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AVIGNON, France — The exhibition Les Papesses, curated by Collection Lambert Director Éric Mézil, anoints five female popes — popesses, if you will — of modern and contemporary art: Camille Claudel, Louise Bourgeois, Kiki Smith, Jana Sterbak, and Berlinde de Bruyckere. And it does a fantastic job of
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OAKLAND, Calif. — That China is changing rapidly is a cliché wrapped in truth. It's a cliché because it is uttered so frequently, but it is true because the details and nuances are often more staggering that the perception.
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FORT WORTH, Texas — The Kimbell Art Museum in Fort Worth, Texas, arguably already has one of the best museum buildings in the world. The Louis Kahn-designed structure, with its rows of vaulted ceilings in concrete and celebrated "silvery" light gives the displayed art a unique monumentality, whether
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Sophie Calle creates narrative fictions about tremendous loss, using stories to "protect" her from bitterness. Her life is her art and her art is her life, which makes her pieces either irrepressibly cloying or profoundly moving.
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Christopher Wool is having a moment. Arguably his most famous painting, “Apocalypse Now,” will be offered on the auction block on November 12 as part of Christie’s postwar and contemporary art evening sale, with an estimate of $15–20 million. His retrospective at the Guggenheim, organized by associa
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How much time do you spend looking at the art on a pizza box?
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KOLKATA, India — Much like an experiential therapist, Prabhakar Pachpute took the viewer inside a coal mine in his first solo show, 2012's Canary in a Coalmine at Clark House Initiative in Mumbai. Upon entering a windowless, unventilated room in a run-down space, one confronted the solid darkness eq
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FORT WORTH, Texas —Some Modernist landscapes are so futuristic, so weirdly alien in their urban surroundings, they look like sets for a sci-fi movie. In the case of the "Fort Worth Water Gardens" designed by Philip Johnson with partner John Burgee, the immense shapes of concrete that rise up topogra
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Moles have been underrated by art history. They don't flaunt it like baroque peacocks, glow like medieval dragons, or bask in contradictions like post-modern minotaurs. But by burrowing tunnels, they blaze new paths and create alternate worlds under our feet.
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CHICAGO — What happens when you make a Buddhist angry? “Aggression,” says artist Diane Christiansen. “I realized in the last year that I’ve been filled with all this aggression, from the political landscape and in some personal things too, and it began to come out in the art.”
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Shortly after President Obama announced his support for same-sex marriage in May 2012, the online version of the Guardian came out with an interactive graph depicting gay rights in the US on a state by state basis.
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Lester Johnson (1919–2010) was an innovative figurative painter who has never quite fit into any of the accepted narratives of postwar American art, and that alone makes his work worthy of a longer look.