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How Vita Kari Wields Virality as an Artistic Form
Anyone who made it to Art Basel Miami Beach last month may have run into interdisciplinary visual artist Vita Kari, not in the convention center but outside of it. Seemingly trapped in a pop-top can...
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The Artist Who Gave Inflatable Pop Art Its Legs
Footwear features prominently in the work of artist Ann Slavit, from spiked high heels to red ballet slippers and even a pair of forlorn boots. Hers are no ordinary shoes, however—they typically...
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Marie Laurencin’s Beautiful Vision of Queerness
In 1923, Marie Laurencin painted the stage curtain of the ballet Les biches, which premiered in Monte Carlo in January of the following year—a somewhat plotless, vibe-filled stage production of young...
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Elizabeth Renstrom’s ‘Yummy’ Is A.I.’s Take On Old-School Teen Tabloids
When it comes to exploring the female gaze in photography, so many talented photographers have emerged in the past decade, proving that now truly is the time for women behind the lens. One of these is...
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Mood Is Her Medium
Data is beautiful, or so the data scientists say. They’re typically referring to visualizations that, if not particularly artful, stir the souls of those seeking informational insights. But what if...
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The Women Shaping Contemporary Art in the Gulf
During the late aughts and early 2010s, “Gulf Futurism,” a cultural concept articulated by artist Sophia Al-Maria, sought to articulate trends and changes affecting the region, where the advancement...
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Iwan Baan Is Breaking Through Architecture’s Leading Lines
A man with black hair and thick eyebrows squats on a concrete patio, a pile of plastic waste on his right and a jumbled chaos of cushions chairs on his left. He’s looking past a clothesline tied to a...
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Curator Virginia Brilliant On the Old Master Women History Chose to Forget
When it comes to Old Master works, many of us think immediately of art made by men—most often Caravaggio, Rembrandt or Vermeer. But there were women artists working in the Early Renaissance all the...
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Ways of Seeing, Ways of Being: Art in Three Dimensions
As you walk through bare Brutalist concrete corridors towards the entry to the new Jennifer Marman and Daniel Borins multimedia art exhibition “Three Dimensions,” you might wonder what you’re doing...
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One Fine Show: Piet Mondrian at Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. There’s a...
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Cultural Comings and Goings: Eleanor Nairne Joins the Philadelphia Museum of...
From the retirement of longtime Frick director Ian Wardropper to the appointment of Shelley Selim in a newly created curatorial position at the Detroit Institute of Arts, here are some of the most...
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Seeing Thomas Hart Benton’s Panorama of American Life from Another Angle
Wander around the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York long enough and eventually you’ll stumble into a room—Gallery 909—where striking wall-size murals immerse you in a whirlwind tour of American...
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Who Was Jan Toorop, the Artist Who Inspired Gustav Klimt?
Contemporary developments in aesthetic ideals coupled with an increasing interest in moving art out of stuffy galleries and into public realms intrigued the Viennese Secessionists. A group of late...
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The National Gallery of Art Adds 20 Joseph Cornell Boxes to Its Collection
The National Gallery of Art has received a major gift of works by Joseph Cornell, an artist who became an icon of 20th-century culture despite living in relative isolation while alive. Consisting of...
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Sotheby’s to Host One-Time Performance of Broadway’s ‘Lempicka’
For the first time in its 280-year history, Sotheby’s will host a Broadway performance. The auction house today (Jan. 17) will stage a one-night-only event celebrating Lempicka, an upcoming Broadway...
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The Best Park City, Utah Art Galleries
The Sundance Film Festival kicks off today, which means Park City, Utah is currently swarming with actors, directors, movie critics, film connoisseurs and Hollywood bigwigs and wannabes eager to see...
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One Fine Show: ‘Multiple Realities’ at the Walker Art Center
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. “The world...
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Photographer David LaChapelle On Photography, Worshiping Stevie Wonder and...
There are two Davids in pop culture: David Chapelle, the comedian, and David LaChapelle, the world-renowned photographer Jay-Z rapped about on “All the Way Up.” Few photographers get a shout-out like...
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A Guide to All the February Art Fairs
Through up markets and down markets, the proliferation of contemporary art fairs is ongoing. Fair fatigue is real—gallery staff can spend ninety days each year on the road—but what’s the alternative?...
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One Fine Show: James McNeill Whistler at the National Museum of Asian Art
Welcome to One Fine Show, where Observer highlights a recently opened exhibition at a museum outside of New York City—a place we know and love that already receives plenty of attention. Some of the...
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