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Embracing the Vulgar
What is vulgar? The word’s many meanings and many forms are at the heart of “The Vulgar: Fashion Redefined,” an expansive exhibition at the Barbican Centre in London. The show takes shape around eleven categories of vulgarity conceived by writer and psychoanalyst Adam Phillips, like “Puritan,” “Impossible Ambition,” and “Showing Off.” Each is explored through clothing, shoes, and texts spanning the eighteenth century through the present. By Hilary Reid.
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A Secret Jew, the New World, a Lost Book: Mystery Solved
An octogenarian cracks the case of a missing prized manuscript by Luis de Carvajal the Younger that surfaced on sale for a fraction of its value. By Joseph Berger. (Jan. 1, 2017)
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Independent life
The life and work of Paul Nash at the Tate. By Alice Spawls.
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The Strange Case of the Minnesota Iceman
The modern-day corpse of a human-like hominid, preserved in a block of ice, encountered by researchers in the 1960s, you say? Surely the zoological discovery of the century! By Darren Naish.
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Face of 9,500-Year-Old Man Revealed for First Time
Digital tools help researchers reconstruct the Neolithic man inside the famed Jericho Skull.
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The Intimate Spectacle of “Public, Private, Secret”
Zack Hatfield contemplates secrecy as he surveys “Public, Private, Secret,” the latest exhibit at the International Center for Photography.
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Top 10 art installations of 2016
Designboom rounds-up the top 10 art installations of 2016, whether they be temporary, public, permanently fixed, interactive, or informative.
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Enter ‘The Glass Room,’ Where Privacy Goes To Die
A new temporary exhibition in New York City offers an up-close look at the tools of the surveillance state—and how to fight them. By Joshua Kopstein.
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Eggleston’s Empty America
In William Eggleston’s The Democratic Forest: Selected Works, the photographer’s charge to himself seems to be, “Make a picture of nothing at all,” the emptiness takes on a special character. By Alexander Nemerov.
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At Last, a Black History Museum
When I was sixteen and growing up in New Orleans, I stole a bottle of liquor from a supermarket and was caught. The judge sentenced me to the mild punishment for white teens, a tour of the Louisiana State Penitentiary. “Go up to Angola, son,” he said, “then after that your record’s wapped clean…” By Edward Ball.
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The Great Moon Hoax Was Simply a Sign of Its Time
Scientific discoveries and faraway voyages inspired fantastic tales—and a [2015] Smithsonian exhibition. By Sarah Zielinski.(July 2, 2015)
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Klimt’s Women, Real and on Canvas
A show at the Neue Galerie, “Klimt and the Women of Vienna’s Golden Age, 1900-1918,” delves into a complex topic. By Ken Johnson.
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The Growing Charm of Dada
Dada was not a fashion, a style, or a doctrine. It was more than a footnote to cultural history. We can better understand it as a condition, a spirit, a productive state of mind that has remained alive... By Alfred Brendel.
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How Photographs Have Shaped Our View of the National Parks
There were two prominent types of landscape photographs in the 1860s: Civil War battlefields strewn with the dead, and sweeping vistas of the West. By Allison Meier.
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Painting once written off as £20 copy reassessed as £20m Raphael
Madonna composition at National Trust’s Haddo House was spotted by a historian making a BBC TV series. By Dalya Alberge.
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Unholy Roman Emperor
Mary Beard on the ancient and modern reputation of Nero.
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The art that shows what goes on deep in the human brain
Sleep paralysis and imagined memories - exploring the edges of human consciousness. By Paul Kerley. (Feb. 29, 2016)
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In the Shadow of the DNC, Art About Politics vs. Political Art
"In an interview, African American collage artist Theodore Harris, whose work is included in the exhibition, refutes the idea that George Washington is a universally positive figure in American history." By Stan Mir.
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‘What I Couldn’t Say Myself’
Danny Lyon has spent much of his career taking intimate photographs of marginal, working-class, and outlaw communities. By Max Nelson.
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In pictures: Relics of the Soviet era
An exhibition examining the landscape and abandoned spaces of the former Soviet Union and Eastern Bloc countries opens in London.
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