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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.
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An Exhaustive and Exhausting Survey of Martin Creed's Madcap Antics
For decades, the Park Avenue Armory was home largely to order and restraint, serving as the headquarters of the 7th Regiment of the New York Militia. It is now bursting with mayhem.
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Reader’s Diary: Rana Dasgupta’s ‘Capital’
My all-too-brief visit to Delhi last year ignited in me a desire to learn about the history of India.
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Killed By the State
A few weeks ago, while I was reading In the Empire of the Air: The Poems of Donald Britton, edited by Reginald Shepherd and Philip Clark, I was reminded of A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos (2011), edited by David Trinidad. This happens with poetry – one poem or book leads to another, l
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An Artist Who Possessed a Third Eye
Working in painting, drawing, assemblage, film, photography, photograms, performance, collage, and printmaking, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) made more discrete bodies of work across more mediums than any other postwar artist.
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Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s 'Come In Alone'
The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.
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Painting from the Ground Up
The first paintings you see in Construction Site, the new exhibition at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, are three slabs of red polyurethane resin with wood inlays by Noah Loesberg.
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J.M.W. Turner's Unloved Late Paintings; or, The Whales
Some days ago — never mind the count — having not much purpose in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and nothing in its galleries otherwise to interest me, I thought I would wander a little and found myself in the most watery part of the institution.
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The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
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The 18th-Century Anatomist Who Celebrated Life with Dioramas of Death
Like his anatomist peers, 18th-century Dutch scientist Frederik Ruysch preserved human and animal specimens for study, either dried or in jars.
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Milton's 'Paradise Lost' Rebooted as an 8-Bit Music Video
Since John Milton’s Paradise Lost was first published in 1667, many artists have attempted to visualize the biblical epic.