Art
A Detroit Bartender Paints Portraits of Heavy-Drinking Patrons
Painter Thelonius Bone says his new series, called "Alcoholics Anonymous," is about “wanting to be unknown and unseen, rather than about recovery."
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The Viscerally Uncomfortable Feeling of Being Transported to My Christian Upbringing
The immersive theater piece Rochester, 1996 captures with discomfiting specificity the world that millennials within conservative evangelicalism grew up in.
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An Insomniac Photographer Documents India’s Cities at Night
Over an eight-year period, Dhruv Malhotra spent sleepless nights wandering the streets of Noida, a satellite of Delhi, creating otherworldly photographs of the nocturnal cityscape.
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Rethinking the Laws of Nature at Helsinki's New Amos Rex Museum
The choice of the teamLab collective for the opening exhibition of the Amos Rex Museum indicates that the museum's mission is sharing the exuberant power of art.
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Seeing Ourselves in Animals Throughout Art History
The exhibition Stampede prods the viewer to consider how artists use animals to represent human traits and critique the world we humans live within.
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How Ellsworth Kelly’s Language of Abstraction Grew on Him
Kelly's early sketches of the natural world would define his work across mediums and throughout his career.
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Historical Memory Haunts Frank Bowling’s New Paintings
Now 84, the renowned abstract artist reflects on his Guyanese upbringing and the legacy of colonialism in a striking new series of paintings.
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A Brief History of the Color Pink in Fashion, from the 1700s to Today
A new exhibition at FIT chronicles the evolution of a “punk, pretty, powerful color” in the world of fashion.
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Challenging the Narrative of “Gentrification as Development” in Chicago
Peeling off the Grey, an exhibition at the National Museum of Mexican Art, offers visual understandings of the gentrification of one Chicago neighborhood.
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Kenny Scharf Switches Between Styles, Like Changing the Channel on a TV
"It’s like watching a show and switching the channel. You can go from cartoons, to soap operas, to the news, to science fictions."
Art
The Amazing Katherine Bradford
Bradford's new paintings represent a significant departure from her previous work, which gained many admirers, myself included. Simply put: she has gotten much better at getting at difficult subjects.
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Ian Hamilton Finlay's Philosophical Gardening
For Finlay, the garden was not simply a place of beauty, but rather a liminal space bordered by nature and culture, where visitors are invited to meditate on the different ways time passes.