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Today, CAMSTL announced that Chief Curator Jeffrey Uslip will be leaving [http://camstl.org/uploads/2016/10/10/101016-jeffrey-uslip-accepts-new-curatorial-position.pdf?1476114804] for an as-yet-unnamed institution.
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ST. LOUIS — What does accountability look like in a world where no one is accountable?
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Kelley Walker's solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum in St. Louis features photographs of black men and women smeared with chocolate and toothpaste that have triggered a public boycott of the institution.
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In the 1940s, artist Isamu Noguchi experimented with a series of "lunar landscapes," embedding lights in undulating magnesite cement. While some were freestanding sculptures, three were site-specific pieces installed in two buildings and a boat. This month, the only one of these architectural projec
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Kota: Digital Excavations in African Art is the first exhibition to focus on Kota reliquaries in-depth, and involves a digital experience where visitors discover forgotten patterns and connections in the faded art.
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The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) has received a gift of 225 artworks, worth upward of $50 million, from the collection of the late Edith Spink and Charles Claude Johnson Spink, who died in 2011 and 1992, respectively.
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Ezra Pound wrote that all great art is born from the metropolis, so it's no surprise that the metropolis itself has become one of art's primary motifs.
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CHICAGO — It's impossible to know when love begins. At best, we are mildly aware of its onset — a subtle brush of the hair, a lick of the lips, a quiet nudge of the hip, a gaze that lasts too long or not long enough. What we do know is that love finds us; we cannot search it out. Spanish poet Federi
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We received this note yesterday from a Hyperallergic reader: "Bob Cassilly died … His bulldozer tumbled down a rocky hill, flipping over a bunch of times while he was in it. He was a pretty tough guy. He turned a giant shoe factory in St. Louis into The City Museum. A wonderland of potential lawsuit