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The Pompidou's Permanent Collection, Reinstalled Along the Lines of Art Theory
PARIS — Where the newness of art comes from (when it comes) is something of a conundrum.
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Plumbing the Highs and Lows of Pop Cultural Desire
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — “I want to know what love is,” artist Scott Northrup confides in me via email, and his reference to the Foreigner song of same name is neither ironic nor unintentional.
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Play a Tormented Painter in a Video Game of Creeping Terror
In Layers of Fear, a new game by the Poland-based Bloober Team, you are an artist who has gone completely insane.
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Worshipping at the Altar of Sweet Saint Death
With a scythe in one hand and a skeleton's face gazing out from a cloak, Santa Muerte appears like a cross between the Grim Reaper and the Virgin Mary.
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Designers Reinterpret the Confused Legacy of Le Corbusier for the Tech Age
The Swiss Institute’s second annual architecture and design exhibition attempts to recapture the revelatory voice of Le Corbusier for the technological age. The results are more cumbersome than visionary.
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A Mother Lode of a Show About Motherhood
MILAN — The most startling pairing in The Great Mother, an exhibition that tracks the iconography of motherhood in art and popular culture from 1900 to 2015, is a sculptural stand-off between Sarah Lucas and Thomas Schütte.
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Isa Genzken's Art of Disruption
Isa Genzken is not a Dadaist.
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Finding Art in the Smallness of Everyday Enthusiasms
INDIANAPOLIS — The domestic and personal are generally accorded critical attention when cast as dysfunctional; Michelle Grabner presents the domestic as a relatively positive creative force.
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Beaded Paintings, Epic Narratives, and Beastlands at a Midwestern Biennial
MINNEAPOLIS — Curator Cheryl Wilgren Clyne has brought together a satisfying, diverse array of Midwestern artists, with a mix of performative and interactive pieces as well as photography, painting, print, and even a living sculpture.
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Schizophrenic Compositions of Collapsing and Cascading Notes
Continuously creating since childhood, when he first cultivated a habit of collaging, British artist Eduardo Paolozzi boasts an oeuvre that is both prodigious and varied.
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A Charming Reverence for Color: Artists Revisit Paul Klee
For Alfred Barr, Director of MoMA, “not even Picasso approaches [Klee] in sheer inventiveness,” so this 20-artist exhibition, Paul Klee, is worth a look.
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An Artist Remixes Her Archive as an Act of Creation
The small gallery contains artworks that have all already been included in von Bonin's previous Petzel shows, yet the exhibition is entirely new.