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The exhibition features 17 artists, whose wide-ranging works put the lie to prevailing notions that the weather is a soporific subject, that environmental issues cannot be made engaging.
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An artist helps us understand how crypto currencies are creeping their way into our global economies.
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Every year around September, mud-covered figures run amok in the streets of the Shimajiri District in Japan's Okinawa Prefecture, smearing dirt on anyone they encounter.
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The Grolier Club celebrates a century of Bruce Rogers's Centaur type, the "noblest Roman of them all."
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The best horror movie in New York City right now is Alex Prager’s La Grande Sortie, a 10-minute film playing on continuous loop at the Chrystie Street branch of Lehmann Maupin Gallery.
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It all began at a flea market in Frankfurt, when photo collector Jochen Raiß came across a picture of a woman wearing a summer dress and high heels.
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Somewhere in Artpark, the 108-acre state park in Lewiston, New York, is buried an Oldsmobile Vista Cruiser covered in tar and filled with 30 suitcases packed with consumer goods such as cigarettes, condoms, and magazines from Reader's Digest to Playboy.
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In his solo show Portraits at Anton Kern Gallery, Jonas Wood exaggerates the flaws of his subjects, an oddly refreshing sight in the age of Photoshop.
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Work becomes play in Peter Liversidge’s Twofold installation, though its proposals read so formally: “I propose to drop two hundred and fifty thousand 1 cent coins on the floor of the main gallery space.”
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Doreen Garner's sculptures vividly evoke the violence done to black women's bodies in the name of science and beauty.
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Alma Thomas was the sole black female artist in what became known as the Washington Color School, and the current exhibition reveals some of the complexity of her art.
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Walking through the tents of Frieze Art Fair last weekend, visual evidence of Brexit’s impact was all around.