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Artists Explore the Many Sides of Our 21st-Century Selves
LONDON — “Looks” is a slippery word.
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Imagining Real and Fictional History: Exhibits on 'Mad Men' and Chinese Fashion
New Yorkers could be forgiven this month for confusing their museum itineraries with the schedule of a vintage film festival, or an Anna May Wong-inspired Netflix binge.
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50 Years of Fighting to Save New York City's Historic Architecture
The obliteration of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station in 1963, just a half-century after its completion, helped galvanize grassroots preservation efforts that eventually led to New York City Mayor Robert F. Wagner signing the Landmarks Law on April 19, 1965.
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How Urban Sprawl Created a Homogenous and Hostile World
LOS ANGELES — The list of ways the US has negatively influenced the rest of the world is long and shameful: unnecessary, interminable wars, nutritionally inane fast-food chains, a habit of wasteful consumption based on instant obsolescence. The list goes on, and one can see why at least some of our
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Between Mediums, Layers, and Incongruity at a New Brooklyn Gallery
In the not too distant past a painter would happily yield to the call of traditional materials for what would have seemed at the time rather obvious reasons.
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A Painter Who Left New York and Abstraction Behind, and Never Looked Back
LONDON — Once an artist is written about, curated, collected, and fitted within a neat framework, there is this sense that the artist has somehow been “figured out.”
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Between Carnival and Performance Art: Nine Artists on Masquerade
NEW ORLEANS — It’s astonishing that in 2015 a group exhibition of nine artists of color can still be impressive based on statistics and context alone.
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Listening Is the New Performing
The Whitney Museum of American Art made a particularly savvy choice by teaming up with Issue Project Room to present David Rosenboom’s Propositional Music, a three-day concert series spanning 50 years of his extraordinary compositions.
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Modern and Somber Paintings by a Veteran of the First World War
BEAUVAIS, FRANCE — This spring the Musée de l’Oise (MUDO) in Beauvais has helped an artist make his way toward the light, only after eight decades of dark oblivion.
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Chirpy Cartoons from Ironyland: PC Music Volume 1
Since August 2013, the British techno label PC Music has been regularly releasing a large number of definitely strange, possibly satiric, stunningly original songs online.
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Natalie Frank Delivers the News from Never-Never Land
Many fairy tales are about young girls and boys whose lives are controlled by the capricious impulses of evil stepmothers, vain queens and repressive fathers.
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Subversive Color at the Rose Art Museum
WALTHAM, Mass. — To say that painting is having a moment would be ironic – since, despite periodic claims regarding its demise or return, it clearly never went very far away.