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A Photographer in Conversation with William Blake
There are at least three exhibitions in Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan currently at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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The Languages of Bernar Venet’s Conceptual Poetry
Since the outset of his career, Bernar Venet has been an inveterate experimentalist, an intrepid worker in a surprising variety of media. “People know my sculptures, of course,” he says, most likely referring to the monumental steel arcs that have garnered him international renown, “but they don’t k
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Delving into Multiple Depths: Barbara Henning’s 'A Day Like Today'
Poems preoccupied with geography, for the impatient reader, can feel less like landscapes and more like land mines to be avoided.
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Saintly Collages of Everyday People
In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is highlighting women artists.
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Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
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A String Spectacle Designed for Selfies in a DC Warehouse
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent Howard University architecture grads Tolu Rufai and Khai Grubbs are luring people to an abandoned warehouse in Northeast DC with nothing but yarn … and the promise of Instagram likes.
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The History of NYC's First Nine Landmark Parks
On a July morning, at the tender age of five, I watched the building next to my Bronx tenement capitulate to the blows of a wrecking ball.
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Surreal Photographs of Chinese Amusement Parks in Hibernation
Italian photographer Stefano Cerio has captured ski resorts at night, empty cruise ships, drained water parks, and, most recently, the uncanny bleakness of China's off-season amusement parks and other constructed entertainment.
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35 Years After Fashion Moda, a Bronx Gallery Revisits the Landmark Space
1978. Weary of the SoHo art scene, artist Stefan Eins decided to open a new art space in the South Bronx. The space was named Fashion Moda (1978-1993) an abbreviation of the full name painted above its entrance: Fashion 时装 Moda МОДА.
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Plastic Purses and Comic-Book Catalogues: American Postwar Art at the Margins
Life-size knit body suits mingle with painted metal lawn chairs, plastic purses, and rows of zines and ephemera in the summer show at Matthew Marks Gallery, What Nerve!, which gathers the work of four outlying postwar art groups in the United States.
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The Twisted Delights of Abject Art
During the summer, as Labor Day approaches and people flee the city for vacation, Ferris wheels and circus tents can be seen in the distance announcing the arrival of fairs across the counties.
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Seven First Nations Artists Who Fought for a Place in the Canadian Canon
KLEINBURG, Ontario — People often generalize indigenous art, confining it to images of totem poles, bears, and eagles.