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The Self-Taught Artist Who Casts Cardboard "Actors" in All His Films
NANTES, France — Benjamin Franklin’s maxim that “you can do anything you set your mind to” could not ring truer for the French self-taught filmmaker and artist Guy Brunet.
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The Ambiguity of Films Left Unfinished
An unfinished film can be any number of things.
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The Visual Indulgences of Furniture Made from Scraps
Stepping into Jessi Reaves's show at Bridget Donahue gallery, I was at once slightly thrown by the sense of having entered a showroom display.
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Yale's Center for British Art Reopens Its Historic Louis Kahn Building
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — At last week's reopening of the Yale Center for British Art, Matthew Hargraves, chief curator of art collections, called its Long Gallery "one of the great undiscovered spaces of the 20th century."
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Resurrecting the First VR Installation to Cross the Atlantic
HONG KONG — Maurice Benayoun’s new show at the Osage Gallery in Hong Kong, Just Dig It, consists of five latticed, skeletal metal sculptures capped by circular projector screens showing various 2D projections.
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A Black American Artist Explores Her Refusal of Christianity
“Direct Downward Cut at the Head; Overhand Knife Thrust”; “and where the blood ran fastest, there he whipped”; “To them God has appeared as a Negro”; "syntactical slips and breaks" — these are a sample of the bits of text affixed to the walls in Kameelah Janan Rasheed’s On Refusal.
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Tracing Imaginary Lines and Fluid Borders in the Midst of a Migrant Crisis
PARIS — Just outside the gates of the National Museum of the History of Immigration, an enormous, dreamy-faced, freestyle swimmer surges from the ground.
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Watching Relationships Build and Unravel in Philip Johnson’s Glass House
NEW CANAAN, Conn. — A man and a woman are separated by a grassy hill. He makes one movement — a snap, a jump — and she repeats it. They playfully signal to one another, flirting, perhaps like birds would do.
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Caught Up in Rosalyn Drexler's Dramatic Moments
WALTHAM, Mass. — Who Does She Think She Is? is a remarkable monographic exhibition of Rosalyn Drexler’s varied work.
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The Life of One of the 20th Century’s Most Influential Nude Models
"That which is the immodesty of other women has been my virtue — my willingness that the world should gaze upon my figure unadorned," Audrey Munson, the favorite nude model of the Beaux Arts movement in the United States, once proclaimed.
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A Three-Story Web Ensnares an Abandoned Building's Past Lives
PITTSBURGH — Inside 516 Sampsonia Way, a 19th-century row house in the Mexican War Streets neighborhood, there no longer appear to be any 90-degree angles.
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The Artist Bringing Neon Icebergs to the Arctic Circle
ISTANBUL — Bahar Yürükoğlu makes icebergs bleed neon colors.