Art
“Something strange is creeping across me.” The first line of John Ashbery’s poem, “Daffy Duck in Hollywood,” came to mind while I was scrutinizing the modestly scaled, seemingly benign works included in Bloomfield, Jessica Rohrer’s latest exhibition of paintings and works on paper at PPOW.
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PORTLAND, Maine — Natasha Mayers is a tried and true activist artist. With few exceptions, her art — paintings and murals and the banners she helps create as part of the Artists Rapid Response Team, or ARRT — is focused on fighting for justice of every kind: racial, social, restorative, environmenta
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Looming over the pedestrians of midtown Manhattan is a monumental new work, “Big Clay #4” (2013–14) made by the Swiss artist Urs Fischer.
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VATICAN CITY — Modern art has achieved a slightly higher profile at the Vatican Museum these days (relatively speaking, of course): among other offerings, the recently opened Borgia apartments are currently filled with sometimes ordinary, sometimes exceptional selections of mid-20th-century Italian
Performance
For dancers, the body is a surrogate for concepts and a tool for arranging shapes in the air.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — Beneath the tumultuous skies of Oklahoma, the National Weather Center (NWC) is hosting its second curated exhibition interpreting meteorological phenomena through art.
Books
Postdigital Artisans: Craftsmanship with a New Aesthetic in Fashion, Art, Design, and Architecture, recently published by Frame Publishers, explores the works of 60 international artists working with or in response to the digital moment.
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LONDON — Theaster Gates's latest show at White Cube is, surprisingly, largely limited to paintings and sculptures.
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LOS ANGELES — The titles of the paintings in Viennese artist Verena Dengler’s first exhibition in the United States, at Thomas Duncan Gallery, rattle off the tongue like bad academic poetry.
Performance
What's in a light — a spark, a shot, a shiver?
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There is a contemporary preoccupation that our culture — global, Western, 'modern' — will not survive.
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If painting were merely a style — just an evocative pose channeling the gestalt of a time and place — then Don Voisine’s spare, elegant abstractions might be the equivalent of Leonardo DiCaprio in a tuxedo.