Vibrant Beings: Making Buddhist Art Today
Twenty-first-century artists find visual exuberance in Buddhism, a religion too often viewed as somber and austere.
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“Parergon: Japanese Art of the 1980s and 1990s”
Split into two consecutive parts and titled "Parergon," after the influential Tokyo gallery that borrowed the term from an essay in Jacques Derrida's Truth in Painting (1978), the exhibition gathered…
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The Met Posts the Second Season of Its Online Video Series ‘The Artist Project’
Earlier today, the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York posted the second season of The Artist Project on its website. As with its first season, the online video series features 20…
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Telling Stories in Three Dimensions: Installation Art Today
Once upon a time, storytelling was the most ambitious mission of painting. Panel by panel, Renaissance artists told the lives of Christ and the saints on the walls of churches. Michelangelo presented
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Out of this World
Space travel has become an obsession among contemporary artists who are reenacting journeys to Mars, making replicas of astronaut gear, and even training with NASA
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Mariko Mori’s Primal Rhythm in the Deep Blue
Many Asian artists, no matter how worldly their youthful detours, seem inevitably to end up steeped in spiritual issues. Consider Japan's shape-shifting Mariko Mori (b. 1967). Two decades ago, the for…
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Lights, Action, Camera!
Taking its cue from movie directors, a generation of photographers is creating staged pictures to depict suburban nightmares, adolescent fantasies, and futuristic daydreams.
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