WORLD ART
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How I Made This: Reconstructing Colette Lumiere’s “Living Environment”
In the 1970s and early 1980s, artist Colette Lumiere (the last of a number of names the French-born artist adopted in the course of her career)...
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Not All Microbes
Most of the time, when we hear about microbes , the subject is their extermination: “Kills 99.9% of germs,” exclaim the labels on popular...
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How a New York Artist Used Her Work to Offer a Respite for Homeless Women During the ’90s
“I wanted to hold you close/and whisper ‘everything is/going to be alright’/but did’nt./Because…/We both knew; in...
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New Mexico Fiber Artist Eric-Paul Riege Sees Life as a Loom
Eric-Paul Riege performing during his exhibition “Hólǫ́́—it xistz,” 2019, at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. “I feel like it’s...
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Gala Porras-Kim’s Fluid Conversation on Dry Conservation
In Precipitation for an Arid Landscape (2021), recently on view at Amant Foundation in Brooklyn, Los Angeles–based artist Gala Porras-Kim...
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ARTnews Travel Offers an Insider’s Look at the Los Angeles Art Scene
A LOOK AT LOS ANGELES ART 5 Days | November 2–6, 2022 Step into the embrace of the hot Los Angeles art scene, from world-renowned museums...
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“A Movement in Every Direction” Explores the Great Migration’s Continuing Influence on American Culture
In the years between the start of the 20th century and the mid-1970s, more than six million African Americans left the rural South in what is...
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At Gagosian, Awol Erizku Takes Apart the Sphinx to Offer New Possibilities for Imagination
What does it mean to take apart something that is already an amalgamation of many things—animals, mythologies, cultures? That question animates a...
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Dada Head and Powder Box: Sophie Taeuber-Arp at MoMA
In 1916, Sophie Taeuber-Arp began living an artistic double life: by day, she taught textile design and embroidery at the Zurich Trade School,...
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From Facts to Wonder: Mary Frank’s Enigmatic Figures
One of my first truly profound art experiences was with a sculpture by Mary Frank . I was twenty years old, and an intern...