Art
An Inquiry into Identity at ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is one of the central hubs for the ArtPrize activities that throw the city into a cultural frenzy each fall.
Reviews
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Hyperreal Landscapes, Digitally Transformed
Presenting vitas of sweeping landscapes paired with serene color gradients, Mark Dorf's photographs of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado ferry nature into fantasy.
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A Video Installation Immerses You in 1970s Brooklyn
From the window of his apartment at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, filmmaker Aldo Tambellini captured the slow changes in Brooklyn street life from 1971 to 1972.
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Artists Expose the Ecological Impact of Tech Production
SAN FRANCISCO — In Agbogbloshie — also known as one of the world’s top polluted places and an e-waste dumping ground, located in Ghana along the African coast of the Gulf of Guinea — a young man by the name of Mohammed Camara scavenges for metal to earn money.
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From Deforestation to Disappeared Populations, Bogota’s ARTBO Fair Reflects South America's History
BOGOTA — The 11th edition of ARTBO in Bogota, Colombia, held from October 1–4 at the Corferias convention center, was a sea of abstract and conceptual art.
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Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art as Activism
An oversize facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980.
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An Artist's Cryptic Letter from Kyrgyzstan
Liliya Lifanova’s Rumour from Ground Control is a modestly beautiful exhibition.
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Digital Distractions: 'Twin Peaks' Dance-Off, Skull Glitches, and an 18th-Century Opera Puzzle
Walk through a glitchy realm of skulls and flowers, have a Twin Peaks dance battle in the Black Lodge, alter an alternative reality, and experience an 18th-century opera as a puzzle.
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From Carcasses of Cloth to Race Riot Chess, Some Highlights of ArtPrize 2015
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — I can’t imagine I’m the only one who found ArtPrize 7 a little underwhelming.
Film
A Reverential Close-up of Robert Frank Leaves Questions Unasked
In its day, Auguste Rodin’s now esteemed 1876 sculpture "The Bronze Age" roused the considerable ill will of art critics, most notably for the belief that it was cast from a live model.
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The British Government’s Only Woman Artist in WWII Finally Gets a Retrospective
Evelyn Dunbar was the only woman to be salaried as an Official British War Artist during World War II, painting and sketching images of the home front, particularly the Women's Land Army where civilians were employed in agriculture to fill in for absent soldiers.
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Diagrammatic Paintings of Curious Contraptions
Henry Gunderson first made waves in his hometown of San Francisco a couple years ago with eccentric, surreal paintings of humanoid animals that I recall often stumbling upon on various image-sharing websites.