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A Defiant Beauty: Contemporary Iranian Art from the Permanent Collection at the Met
Given the media’s almost daily drumbeat reporting the ill will, distrust, and unveiled hostility defining today’s Iran, it seems not only implausible but foolhardy to believe that art...
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‘Teresa’s Ecstasy’: A Taste for Gazpacho
Don’t think that just because the protagonist of Teresa’s Ecstasy, currently playing at The Cherry Lane Theatre in the West Village in New York, is making a menopausal pilgrimage back...
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New York’s Week That Was: The Art Fairs
Over the past 25 years, the role of the art fair has evolved with the times.
At their inception, in the 1980s, these were clubby events, and whether...
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No Problem!: “Born Out of Necessity” Exhibit at the MoMA Explores Design
That chair we sit in, that helmet we don, and even those cute earplugs we stuff in our ears — all of ‘em, folks, are the offspring of the mothers and fathers of invention who...
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“Eternal Equinox” – Not So Eternal
The equinox, in case you don’t recall, is that time when the sun crosses the plane of the earth’s equator and day and night are of equal length. In Joyce Hokin Sachs’ ménage a...
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Painting In Fragments: Artist Colin Chillag’s Illusionistic Work
Portrait painting is nothing new. And yet, in the hands of Arizona-based artist Colin Chillag, this genre takes on novel properties.
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Spaceship Style: Futurstate Founder Laura Stewart Creates a Fashionable (Dark) Future
Laura Stewart is from the future. Or at least her designs are.
The Canadian designer is the founder of Futurstate, a Toronto-based alternative clothing...
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The Unpleasant Poor
It seems like a particularly American folly to mistake poverty for pigsty, which is, regrettably, what happens in the Roundabout Theatre Company’s revival of Look Back in Anger, under...
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Face to Face: Rembrandt and Degas at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
“What I do is the result of reflection and study of the great masters.”
—Edgar Degas
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The Art of Fender-Bending: John Chamberlain at the Guggenheim
In a car-obsessed culture, everyone’s got another crash, another pile-up story to beat all. In sculptor John Chamberlain’s case, his fender-benders were no accident. The metal parts...
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