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Negotiating Copyright and Copy-wrong in Architecture
There is no shortage of literature on copying in architecture.
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In Middle America, a Survey of Art from Latin America
DETROIT — The central piece, and the one that immediately draws the eye when entering the main gallery of United States of Latin America at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, is a full wall mural by Minerva Cuevas entitled “America.”
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At a Hanoi Prison Museum, a History Too Painful to Aestheticize
HANOI, Vietnam — The “Hanoi Hilton” is the sarcastic nickname bestowed by US prisoners of war on the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, formerly North Vietnam.
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The Genre That Wasn’t There: A Wide-Ranging Examination of Postwar Ceramics
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Leave it to a former professional studio potter to organize a wide-ranging exhibition of postwar ceramics that’s relatively free of hangups about form and function.
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A Strange Family Drama, Starring Found Object Sculptures
WASHINGTON, DC — The Black Box film series at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden isn’t where you'd expect to find a gaggle of teenage boys.
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A Photographic Portrait of Black Culture Around the Globe
CHICAGO — Deana Lawson’s photographs thwart easy notions of symmetry.
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The Art and Artifice of Macy's Santaland
In the midst of a tourist-filled holiday season, we decided to review a genre-busting installation at New York City's hottest, most innovative museum.
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A Show of Love for John Giorno's Poetry, Art, and Life
PARIS — Kudos to Ugo Rondinone.
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In a Time of Displacement, Arab Artists Negotiate the Meaning of Home
TORONTO — Home Ground provides a kind of vast cosmos that reflects the rootlessness of the immigrant experience and the challenge of finding, developing, and maintaining an identity.
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A Designer Experiments with Digital Design, After 60 Years of Handcrafted Furniture
Designer Wendell Castle has made a career out of challenging the boundaries that define art and furniture.
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Master of the Lost, Neglected, and Overlooked
A number of innovative artists of the first half of the 20th century discovered and worked with collage and the related practice of assemblage.
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For the Love of Paint
Ambition has nothing to do with scale. The largest painting in Eleanor Ray: paintings at Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects measures 10 x 8 inches.