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Dalí and Duchamp’s Lasting Friendship, and the Art It Might’ve Inspired
For the first time, an exhibition explores these artists' friendship and the visual parallels within their distinct work.
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The Desolate Spanish Province Where Hollywood Westerns Were Filmed
Mark Parascandola's photos tell the strange, melancholy story of the erection, disintegration, and repurposing of the 1960s film sets.
Art
The Unfortunate Timeliness of Joseph Beuys
An exhibition covering major bodies of work reveals his urgent resonance for our troubled times.
Art
Toppling the White Man on the Pedestal
Doreen Garner and Kenya (Robinson)'s two-person exhibition examines the bloody history of white male supremacy and evokes the notion of karmic retribution.
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When Beauty Is a Draw and a Diversion
Tunji Adeniyi-Jones has discovered the benefits of unique stylization: objects and figures can be made in such a mannered way that they become visual metaphors, flexible in their vagueness.
Books
How Ghosts Became Transparent, and Other Spectral Evolutions
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens explores the evolution of the ghost in British art and literature, from Hamlet's father to Marley's ghost.
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The Seamless Weaving of Fine Arts with Crafts
Anissa Mack uses the county craft fair as inspiration, context, and content.
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The Artist Who Preserved the Vanishing Technology of Knots
Thou Shalt Knot at the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrates the legacy of Clifford W. Ashley, artist and author of the most influential book on knots.
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Walker Evans's Eye on the City
While Walker Evans may be best known for his photographs from small towns across the US during the Great Depression, an exhibition at SFMOMA shows him also as a longtime New Yorker fascinated with the particulars of urban life.
Books
Working at the Threshold of Prose
Renee Gladman investigates the moments when writing crosses over into another mode of expression.
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Nina Chanel Abney Paints on the Edge of Violence
Abney locates much of her work on the recognition that abuse and violence are an integral part of the everyday consciousness of people of color.
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Laura Owens and the Death of the Auteur
Owens’s mid-career works feel completely sterile, mainstream, and middlebrow — with just enough insider info to flatter the viewer who knows something about Roland Barthes.