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A Painter Finds Depth in Flatness
“The world is flat.” So declared New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman in 2005. And before the world was flat, it was round, and before that it was flat. And the picture plane was flat too.
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The Image Fetishes of a Para-photographer
The first work one encounters in Robert Heinecken: Object Matter, the Museum of Modern Art's (MoMA) retrospective of the renowned “para-photographer,” is a 1965 piece entitled “Visual Poem/About the Sexual Education of a Young Girl.”
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1980s Counterculture, and Its Legacy, in Zines
Self-published, cheaply-made, and disseminated after running through copy machines, zines — short for "fanzine" — have existed as simple and cost-effective creative soapboxes. Zines+ and the World of ABC No Rio, a current exhibition at the Center for Book Arts, presents publications from the archive
Books
How Not to Write About Women Artists
Gertrude Käsbeir and Rinko Kawauchi have two things in common: they’re women and they’re photographers.
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A Pioneer of Color Photography Gets His Due
Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen’s underknown, trailblazing series 122 Color Photographs is currently receiving its first solo show in New York, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.
Books
Haida Master Carver Charles Edenshaw Finally Gets His Due
With incredible precision through a diversity of materials, Charles Edenshaw evoked the beauty of traditional Haida art at a time when this First Nations culture was on the precipice of disappearing.
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Would You Ignore 101 Chalk Outlines of a Black Male Body?
Whitney V. Hunter staged a performance as protest at Union Square on Saturday, August 24. He laid down on the cobbled square and traced his silhouette 101 times in chalk.
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Between Politics and Participation: Christoph Schlingensief
The Christoph Schlingensief retrospective at MoMA PS1, titled simply Christoph Schlingensief, seeks to capture the career of an artist whose practice is particularly ill-suited to an exhibition.
Music
Fagen’s Critical Catalogue (August 2014, Part 1)
It has come to my attention that the radio edit of Future's "Move That Dope" has been christened "Move That Doh" in a classic censorship joke.
Art
Swoon's Underwater Fairy Tale
In one of the largest galleries at the Brooklyn museum, the artist Swoon has erected Submerged Motherlands, a colorful installation cloaked in the language of fairy tale and myth.
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In the Spirit of Summer Memories
LOS ANGELES — The summer months are a time of slowing down, going out, hitting the beach, and drinking far too many iced coffee beverages. And yes, I even remember you., a five-person group show at Aran Cravey Gallery curated by Eric Kim, wraps up the summer season nicely, reminding visitors of the
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A Travel Bureau for a Trip to the Moon
Extraplanetary travel has seemed tantalizingly close ever since the first moon landing over 45 years ago. Alas, we're no closer to spending our summer holidays riding rovers on the lunar craters, and even with the advent of private space travel like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX it's astronomically una