Composite Realities
In some of von Wulffen's paintings, a crackled varnish applied to the surface splits like dried skin; the works want to look old. Some motifs may be traced back to sources like a late…
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The Collective Imagination
Architecture collectives offer something that is entirely necessary and which aesthetic avant-gardes have always provided: self-organized groups independently fabricating communal living spaces and…
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Part to Whole
In his superforms picturing telephones or neatly ironed shirts, coat hangers, or polished shoes, Thomas Bayrle's emphasis was as much on the manufacture and distribution of the products of…
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Family Function: Harm van den Dorpel’s Algorithmic Art
Perhaps some aspects of the creative mind can be stored in code, but all of it? While the analytical capabilities of artificial intelligence are recognized as “real,” many refuse to acknowledge that s…
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Lynn Hershman Leeson
From the beginning of Hershman Leeson’s career—as this dazzling retrospective at the Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM) makes clear—the body appears as radically open to modifications by se…
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Documenta 17 Goes to Athens, Splits Self in Two
For the deep-pocketed art pilgrim, this adds yet another summer 2017 destination, in addition to the 57th Venice Biennale and the 47th edition of the mammoth Art Basel fair.
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Everything Is Illuminated: Meet Germany’s Centre for International Light Art
When it was announced last week that the first International Light Art Award (ILAA), with a $13,400 purse, was slated to be granted in 2015, the release escaped the notice of most American art news…
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Otto Piene, 1928-2014
Otto Piene, German artist and co-founder of the postwar art group Zero, died July 17 in Berlin at 86.
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MoMA’s Problematic Provenances
Behind a lawsuit brought against the Museum of Modern Art by the heirs of George Grosz lies a troubling history of acquiring works seized by the Nazis and sold to support the German war effort
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The Zelig of Early Modernism
Lyonel Feininger at the Whitney Museum of American Art Through October 16
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