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A Dazzling New Show Reveals How African Artists Are Reinventing Fashion Photography—See Their Work Here
A striking exhibition of 18 artists from the African continent looks at how appearances sometimes point to deeper truths. “Now Look Here: The African Art of Appearance,” on view at a pop-up space in Amsterdam through February 23, showcases works by Tabi Benny, Blinky Bill, and Omar Victor Diop alongside 15 other artists in a presentation organized by Renny […] More
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‘I’m Not Trying to Satisfy an Audience’: Watch Paul McCarthy Transform Historical Depictions of Purity Into Objects of Revulsion
For the first time, the American artist Paul McCarthy is having a survey dedicated entirely to his drawings and works on paper, opening this February at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. A provocateur who is best known for his performance and video art, McCarthy’s work is often grotesque and sarcastic, deriding American icons by […] More
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Don’t Fret Brings New Works & “Noises” To New York
This week we check in on Chicago’s prolific Don’t Fret. As usual DF has been busy creating, and this week he opens a solo show “O God, There’s Noises I’m Going To Be Hungry For” in Bed Stuy, Brooklyn. Fresh off the release of his killer new monograph ‘Life Thus Far’ DF has been working […] More
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Editors Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
Tuesday, January 28–Sunday, March 8 Peter Saul, from the private collection of KAWS & Julia Chiang. 1. “Collectouples: Works from the Private Collections of Julia Chiang & KAWS, Rachel Feinstein & John Currin, April Gornik & Eric Fischl, and Mickalene Thomas & Racquel Chevremont” at the New York Academy of Art What’s better than one […] More
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On the 75th Anniversary of the Liberation of Auschwitz, 75 Moving Portraits of Holocaust Survivors Are Going on View in Germany
When two Russian soldiers arrived to the Auschwitz concentration camp on January 27, 1945, the guards were gone but 7,000 survivors remained, including many children. Now, one of those children, Marta Wise, is among 75 subjects in a poignant new photography exhibition that captures the portraits of Holocaust survivors. The show, “Survivors – Faces of […] More
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Alfred Jarry’s ‘King Ubu’ Inspired Everyone From the Dadaists to the Beatles—and His Fascist Buffoon Is Now More Relevant Than Ever
A portrait of the French playwright and legendary bohemian Alfred Jarry, with his long dark hair and manicured goatee that evokes , appears alongside family photos in Linda Klieger Stillman’s home in Potomac, Maryland. In fact, art and memorabilia related to the proto-Dadaist and inventor of “pataphysics” is scattered all over the house, though some […] More
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How Stanley Kubrick’s Vision of the Future in ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ Predicted the Way We Consume News Today
“Envisioning 2001” is the title of the Museum of the Moving Image’s new exhibition about Stanley Kubrick’s classic 1968 sci-fi opus. The name has a double meaning: The show is about how the director and his team envisioned the film ; but it is also—and this may be an even more fun aspect of the exhibition—a […] More
