WORLD ART
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In melanie bonajo’s Dutch Pavilion, Naked Bodies Touch, Writhe, and Heal at the Venice Biennale
For this year’s Venice Biennale, the Netherlands lent its well-placed pavilion in the Giardini to Estonia, which does not have a permanent...
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98-Year-Old Computer Art Pioneer Vera Molnar Is Presenting At The Venice Biennale For The First Time
The NFT boom has renewed people’s interest in the earlier phases of the digital art movement, and with that renewed attention, Vera Molnar...
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Venice Diary: At the Arsenale
In the exhibition text for “The Milk of Dreams,” the main event at the 59th Venice Biennale , artistic director Cecilia Alemani identifies a...
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Crystal Bridges Museum Partners with Lollapalooza Producer to Launch a New Music-Art-Tech Festival
A new festival that’ll look to bridge the worlds of music, art, and techolongy is coming to Arkansas this September. Called FORMAT (an acronym...
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A Garden, Uneven: EJ Hill at Oxy Arts
EJ Hill was tired—at least, that was the premise of “Wherever we will to root” at Oxy Arts in Los Angeles. “I was sad and tired,” the artist...
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Word Processing
In the origin story for Surrealism that André Breton provides in his 1924 manifesto, he claims that “a rather strange phrase” came to him in...
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With Sámi Pavilion, Three Indigenous Artists Hope to Highlight the Ongoing Struggles of Their People at the Venice Biennale
While hurtling for miles and miles across the vast frozen Lake Inari in far northern Finland on a sled driven by reindeer herders on snowmobiles,...
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What Keeps Acclaimed Photographer Carrie Mae Weems Up at Night
Among the most acclaimed artists of her generation, Carrie Mae Weems first rose to fame with her groundbreaking “Kitchen Table” series (1990)....
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The Best Vellum for Drafting, Tracing, and More
Traditionally, vellum refers to a specific parchment made from animal skin—typically of a calf, goat, or sheep—that has been carefully cleaned,...
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How Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Sisters Organized an Exhibition Dedicated to Their Brother’s Life and Legacy, Full of Works Unseen for Decades
“King Pleasure,” a massive exhibition and homage to Jean-Michel Basquiat organized by the late artist’s two sisters, Lisane Basquiat and Jeanine...