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Fundraising Campaign Launched to Save Legendary Filmmaker Derek Jarman’s Cottage

Tilda Swinton is among the artists campaigning to save Prospect Cottage.

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  Tessa Solomon
• Jan 23, 2020 1:05 pm

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Layaway

Artists have been sleeping in public for some time now; it's the kind of move that pretends to invoke direct access to the unconscious.

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  Jacob Stewart-Halevy
• Jun 1, 2018 9:45 am

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A New Future from the Passed: Lynn Hershman Leeson Comes into Her Own After 50 Years of Prophetic Work

In 1965, while pregnant with her daughter, Lynn Hershman Leeson discovered she had cardiomyopathy, a disease that makes it difficult for the heart to pump blood to the rest of the body. A valve in…

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  Alex Greenberger
• Mar 28, 2017 9:30 am

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Waiting for Bob: In Which Robert Wilson Has a Busy Day

The plan was that, on a Wednesday morning in July, I would take the bus to Southampton, New York, where a publicist would pick me up and drive me to the Watermill Center about five minutes down the…

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  M. H. Miller
• Aug 12, 2015 9:30 am

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Jay-Z Serenades the Art World

The track proclaims the rapper's desire for glitzy art along with other gratifications of the senses: "I just want a Picasso, in my casa / No, my castle / I'm a hassa, no I'm an asshole / I'm neve…

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  Brian Boucher
• Jul 11, 2013 12:04 pm

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Tilda Swinton Catches Some Z’s at MoMA

If you're going to watch anyone sleeping in a raised glass case, it might as well be actress Tilda Swinton, whose fey and androgynous beauty lends itself well to an act that's fairy tale-like in natur…

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  Brienne Walsh
• Mar 26, 2013 12:56 pm