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Astronomical Art of Intimate Proportions
CHICAGO — Five digitally animated images of the sun twist, flare, and twitch within each of their screens.
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If You Get This Reference, You'll Find John Waters's Exhibition Divine
Beverly Hills John, the John Waters show currently at Marianne Boesky gallery, features works by the artist in a variety of mediums, most born of image manipulation and/or appropriation.
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Copy Makes Perfect: Sturtevant at MoMA
The Museum of Modern Art’s current retrospective of Sturtevant’s work, Double Trouble, is a study in movement.
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The Coy Politics of Cheryl Donegan's Recycled Imagery
It made immediate sense to me that an artist who had cut her teeth making video works was able to transpose their sense of social commentary onto her formal works.
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Art with a Dose of Imperialism: Pierre Huyghe at LACMA
LOS ANGELES — Art world elitism permeates Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
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Keith Haring and the Artist as Witness
SAN FRANCISCO — At the end of the 2012 documentary How to Survive a Plague, we see a group of ACT UP protestors march on the nation’s capital with the ashes of their dead, a counterprotest to the exhibition of the AIDS Quilt on the Washington Mall.
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Master of Many
There used to be a time when curators could slap a label on a group of artists, claiming the work to be central, progressive, and an important part of their narrative of art history.
Performance
The Wild Wild Fests: New York's Gathering of the Theatrical Tribes
The roster of simultaneous festivals that regularly occur in January in New York can be overwhelming.
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Touch Screens and Tech Art Take Over Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — A festival is underway in this megalopolis with the ambitious proposal to impose ephemeral, technology-based public art on Chilangos as they go about their daily lives.
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Beyond Voodoo: Defying Expectations of Haitian Art
PARIS — Winter has been kind to art lovers in Paris.
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When Women Fought Nukes with Anarchy and Won
Brooklyn's Interference Archive is showcasing the work of the women who occupied the area surrounding England's cruise missile installation, reshaping British public opinion and attracting international attention to the nuclear arms race.
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A Gallery Looks Back on 40 Years of Showing Art in Brazil
Global recessions and armed crackdowns on protests are undoubtedly bad for art, but the old adage that hardship and suffering fuels creativity comes to mind when looking back at Brazil in the 1970s and considering the improbable success of Galeria Luisa Strina.