WORLD ART
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Hélio Oiticica’s Major Central Park Installation Will Be Realized 51 Years Later at Queens’s Socrates Sculpture Park
When he arrived in New York in the early 1970s, the late Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica dreamed of creating a large-scale outdoor public...
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Indispensable: Michael C. Thorpe’s Longarm Sewing Machine
Textile artist Michael C. Thorpe first used a longarm sewing machine in 2018. That first one belonged to his mother, Susan Richards, an...
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Archived Opposition: “Art for the Future” at Tufts University Art Galleries
Greg Sholette’s Insurrection (1984/2021) involves a short text repeatedly silkscreened on four adjacent panels that remain half-concealed under...
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Sustainable: The Best Earth-Friendly Colored Pencils
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Why Artist Wendy Red Star Centered Indigenous People in Her Abstracted Revision of the Iconic Manifest Destiny Painting ‘American Progress’
Artist Wendy Red Star was usually a sleepy freshman during her 9 a.m. intro to art history class at Montana State University during the early...
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Venice Diary: The National Pavilions
As far as I can tell, Ladbrokes isn’t taking bets on the winner of the Golden Lion for best national pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale , but...
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John Kane, the First Self-Taught Artist to Be Featured in a U.S. Museum, Gets the Biography Treatment
These days, the painter John Kane is unfamiliar to many. But it wasn’t always that way. In 1927, the New York Daily News ran an article...
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The $50,000 Bennett Prize is Back for Its Third Edition
For any artist, attaining a prize in art is the highest form of approbation, a great honor as well as a fantastic career boost. As a practical...
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Venice Diary: At the Giardini
When I arrived at the Giardini Wednesday morning for day two of the Venice Biennale preview, a significant line had already formed at the...
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Sustainable: The Best Eco-Friendly Graphite Pencils
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