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Showing Christian charity
Some art is Made to Be Destroyed
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Chicago’s bawdy night in Brooklyn
Feminists take that stage for the Sackler Center First Award at the Brooklyn Museum
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Brooklyn Museum’s rush to celebrate Rodin
“The Brooklyn Museum is hustling to become the greatest, new, 200-year-old discovery on the planet,” said the museum’s director Anne Pasternak
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It’s a family affair for McArthur Binion
The Chicago-based painter is one of 11 children, born and raised in Macon, Mississippi, at a rural address known simply as Route One, Box Two
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Ashley just wants to have fun
The Bali-based artist Ashley Bickerton has his first US survey at the Flag Art Foundation
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Smells like Marina spirit
Abramovic’s show in 2020 at London’s Royal Academy of Arts will mark the first time a woman has been the subject of a retrospective at the prestigious institution
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Getting high with JFK
Teenagers in California’s Coachella Valley have found a creative way of “engaging” with the art on view at Desert X
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Taking the alphabet by the horns
Rarely is an instrumental concert as visually exciting as it is aurally, but that was the case at the Darmstadt Ensemble’s quirky recent performance
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Nitsch plays the other kind of organ
The 79-year-old Viennese Actionist Hermann Nitsch is legendary for his decades-long exploration of religious rituals and violence
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Never mind the bollocks
The British fashion designer Vivienne Westwood may have helped bring punk into the mainstream, but lately she’s been busier making the mainstream look punk
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Storage wars in the Lower East Side
The conceptual artist Aaron Flint Jamison caused a stir last month when he decided that for his solo exhibition at Miguel Abreu Gallery he would show only works in the gallery’s storage
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El Hanani, quickest on the draw in SoHo
For nearly half a century, Jacob El Hanani has been composing obsessively detailed drawings using a Rapidograph pen, typically employed by architects
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On the side of the angels
Vittorio Scarpati made a series of bold drawings in a New York hospital before he died of Aids, which also claimed the life of his wife, the writer and actress Cookie Mueller. Teeming with “piles of angels”, Scarpati’s drawings are being shown for the first time in 25 years in London this month
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Austrian court rules in favour of Franz West’s family in legal battle over estate
Any remaining art and the profits from works sold to be turned over to the artist’s young children, court rules