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While writers have drawn a line, so to speak, between Soriano and Sol LeWitt, it seems to me that there are profound differences between their wall drawings. Whereas LeWitt’s self-contained works make no reference to the changes of everyday life, Soriano’s are based on time, light, and shadows cast
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How did a sharply dressed insurance agent with a desultory love life, who preferred brothels to relationships, who held crappy middle management jobs before retiring early due to poor health, become, as his one-time lover Milena Jesenská puts it, a “clairvoyant” storyteller, let alone one with a sti
Music
There’s a paradox at the heart of this music: constructing a simulation of hedonism takes extraordinary discipline.
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Don Voisine’s pieces demand attention; you need to study them up close and from a distance to fully appreciate the illusions the artist creates by way of a handful of shapes and a limited but resonant set of colors.
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A mix of blue-chip names and energetic younger artists on the Lower East Side is further evidence of the increasingly blurred boundaries among Manhattan’s art districts.
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Exhibitions in Seoul devoted to Wook-kyung Choi and Yong-Ik Kim give a sense of Korean artists' vibrant responses to the monochrome Dansaekhwa movement of the 1970s.
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Artist duo McDermott & McGough's show is filled with campy critiques of homosexual oppression through the ages.
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An exhibition honors the struggles of African Americans from the politically militant 1960s to the present.
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An exhibition at Western Michigan University examines how South African artists are using fashion as a way to either portray individuality or represent communities in their work.
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The Free Portrait Project reminds us that if we take the time to interact with our neighbors, it can become a point of empowerment in understanding our communities.
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Gregory Amenoff’s paintings mix influences with knowing exuberance.
Music
In 1761, Benjamin Franklin invented an instrument eventually thought by some to drive its players out of their minds: the armonica, which produced the same echoing, high-pitched sounds as singing water glasses. Made of glass bowls nested into one another, with the entire stack skewered with a spindle, the instrument