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An Artist Turns Invasive Plants into Paper Sculptures
DETROIT — How often is an artist willing to introduce an element of chance to her solo gallery opening?
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Wim Wenders Trains His Lens on a Photojournalist
Wim Wenders co-directed The Salt of the Earth, a portrait of Brazilian photographer Sebastião Salgado, with Salgado’s son, Juliano Ribeiro. The film is both a comprehensive portrait of Salgado’s work and a meditation on the vocation of photojournalism.
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Painted Glimpses of the Lives of Fictional Characters
The characters of novels often know things the reader doesn’t.
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Contradictory Patterns and Decorative Illusions
One of the more promising avenues that postmodernism explored was to seek out the nether regions that modernism forgot.
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In an Exhibition of Miniatures, the Good, the Bad, and the Lego
From 18th-century dollhouses and contemporary architectural maquettes to ancient Egyptian reliquary artifacts, taking pleasure from peering down on diminutive worlds seems to be a universal human delight.
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From a Former Flower Shop in LA to the Ends of the Earth
LOS ANGELES — In the end, I find David Hartt’s exhibition, Interval, produced by LAXART, situated on the second floor of downtown’s Bonaventure Hotel.
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Traditional Craft Meets Conflict in Afghan War Rugs
SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — War and conflict have long had a role in the production of art.
Books
A Poetic Record of Creations Lost, Missing, or Destroyed
Rarely has a book been so dizzyingly impenetrable while being, at the same time, so eminently readable. Les Unités perdus (The lost unities), by the French poet Henri Lefebvre, manages to both live up to this paradox and flourish within its idiosyncratic ramparts.
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Thomas Nozkowski’s Magical Mystery Tour
Simply titled Thomas Nozkowski, this is the artist’s fourth solo exhibition at Pace Gallery since 2008, when he first joined the gallery, and this time he has pulled out all the stops.
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Instant Illuminations: Elaine de Kooning’s Early Portraiture
With her passion for people, de Kooning was by inclination a portraitist. But she was equally drawn to experimental art forms as the Abstract Expressionist movement unfolded before her eyes, inside her very home.
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Clearing the Slate: MoMA’s Contemporary Reboot
A few months after having been roundly trounced for The Forever Now: Painting in an Atemporal World, its attempt to assess the current state of painting, the Museum of Modern Art opened a reinstallation of its contemporary collection on the same day as its Björk fiasco.
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50 Years of Self-Representation in Saudi Women's Art
JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Saudi Arabia’s relatively young history (the kingdom was established in 1932) is filled with gaps due to poor documentation and preservation efforts, especially when it comes to the many contributions of Saudi women.