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The Artist as Conjurer of Illusions and Truths
CLINTON, NY — There are multiple magics at work in the art of Renée Stout.
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Interactive Art About Climate Change in a City Where It Will Wreak Havoc
HIALEAH, Fla. — When Florida Governor Rick Scott took office in 2011 and appointed Herschel Vinyard, Jr. as the director of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (D.E.P.), a curious rule went into effect: D.E.P. employees were not to use the terms “global warming” or “climate change” in
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In Five Decades of Self-Portraits, an Artist Refuses to Tone Down Her Feelings
DETROIT — Brenda Goodman has been steadily doing her thing for decades, moving from early success within the Cass Corridor movement in her native Detroit, to a varied career in New York City, and finally to her current retreat in the relative sanctity of the Catskills.
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The Shifting Seasons of One of China’s Oldest Public Parks
CHENGDU, China — The first public parks began appearing in China in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, but it wasn’t until after the Communist revolution that they became centers of urban life.
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Fashioning an Identity for a Puerto Rican Painter on the Cusp of Modernism
The current exhibition of paintings by Francisco Oller at the Brooklyn Museum is a provocative and difficult show — a collision of curatorial strategies and recalcitrant artwork that defies the interpretive armature.
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Artists of the African Diaspora Cast Off the Legacy of Displacement
A solitary figure standing against the far wall of the gallery, Sable Elyse Smith says: “My father was a drug dealer and loved me.”
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At Home with Vilhelm Hammershøi
The room is quiet. We stand on the fringes, in the shadows, divided from the softly luminous space that’s momentarily brought into the light.
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Two Decades of Life in Prison Drilled into Ostrich Eggs
Beginning in his early twenties, Gil Batle spent two decades in and out of five California prisons, mostly for fraud and forgery of documents from IDs to checks and credit cards.
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Tate Modern’s Absorbing but Haphazard Look at Global Pop Art
LONDON — The World Goes Pop is an exhilarating collection filled with fizzing energy, so its curatorial messiness can be forgiven.
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Composing a Symphony of War with Instruments and Everyday Objects
What does war sound like? For Samson Young, it’s calm, somewhat foreboding — human, organic, often silent but with bursts of technological noise.
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Olafur Eliasson's Sundial of Melting Icebergs Clocks In at Half-Past Wasteful
PARIS — In the aftermath of November’s terrorist attacks and the ruling Socialist Party’s meltdown following a strong first-round showing for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, I glummly went to the Place du Panthéon to see Ice Watch Paris, an exhibition of melting icebergs by Danish re
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The Postmodern Political Art of 1990s Mexico City
PHILADELPHIA — In the wake of major governmental ineffectiveness following a massive earthquake in 1985, artists in Mexico City began building a vibrant DIY arts movement and searching for less traditional modes of expression.