Art
Gaming the Pop Culture Fantasy of the Vietnam War
Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca.
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A Restaging of ‘Oklahoma!’ Thrusts the Audience into the Action
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — The original Oklahoma! musical from 1943 is set in the 1900s, during a much “simpler” time.
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The Gore and Agony of New Baroque Sculptures at the Met
Baroque Spanish sculpture was long considered gaudy and secondary to the paintings of the same era but that is changing.
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Elastic and Rigid Objects That Bend Our Point of View
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The power of expectation is never so evident as it is in the moment it's thwarted.
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Two Chelsea Galleries Go Wall Out for Summer
'Tis the season of reduced hours and low-stakes group shows at most Manhattan galleries, but two spaces in Chelsea are bucking the trend with summer exhibitions of large-scale murals.
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New York's Cathedral of Science Reopens with Interactive Ecology Beneath the Stars
The Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science in Queens was designed to give visitors to the 1964 World's Fair the feeling of floating in deep space.
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A Once Shattered Statue Is Now Part of a Theatrical Experiment at the Metropolitan Museum
How many times is a sculpture sculpted?
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Painting the Nocturnal Journeys of Solitary Travelers
The remote location of the sparse gallery space makes it seem as though the paintings were found interred, long unseen.
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From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to Richmond, Virginia
New Dominion, a group show at Mixed Greens, brings together the work of eight artists living and working in Richmond, Virginia.
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Elmer Bischoff’s Haunting Figurative Paintings
The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she was a graduate student at Yale, and this encounter helped lead to her first book: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (1996).
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Vantage Points: Three Works at Socrates Sculpture Park
With “Living Pyramid” (2015), Agnes Denes's first large-scale public sculpture in New York City since she planted and harvested an amber field in the Battery Park Landfill (“Wheatfield - A Confrontation," 1982), the artist merges botanicals with her interest in mathematics.
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The Other Side of Portraiture
It may be a stretch to say that portraiture is in the air — given that there are all of two exhibitions devoted to it in New York City right now, one in Manhattan and one in Brooklyn — but their confluence can feel like the kind of Marxian (Groucho, not Karl) charge you get from watching a tradition