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Unnerving Portraits Stage Close Contact Between Strangers
From 2007 to 2013, New York–based photographer Richard Renaldi approached strangers across the United States and asked them to pose together, close, as if they were friends or lovers.
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Thunderbirds and Underwater Panthers in an Overlooked American Indian Art History
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York is holding the first major survey of art by Anishinaabe artists in the Great Lakes region, with over a hundred works from artists both contemporary and ancient, all linked by the 10,000-year history of human settlement in the area.
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A Dark Assemblage of Doll Parts in a Hidden Upper East Side Gallery
Casa de Costa's new location on the Upper East Side takes over the two floors of a 19th century carriage house secreted behind an apartment building.
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The Mysterious Tale of Hawaii's van Gogh
The story of Arman Manookian, one of Hawaii's foremost modernist painters of the 1920s and '30s, is full of mystery and sadness.
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Typewriter Art, Online
The archival project Monoskop.org has posted the entirety of Alan Riddell's Typewriter Art (1975), an out-of-print volume collecting typographical artwork made between the 1890s and the 1970s.
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Putting the 'No' in 'Nostalgia'
This show at James Fuentes, instigated by various artists associated with an exhibition in 1980 called The Real Estate Show, is a reconstruction of a spontaneous action that began in late 1979.
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A Kid's Book for Adults Tells the Truth About Death
Everybody dies — that's both a truism and the name of new book by Ken Tanaka with David Ury, who may or may not be the same person.
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What Is an Object?
Before even opening The Object, Whitechapel Gallery and the MIT Press’s latest installment in the Documents of Contemporary Art series, the book’s title stares back, interpolates itself, asking questions: What is an object? Which object?
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The Lush Life of Virtual Architecture
PARIS — Jakob + Macfarlane’s drawings conceptually extol dandy artifice and knotted ambivalence while staying open to the breath of the voluptuous landscape.
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A Mainstream Museum Welcomes Two Old-Guard Experimentalists
I wasn’t quite sure what to expect upon entering the fourth floor galleries at the Museum of Modern Art for a collaborative performance, “illlummminnnatttionnnssss!!!!!!!” (2014), by old-guard experimentalists Simone Forti and Charlemagne Palestine. The pair had not performed together in over four d
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Portraits of Famous Artists with Their Little-Known Quirks
Did you know that the Chupa Chups lollipop logo was designed by Salvador Dalí? Or that Vincent van Gogh only sold one painting in his lifetime, despite the fact he created hundreds of works? James Gulliver Hancock has compiled these facts both familiar and strange into illustrated portraits of the a
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A Bilingual Globalism Between North and South America
BOSTON — Traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) from the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation's collection in Miami, Permission To be Global (Prácticas Globales) — the MFA's first exhibition of contemporary art from Latin America — calls attention to globalization within the institution's n