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Combing Through the Hegemony of Hair
ANN ARBOR, Mich. — Sonya Clark is all about hair.
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Using Art and Archives to Map Out Turkey’s Recent Past
ISTANBUL — “Diyarbakır is under martial law. It is the most important city in Kurdistan. With its 250,000 citizens, it seems as if pacification has been imposed successfully. The army is omnipresent, but the monitoring seems to have loosened […].”
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Art That Forces Us to Face the Cruelty of the Human Animal
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The disclaimer “No animals were harmed in the making of this film” is something films like to let you know when it appears that some animals may have been harmed in the movie’s making.
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Korea’s Monochrome Painting Movement Is Having a New York Moment
The term Dansaekhwa, or “monochrome painting,” may elude readers unfamiliar with Korean, but it represents arguably Korea’s most important art movement of the late 20th century
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At Art Basel Miami Beach, Measuring a Calder Against a Raven
MIAMI BEACH — Aviator Charles Lindbergh is quoted as saying "that if I had to choose, I would rather have birds than airplanes."
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Sussing Out the Good Stuff at Art on Paper and Miami Project
MIAMI BEACH — The Deauville Beach Resort has been the home of the NADA art fair since 2009, but times change.
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Aestheticizing the Reality of a Polluted River
Originating in the Himalayas, the Yamuna river flows through New Delhi and accounts for more than 70% of the city’s water supply.
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At Pulse Miami Beach, Plants, Plants Everywhere
MIAMI BEACH — Perhaps it's because we're near the tropics or in palm tree central, but whatever the reason, the galleries participating in this year's Pulse Miami Beach fair are showing a generous selection of botany-focused works.
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Dreamlike Drawings in a Cavernous Coal Chamber
MEMPHIS — Down in a former coal chamber, accessed through a stained glass restoration studio, is Tops Gallery.
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Scale, Sculpture, and Specificity Prevail at Miami Beach's Untitled Fair
MIAMI BEACH — In a cavernous tent right on the sands of Miami Beach, Untitled Art Fair is opening this Wednesday with a sprawling group of international galleries.
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Compartmentalized Compassion: A 30-Year Survey of AIDS-Related Art in the US
TACOMA, Wash. — The Art AIDS America exhibit at the Tacoma Art Museum intends to move away from postmodern interpretations of art towards enjoining the viewer’s empathy.
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A South African Mural Tradition Transposed to Canvas and Clay
CAPE TOWN — Does art have the capacity to restore our disposition? I would venture a contingent response based on my experience of South African octogenarian Esther Mahlangu and her paintings, which evoke, albeit remotely, the play of stained glass windows and come across as both therapeutic and ele