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Two Artists Use Pharmacological Aesthetics to Show Capitalism’s Sickness
MOSCOW — Is there an intrinsic relationship between individual addictions and mechanisms of collective control? Critic and theorist Boris Kliushnikov seems to think so.
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A Sprawling Show of Artists as Social Critics
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Spanning several media, much of the work in Us Is Them makes social commentary from the perspective of underrepresented populations. Notably, the show features some of the biggest names in contemporary African-American art, bringing the focus on the fraught nature of black existence
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Contemporary and Historic Ledger Art Joined in a Seamless Native Narrative
Too often museums exhibit indigenous art of the United States as artifacts made by ghosts, even though many of these traditions are still inspiring contemporary creators.
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Three Museums Come Together to Tell a History of African American Art
MUSKEGON, Mich. — Common Ground, the Muskegon Museum of Art’s current exhibition of African American art, combines works from three regional Michigan collections: the Muskegon museum, the Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, and the Flint Institute of Arts.
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A Biennial on a Bus Examines the Leisure and Labor of Travel
"There are no rules on this bus."
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Dismantling the Conventions of Monuments
DENVER — Define monument art. Is it distinguished by its material, size, or relationship to a specific event?
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Photographs of Crumbling Asylums, Where Architecture Was Designed to Cure
Last October, the domed 19th-century building that stood as the centerpiece to New Jersey's Greystone Park Psychiatric Hospital was demolished.
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An Artist Dissects Found Bits of Language
Trained as an anthropologist, Erica Baum views the mundane objects integrated into our daily lives as artifacts that can reveal larger meanings.
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Unlocking the Mysteries of Manhattan's New Pyramid
It’s almost difficult to tell the story behind Via 57 West, the new Bjarke Ingels Group-designed residential high-rise now welcoming its first tenants on Manhattan’s west side.
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The Met Breuer Traces the Unfinished to the Deliberately Incomplete in Western Art
At a press preview earlier this month, Sheena Wagstaff, the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s chairwoman for modern and contemporary art, said that “arguably only the Met” could put on a show like Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible.
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Hearing a Symphony in the Cacophony of a Lagos Market
Every city has its own sounds, its distinct murmur and roar of voices and traffic.
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Nine Mexican Women Fight Stereotypes in Their Printmaking
MINNEAPOLIS — Animals populate the prints on view at Sus Voces, a group exhibition at Highpoint Center for Printmaking, featuring nine female Mexican printmakers working in traditional techniques.