Art
A Meditative Hunting Trip in an Interactive Story
Blood-soaked snow and the waxy green of conifers color the pensive landscape of The Last Hunt, an interactive story produced by the Digital Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
Review
Art
A Tale of Two Exhibitions and the Politics of Forgetting
BARCELONA — The study of the history of exhibitions allows us to “shuffle the deck of art history,” as Robert Rosenblum wrote in his essay for the 2000 exhibition 1900: Art at the Cross-Roads.
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Artists Visit a Spiritual Medium and Make Work About It
Eight artists spent time in psychic sessions with a medium before evoking their experiences in paintings dripping with texture, a video of a morphing eye, and a curious dollhouse.
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Alec Soth's Photographs Mine the Margins of the US
SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Soth’s latest multi-year investigation of life in the hinterlands of the United States is a refined version of the now venerable notion of the photographic road trip.
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Family Portraits Left Incomplete
HO CHI MINH CITY — Trong Gia Nguyen was only three years old when he was crammed into a Renault Dauphine with 13 other family members and driven to the Saigon docks on April 30, 1975.
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Cuba's Cinematic Revolution
Critical, frenzied, imaginative, and committed, the works of Communist Cuba’s first generation of filmmakers helped reinvigorate and reinterrogate revolutionary cinema.
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Joyce Pensato's Messy Imagination, Laid Bare
Joyce Pensato is best known for her stark, large-scale paintings of cartoon characters and in particular for her series of Batman paintings that depict the cape crusader’s iconic mask using splashy skeins of black and white paint.
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Surveying Surveys of New American Sculpture and Photography
Concurrent surveys of new American art in two specific media — New American Sculpture at FiveMyles and Under Construction – New Positions in American Photography at Pioneer Works — reinforce just how interdisciplinary their respective fields have become.
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Out of This World, Domestic Objects Transcend Their Daily Use
New York is a big art city, with big art fairs, big museums, and lots of big concept art.
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An Exhibition of 100 Masks Shows Humanity's Enduring Thirst for Transformation
Around 100 masks of every contorted grimace imaginable, both human and animalistic, are assembled on the top floor of the Rubin Museum of Art for the new exhibition Becoming Another: The Power of Masks.
Books
The Bleak Banality of Shopping in Communist Europe
"In a cityscape largely without commercial seduction, the banality of the shop windows underscored a real cultural difference between East and West," photographer David Hlynsky writes in his introduction to Window-Shopping Through the Iron Curtain.
Art
The Men Who Manufacture Scientific Doubt
Merchants of Doubt, the latest documentary film by director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc., among others) uses a magician's sleight of hand as an allegory for the conning of the American public by a handful of corporate lobbyists and public-relations mercenaries.