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As I stepped into Kasmin Gallery’s Les Lalanne: Zoophites I felt like I was Alice tumbling into Wonderland. The room was filled with oversized animals, each adorned with peculiar features and foliage that appear to defy gravity, for a whimsical and surreal experience. These animal sculptures, many of which transform into utilitarian household objects — […]
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With its May 1 preview, this year’s iteration of Frieze New York arrived like an early period — only instead of a week’s worth of tampons, I unceremoniously tore through 68 galleries’ worth of art separated by Bloomingdale’s-coded escalators between the floors of The Shed. And much like an early period, I grumbled and stewed
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The Art Institutes Fall 2016 fashion show in New York City (photo Frazer Harrison/Getty Images) The United States government has canceled $6.1 billion in student debt for borrowers who attended the Art Institutes, a now-defunct chain of for-profit colleges that shut down the remainder of its campuses in September 2023 amid allegations of fraud, including
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Maybe it’s something in the springtime air — all the new growth and wild nature — but fantastical landscapes and creatures seem abundant in galleries this month. While Sanam Khatibi’s uncanny scenes feel like memento mori transplanted to a land between life and death and Joy Curtis’s strange anatomies reimagine life as we know it,
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Hours before mass arrests at Columbia University and City College of New York (CCNY) late last night, April 30, a march organized by the Palestinian-led activist group Within Our Lifetime (WOL) made stops at New York University (NYU), the New School, and the Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), where students are making history as they
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Handala was created in 1969 by the late Palestinian political cartoonist Naji al-Ali. (image via Wikimedia Commons) Students who camped out on Columbia University lawns for the last two weeks, demanding financial transparency and divestments from Israeli military interests, broke into Hamilton Hall early Tuesday morning, smashing the windows of the academic hall and zip-tying and
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LOS ANGELES — Violence erupted at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) on Tuesday night, April 30, as counter-protesters attacked pro-Palestine student activists who occupied the campus. Shortly before midnight, agitators wielding sticks descended on the encampment, setting off fireworks and using pepper spray as they attempted to dismantle the barricades surrounding the camp.
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Fragile scrolls, royal portraits, various pottery and ceramics, and a 19th-century hand-drawn map were among 22 artifacts that had been missing from the Japanese prefecture of Okinawa since they were looted following the 1945 Battle of Okinawa. Yesterday, April 30, after almost 80 years, the stolen artifacts were officially repatriated to their homeland in a
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Keith and Brooke Shields, December 13, 1984 (image courtesy Keith Haring Foundation Collection) Keith Haring was born in a White, working-class town in Eastern Pennsylvania. After briefly attending a commercial art school in Pittsburgh, he studied semiotics at the School of the Visual Arts in Manhattan in 1978. His timing was impeccable, for he arrived
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