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Shuttering Early, Art Basel Paris Also Removes Public Sculptures
Works by Simone Fattal, Manfred Pernice, and Niki de Saint Phalle are among those that will be removed early from Winston Churchill Avenue ahead of the fair’s early closure.
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Critics Slam “Petty” Removal of Joel Shapiro Sculpture From Kennedy Center
Artists and activists condemned the National Park Service’s dismantling of "Blue” (2019), calling it an example of “Trump’s continued vandalism of the nation’s artistic treasures.”
Art Review
The Canary in the Turbine Hall
Máret Ánne Sara contends that the destruction of Samí lands foreshadows similar threats to more temperate regions and calls for alternative frameworks of knowledge.
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Carmen Argote’s Maximalist Homage to Garment Workers
The artist makes each article of clothing in her current exhibition from the same sewing pattern, but they all have their own personalities.
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Kaari Upson’s Haunted Dollhouse
A retrospective projects the fear that the world is not the nice place we want it to be, no matter how much we play pretend.
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A Tandem Dance of the Seen and Imagined
Paintings by Abigail Dudley and sculptures by Elise Siegel showcase their absorption with oil paint and clay, respectively.
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An Artist’s Unexpected Confrontation With Mortality
Even when she is dealing with loaded subjects, like her mother’s death, Asako Tabata never checks the usual boxes.
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Beverly Semmes’s Feminist Palimpsests
Women’s bodies are a locus for corrosive stereotypes and ebullient individuality in the artist’s sculpture, painting, fashion, and more.
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A Contemporary Art Exhibition in an 18th-Century Home
Through paper works set within period interiors, Rejin Leys makes visible the nested layers of Jamaica, Queens.
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The Shocking Allure of Erotic Abstraction
A show on Louise Bourgeois, Eva Hesse, and Alice Adams gives a sense of how different, even alarming, these pieces would have been to viewers in the 1960s.
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The Life-or-Death Art of Hamad Butt
A survey centers the threat of disease and the complex, often contradictory emotions stirred up by the risk of contagion.
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The Unexpected Beauty of Detritus
Through his art, Yuji Agematsu brings reverence and discipline to this job of living, and acknowledges each human’s durational condition.