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Embers of War Still Flickering at the Met
When Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th President of the United States in November 1860, frayed stitching held the nation’s fabric in place. By December, the divide between North and South grew ever wider when...
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(Dark) Future Perfect
What’s in your wardrobe: pastels, earth tones, or maybe stripes? What about black?
Yes, black — and not just the ubiquitous dress of a certain small size. In 2013, black — that much-maligned...
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Primary Colors: Orly Genger’s ‘Red, Yellow and Blue’
It was a rainy day across New York’s five boroughs — nothing new, considering a steel-studded sky had covered the Northeast for what seemed like a hundred years of glum. But unlike any of the dozen days...
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‘Far From Heaven’: The Music of What Happens
To most, the Fabulous Fifties bring to mind images of girls in poodle skirts and pancake makeup, diners and juke boxes, a time when Elvis first gyrated into our living rooms on TV and being named prom queen was the...
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The ICP Triennial: A Different Kind of Disorder
Alternately beautiful, bombastic and occasionally brilliant, the International Center of Photography’s current exhibit, A Different Kind of Order: The ICP Triennial, features 28 emerging and established artists...
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Chaos to Couture to Confusion: Punk Comes To the Met
A life-size replica of the famed Manhattan nightclub CBGB bathroom, initiates an immersive effort to transport us back to the antipathetic aesthetic circa. 1975. The Ramones bang and strum on loudspeakers, while...
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Cool Hand Duke: ‘Velázquez’s Portrait of Duke Francesco I d’Este: A Masterpiece from the Galleria Estense, Modena’ At the Met
First the bad news: In May 2012, a series of powerful earthquakes struck the region of Emilia-Romagna, in northeastern Italy, all but devastating the cities of Ferrara, Mantua, Modena and many other historic towns....
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‘Figuratively Speaking’ with Sherry Karver at the Kim Foster Gallery
Fittingly enough, New York is the subject of Figuratively Speaking, a new exhibition from Chicago-born, California-based visual artist Sherry Karver, which debuted May 3 at the Kim Foster Gallery located in New...
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The 29th Annual Infinity Awards: A Tribute to Photography’s Finest
“I can’t think of a better time to be involved with photography and digital culture,” Mark Robbins declared at the International Center of Photography’s annual Infinity Awards gala last Wednesday night,...
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Making a Scene: The Brooklyn Artists Ball Honors Its Own
For its third-annual Brooklyn Artists Ball, which took place last Wednesday, The Brooklyn Museum procured a decidedly self-referential theme to celebrate the influence and creativity of Brooklyn artists, who in the...
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