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Mel Chin creates deeply researched multilayered works, tracing the links between history, science, mythology, literature, high art, and pop culture.
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Wanting It Both Ways: The 21st Biennale of Sydney
There is a basic disconnect between the festival atmosphere that surrounds international extravaganzas and the serious issues they attempt to illuminate.
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Exchange Program: The New Institute of Arab and Islamic Art
The works in the opening show at the new Institute of Arab and Islamic Art (IAIA), generically titled "Exhibition 1," and in most cases borrowed from the artists or their galleries, owe a debt to the…
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“Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change”
At a moment when the United States seems increasingly governed by tweet, “Perpetual Revolution: The Image and Social Change” offers a fascinating look at what today’s media can and can’t do…
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From the Archives: Work in Progress
Because of prior commitments, Paris-based Chinese artist Chen Zhen is one of the first to complete his installation. Titled&Prayer Wheel, it is surrounded by a crushed-paper temple which suggests…
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From the Archives: The Return of the Red-Brick Alternative
The weather on Oct. 26, the date of P.S. 1's long-awaited reopening, wasn't very promising. Drizzling rain that turned heavier at times stymied plans for an open-air concert in the newly graveled cour…
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Street Life
The Chinese-American artist Martin Wong (1945-1999) celebrated both his cultural heritage and New York's gritty Lower East Side in paintings rife with firemen, convicts, pop icons, graffitied walls an…
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Re-Creating Sturtevant
Critically neglected for a decade, Sturtevant reemerged in the 1980s as the mother of appropriation art—and as a veteran painter with a surprising penchant for making wry and lively videos.
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Critics and Dreamers
In the world according to Dave Hickey, everyone is either a Pirate (a plundering, boundary-defying individualist) or a Farmer (a fence-building nurturer).
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