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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
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Drawing an Afro-Future with the Past and Present
LOS ANGELES — There is no mistaking the depth of investment in Flight Risk, Robert Pruitt’s new show at Koplin Del Rio.
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Ana Mendieta Comes Alive in Her Films
MINNEAPOLIS — The more time I spent in the galleries of Covered in Time and History: The Films of Ana Mendieta, the more I felt the lived presence of the artist herself.
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Paintings That Trick the Eye
Ryan Mrozowski has double vision.
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The Historic Painted Panels That Exposed the Hell of Hiroshima
After the atomic bomb that led to the deaths of over 100,000 people exploded in Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, artists Iri and Toshi Maruki entered the destroyed city
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Surreal Still Lifes of Objects and Their Memories
BIRMINGHAM, Mich. — The concept of “improvisational painting” might evoke the idea of loose compositions with abstract shapes — Kandinsky-like squiggles and half-formed images, or a visual jazz of color and texture.