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I’ve never played Grand Theft Auto (GTA), but I have spent a decent amount of time watching a hacked — or, rather, “modded” — deer running through the GTA V live game, and I think this deer has something to tell us.
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SAN PEDRO, Calif. — The exhibition gestures to the land and sea present in the artistic imaginary of San Pedro, where viewers get to take in “reimagined vehicles wobbling across scrutinized infrastructure.”
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MINNEAPOLIS — On my first visit to Emmett Ramstad’s Touching Each Other exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Art (Mia), I completely missed the pubic hair.
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The first sensation visitors to Anima at the Invisible Dog in Brooklyn experience is disorientation, as they walk through a dark tunnel made from scraps of wood that seem pulled together by a vortex.
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Without being heavy handed, Tegg’s exhibition reminds us that this connection to the animal kingdom (of which we are a part) is integral to our survival, at least for as long as we require bodies to function in the physical world.
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If cities had such things as official botanicals, New York City's might be the flower bouquet.
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PHILADELPHIA — While teaching at Jefferson School of the Social Sciences in New York around 1949, Norman Lewis began to draft an artist’s treatise in which he laid out his teaching theories, and, more intriguingly, his ideas about the role an artist should play in society.
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Providence, Rhode Island-based multi-hyphenate Brian Chippendale is best known as the masked drummer and howling vocalist of noise-rock duo Lightning Bolt. He’s also a RISD dropout, cartoonist, and artist.
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In the mid-19th century, the Chincha Islands were at the center of a now-forgotten resource war that involved major world powers.
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Last summer I found this copy of a book I’d long been curious about on the “discard” shelves of the East Hampton Library.
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You know something is going on when you stare at work hanging on one wall and forget to look at what is on the gallery’s other three walls.
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Many writers – including, most recently, Peter Schjeldahl in the venerable magazine, The New Yorker – have characterized David Hammons as “elusive” and “difficult.” According to Schjeldahl: “The artist spoke with me, bracingly and delightfully, for a column in this magazine, in 2002. He wouldn’t do