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Two Artists Document the Rise and Fall of Pittsburgh's Steel Industry
Sandra Gould Ford and LaToya Ruby Frazier reveal a side of the city that is rarely seen by outside observers or even many of its contemporary, white-collar locals.
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12 Revelatory Exhibitions from 2017
Each of these exhibitions showed me something I had not seen before.
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Skipping Across the Decades with Mark Dagley
Dagley's new exhibition at Spencer Brownstone is a case study in sustaining a varied, disciplined investigation of painting as structure and object-making.
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An Illuminating History of Modern Graphic Design
The Brooklyn-based publishing company, Standards Manual, has produced a series of meticulously crafted facsimiles of design manuals, from the New York City Subway to NASA.
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The Pursuit of Art, 2017
A year of truth-telling and electric painting.
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Walid Raad's Playful and Dead-Serious Experiments with History
Raad's latest exhibition in Beirut explores history, archives, and reality with his signature inscrutability and dry humor.
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Circling Back to Kenneth Noland
Noland's current exhibition at Yares Art, brings together prime examples of one of the artist’s signature motifs: concentric rings of color centrally and symmetrically ordered in square canvases.
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Birding with Max Ernst
In the Museum of Modern Art's current Ernst retrospective, the artist's avian alter ego, Loplop, reveals a realer reality.
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Mark Bradford Reimagines “Pickett’s Charge” to Include New Voices
Within Bradford's "Pickett's Charge," there is a rawness, a free construction that flies in the face of popular culture's insistence on a simplified historical and visual record.
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The Calling Cards of the 1970s and '80s British CB Radio Subculture
Eyeball Cards: The Art of British CB Radio Culture compiles hundreds of calling cards from the renegade 1970s and '80s Citizens Band (CB) radio scene.
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Ukraine's Monumental Soviet-Era Mosaics
Often unremarked or dismissed as state propaganda, Ukraine's Soviet-era mosaics are also artworks in themselves that speak to a complex history.
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An 18th-Century Compendium of Magic Revels in the Dark Arts
Touch Me Not from Fulgur Limited is the first color facsimile of a vividly bizarre 18th-century manuscript of the black magical arts.