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Call This Psychedelic Video's Hotline to Hear "A Special Message from the Astral Gem"
For a good time, call 1-844-ASTRAL LOANS: Staticky smooth jams and a silky-voiced robot will welcome you to “The Caged Pillows Feeling Network.”
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Meditation, Improv, Forced Chuckling, and More at a Gallery Sleepover
CHICAGO — I bend my head down, eyes shut tight, and reach my hands up over my head towards the center of the circle.
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The Many Lives and Losses of the Western Hemisphere's Oldest Museum
BALTIMORE — Most contemporary art museums operate in service of the art they exhibit, the setting playing a secondary role to artists’ intentions.
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Personal Anxieties and Institutional Strictures Rendered in Wire and String
With a dark humor that partially stems from her youth in the former Czechoslovakia, Kot'átková explores the private self within institutional and ideological constructs.
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On One Block in Chelsea, Three Monumental Installations Empower and Overpower
In a small, über-blue chip stretch of 21st Street in Chelsea, three adjacent galleries are concurrently running exhibitions that feature a series of monumental art pieces that move between refined, processed, man-made materiality to earthen structures, and plant life that grows from the soil.
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The Human Stories that Bind Cambodia and Vietnam
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — What makes a border?
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From a Cave Church to a Fairy Tunnel, an Outdoor Exhibition Revels in Turkey's Landscape
CAPPADOCIA, Turkey — Let Us Cultivate Our Gardens wants us to be present, to look at the land of Cappadocia and its heritage, but also to disassociate from its preciousness and instead revel in its vitality.
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Dancing to the Glacial Rhythms of Ice
“There is no surer way to be derivative than to be unaware of your history,” dancer-choreographer Jody Sperling said in a 2014 interview.
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The Open Works of Felix Gonzalez-Torres
LONDON — Every time Gonzalez-Torres’s work is exhibited, a critical opportunity arises.
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A Smithsonian Pop-up Show Finds Common Ground in Our Eclectic Stories
WASHINGTON, DC — I had a moment of hesitation when walking into the CrossLines exhibition, particularly when I saw the subtitle, “A Culture Lab on Intersectionality,” and the blurb that further claimed that “40+ artists and scholars explore race, gender, class, ethnicity, religion, sexuality and dis
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Sly Memorials to US Presidents Past and Present
On first seeing an image of Barack Obama’s head festooned with small figurines of previous United States presidents I took an immediate dislike to Brian Tolle’s solo show POTUS at CRG Gallery.
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Ceramic Vases that Contain All the Beauty and Ugliness of US History
PHILADELPHIA — Of all the astonishing things Roberto Lugo has done in his career — from creating a DIY potter’s wheel and mixing his own clay from dirt in an urban scrapyard, to creating a new genre of hip-hop-inflected political porcelain — the most radical might be that he is head over heels in lo