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COMMENTARY: Making Themselves Useful
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It’s Not Just a Museum, It’s a Think Tank
Art museums are recruiting experts from outside the art world to address problems in the real world. Read More
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‘The Last of a Kind’
Painter Antoni Tàpies, descendant of Picasso and Miró, did not leave an heir apparent Read More
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Brave New World
Three New York art museums take on the complex topic of the Caribbean Read More
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L.A. “X”
LACMA’s plan to open a show featuring Robert Mapplethorpe’s gay sadomasochistic photographs two weeks before Election Day proves we’ve come a long way--maybe Read More
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Things Fall Apartheid
An ambitious, devastating, revelatory survey at the ICP is the first of several upcoming museum shows to explore how South African photography evolved from a document into a blunt instrument Read More
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Jackson’s Other Actions: Pollock’s Sculptures Resurface
Carvings, castings, and other sculptural objects created by Jackson Pollock are turning up in New York galleries—raising intriguing questions about how they relate to his paintings, and why they’ve...
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Fall Season: What a Disaster
The art of the apocalypse: exhibitions across the country address catastrophes from the destruction of Pompeii to the earthquake in Haiti Read More
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Making Yale Zig Zag
Robert Storr brings Jac Leirner back to art school. A paper chase ensues Read More
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Engravings for the E.T. in All of Us
A small silicon disc on a space-bound satellite is a giant leap for public art--whether or not the aliens actually get it Read More
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MoMA Makes a Facebook for Abstractionists
A collaboration between MoMA curators and the Columbia Business School depicts early modernism as a vast social network. It's the latest in a long line of charts showing that no ism is an island Read More
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Fashion’s Equivalent of the Blank Canvas
The little black dress, subject of a show curated by Vogue's André Leon Talley, is uniform, sculpture, template--and, for some men, an aspiration Read More
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This Is Not a Pipe–But It IS a Newly Discovered Magritte
A new book gathers 130 previously unpublished and recently authenticated works by the Belgian Surrealist, including a portrait of Jesus, erotic pictures, and that famous cryptic pipe Read More
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Old Masters of Our Domain
Contemporary artists rock art-history classics to pay homage, show off, have fun, and comment on issues like race and class Read More
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The Thing’s the Plays: Public Theater’s New Shakespeare Machine
Artist Ben Rubin remixes 37 works in a site-specific, L.E.D-lit, linguistic-supercollider sculpture (that’s also a chandelier) Read More
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J.R. in New York: Keeping It Rio
Favela where the French street artist staged "Women Are Heroes" emerges at Ford Foundation's headquarters Read More
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