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In New York City, Punk Is in the Air
There was a week in high school when my mom begrudgingly let me stay out in New York City for almost three nights in a row.
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Quiet Drawings from a Life Lost in Mental Institutions
In one of the drawings discovered in a well-worn album, fished out of the trash in 1970 by a teenager in Springfield, Missouri, a wide-eyed woman points to a bouquet of flowers below the words "ECTLECTRC PENCIL."
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After Exile, an Artist Confronts the Aesthetics of Diaspora
Azzam gives each work an overarching sense of incompleteness, a longing for a place to which one can never return.
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Unraveling and Customizing the Language of Power
LOS ANGELES — Customizing Language explores how geopolitical power is expressed and managed through language, and enhances our understanding of it as a verbal communication system.
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Polaroids Steeped in the Fog of Memory
CURITIBA, Brazil — Despite Polaroid having officially discontinued its product in 2008, it has resisted extinction.
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Rendering the Anatomy of Our Hard Drives
For many of us, although a decent chunk of our digital lives exists on our hard drives, it's easy to not give the unremarkable metal boxes that quietly sit on our desks or shelves much thought.
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The Contemporary Cultural Life of Tokyo in 10 Themes
TOKYO — At the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo (MOT), the exhibit “Tokyo”: Sensing the Cultural Magma of the Metropolis reflects on the cultural life of the Japanese capital as it prepares for the 2020 Olympics.
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Artists Disrupt and Deconstruct the Modern Workplace
SAN FRANCISCO — I will admit that it had been a long day filled with mundane tasks — conference calls, email catch-up, copyediting — when I wandered into the exhibition Office Space, currently on view at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
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A Filipino Artist's Divine Deluges of Paint
Jigger Cruz is one of several young Filipino artists experimenting with new methods of painting, and his attempt to break with traditional representation has yielded a new form of automatism.
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Posters Portend the Mortal Hazards of Modernity
MIAMI BEACH — For every skyscraper, zeppelin, airplane, or even lightbulb that demonstrated the progress of technology from the late-19th to mid-20th century, there were countless human bodies mangled, maimed, and electrified along the way.
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A Fashion Icon Who Championed the Power of Personal Style
The Art of Style paints a stunning portrait of Jacqueline de Ribes, superficially a woman who embodied glamor and grace, but a peek beneath the surface showcases the broader complexities of her as an individual and creator.
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The Rose-Washed Past: Ron Haviv’s 'Lost Rolls'
I’ve long been fascinated by the various filters for Instagram and other digital camera apps whose names are simply years: 1969, 1972, 1977.