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Mark Bradford Maps the Suffering of Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.
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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
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Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
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Tales from the Darkside: Narrative Drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum
CLINTON, NJ — To the Best of My Recollection is a rich, nasty and spirited show of works on paper by four Brooklyn-based artists in one of the most idyllic spots in western New Jersey.
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A Group Show Where Criticism Is Process
DETROIT — There seem to be two prevailing schools of thought among artists about process.
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Kinetic Sculpture that Moves at a Snail-like Pace
PARIS — I particularly admire Pol Bury’s (1922–2005) shimmering, kinetic work when it almost imperceptibly quivers.
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African Artists Take a Seat at the Table
Boundary lines make up much of the Richard Taittinger Gallery’s current exhibit, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? — lines that, like borders, criss and cross, divide and obscure.
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Barbara Kasten’s Slippery Analog Photography
PHILADELPHIA — Talking about the limitations of photography, painter David Hockney said that art “must deeply involve an observer whose body somehow has to be brought back in.” At the time, he was pessimistic about the medium’s possibilities. Enter Barbara Kasten.
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A Catalogue of Violent Design in the 21st Century
MoMA's online initiative Design and Violence was an 18-month experiment in addressing the brutality of 21st-century design.
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Revisiting a Jewish Ritual with Nicole Eisenman
Nicole Eisenman's painting "Seder" puts the viewer at the center of a formal Passover family gathering.
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An Artist’s Engineering Feats with Flimsy Materials
BERLIN — Walking into the Hamburger Bahnhof brings back a very formative moment in my art education.
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Drawn Self-Portraits Materialized as Masks
For her Second Self photography series, Canadian artist Meryl McMaster asked her subjects to blindly draw single-line contours of their faces, which she then sculpted into wire masks.