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An Artist’s Obsessive Paintings of Alien Madonnas and Romping Nudes
For over two decades, the Swiss artist Hans Schärer focused on painting the female figure, transforming conventional depictions of women into highly unexpected forms.
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Identities, Nations, and Histories Painfully Stitched Together
NEW DELHI — Hybrid creatures in legends and myths speak to our collective imagination as a tool to perceive that which cannot be perceived or understood.
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The Mysteriously Tiny Drawings of an 18th-Century Artist, Born Without Hands or Feet
In Wordplay: Matthias Buchinger’s Drawings from the Collection of Ricky Jay, opening today at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, there’s a 1724 engraved self-portrait that the “Little Man of Nuremberg” would have used to promote his act.
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A Show of African American Artists Resonates in Racially Divided Detroit
DETROIT — Can an exhibition be informed by the place it visits?
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Encountering a Frank Lloyd Wright House 1,200 Miles from Where It First Stood
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — On August 17, 1953, Gloria and Abraham Wilson sent a letter to one of the most famous architects in the United States. It began: "Dear Mr. Wright: Would you design a house for us?"
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Eggsploding the White Cube
Christopher Chiappa has installed 7,000 hyperrealistic sculptures of sunny-side-up eggs all over Kate Werble Gallery's pristine walls, concrete floors, steel ducts, fluorescent lights, and reception desk.
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The Radical Discos of 1960s Italy and Architectural Innovation
LONDON — Although Radical Design was short-lived, its conceptual outcome had far-reaching implications, and the issues raised by the movement have preoccupied successive generations of architects and designers.
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Drawing on Humanity's Animal Nature
PARIS — Karel Appel would start drawing by shimmering bright muck or line around until it eventually formed into semi-abstract philosophical lava, or monkey shit, or the poetry of release.
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The Modernist-Inspired Watercolors of a Pioneering Pueblo Painter
Tsireh's watercolors recall a remarkable period of creative art-making from the Native American community, and this exhibition gives him dimension and the recognition he deserves.
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Robert Smithson's Sacred and Profane Pop
Pop, an exhibition currently on view at James Cohan’s new Grand Street location, explores a more obscure phase of Robert Smithson’s tragically brief career: his figurative engagement with popular culture.
Books
The Design Nostalgia of Japan's Train Station Stamps
Railroad Station Stamp Designs captures the scope and evolution of these unique tokens, capturing the uniqueness of place through single small pictures.
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The Men Behind MoMA’s Taste for Modernist Design
Long before it became a cultural juggernaut, MoMA was helmed by a young intellectual named Alfred H. Barr Jr. who, from 1929 to 1934, worked in close collaboration with architect Philip Johnson to make the museum an influential platform for modernism.