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An Artist's Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.
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Contemporary Brazilian Artists at Home with Neo-Concretists
“The house was more than a skin ... an organism as alive as our own,” Lygia Clark wrote.
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When Postinternet Art Starts to All Look the Same
Molly Soda is an art darling of a generation that grew up with the internet as a constant companion.
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A Giant Prayer Wheel in the Heart of Times Square
A giant, beautifully hand-carved, wooden prayer wheel has appeared in the heart of Times Square, courtesy of Brooklyn-based artist duo FAILE.
Performance
Ignoring Broadway Hype in Favor of Intimate Theater
Annie Baker’s style could not be more different from that of Hamilton: her plays are long, light on plot, spoken not sung, full of lengthy pauses.
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From Punk to American Folk: Two Takes on Music and Politics
At the center of Folk City is a clue that the exhibit is more about space than about music.
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If Frida Kahlo Smoked a Blunt with Sylvia Plath
Sylvia Plath once got blazed with Frida Kahlo. This is the setting of Musas, which invites us to be a fly on the wall and listen in on these women's conversations as they smoke, eat, play, and work.
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Mark Bradford Maps the Suffering of Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.
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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
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Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.
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Tales from the Darkside: Narrative Drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum
CLINTON, NJ — To the Best of My Recollection is a rich, nasty and spirited show of works on paper by four Brooklyn-based artists in one of the most idyllic spots in western New Jersey.
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A Group Show Where Criticism Is Process
DETROIT — There seem to be two prevailing schools of thought among artists about process.