged a career as one of the 18th-century’s greatest portraitists.
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Architecture's Impenetrable Imagery and Rarely Seen Machinery
BERLIN — The interplay of flatness and dimensionality in Franka Hörnschemeyer’s site-specific installations yields images seemingly more penetrable than the adjacent structures.
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Paintings that Set Letters and Language Free
The poet James Schuyler once described the tidal influence that the New York art world had on the poetry he and his friends were writing as "floods of paint in whose crashing surf we all scramble."
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The Flattering Tricks of 19th-Century Portraiture
For the wealthy 19th-century elite, a portrait rendered by a respected artist was a signifier of status — an oversized and ostentatious calling card.
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Seeing with the Body at a Virtual-Reality Art Show
In the largely uncharted technology of virtual reality, artists must invent the medium as they engage with it.
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Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.