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Category: Art
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With Brute Force and Steel, This Artist Creates Works of Ephemeral Beauty
A YouTube rabbit hole led Blanka Amezkua to a small Mexican town and the centuries-old craft of papel picado — chiseling intricate patterns into colorful paper flags.
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Ellen Gallagher’s Futuristic Archives
The artist discusses marine life and African American myth from her studio in the Netherlands.
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Art Deco Icons Lempicka and The Moore in Miami Poised for a Renaissance
Tamara de Lempicka, a painter favored by celebrities and designers, is being revisited. Plus, a historical Miami building reopens as a hotel and private club.
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Women Who Made Art in Japanese Internment Camps Are Getting Their Due
A traveling exhibit will focus on the work of three Japanese American women artists, Hisako Hibi, Miki Hayakawa and Miné Okubo.
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A ‘Taxi Driver’ Remake: Why Arthur Jafa Recast the Scorsese Ending
The artist has gone back to his filmmaking roots, re-examining what he sees as racial undertones in Martin Scorsese’s classic 1976 movie.
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In North Carolina, a Tiny Home for $365 a Month Comes With a Hot Tub
After a lifetime of seeking out tiny spaces, she finally found a keeper: a former barbershop in an old mill village in North Carolina.
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Gaetano Pesce, Designer Who Broke the Rules, Is Dead at 84
He brought surrealism, and politics, into the design world, disdaining conformity and right angles. “He was an enemy of the grid.”
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Reworked Italian Jerseys That Celebrate Soccer Style
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A New Way of Looking at the Nude
The artists redefining portraits of the human body for a more inclusive age.
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Hotel Stationery Becomes the Canvas for Scenes From the Road
Michael McGregor uses letterhead to sketch places and things from his life as a traveler.