WORLD ART
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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...
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Moving Images: Sabrina Gschwandtner at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Sabrina Gschwandtner ’s latest show at Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Los Angeles, “Scarce Material,” performs an act of historical remediation,...
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Luiz Zerbini’s Paintings Uncover Previously Unseen Brazilian Histories in São Paulo Show
For decades, Brazil’s Amazon forest was treated by some as a symbol of virgin nature, teeming not only with verdant flora and brilliantly...