A working group of 15 people Iranian artist Homa Delvaray Can steal the spotlight in the frame section Frieze New York this year. Written in Persian on layers of fabric, the series is a colorful example of The Frame’s mission: to educate audiences about emerging artists. The title of Ms. Delvaray’s collection, “The Garden of …
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Angie Chen (Emma Galbraith) struggles through multiple gray areas in “Inbetween Girl,” a clever teen drama from writer and director Mei Makino. Half Asian and half white, 16-year-old Angie is a “significant minority” student at her high school in Galveston, Texas, but she has never felt particularly Asian. His identity crisis intensifies when his parents …
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Visiting a villa in Naples, Italy, Glory Samjolly convinced her sister and a friend to do a witty cosplay. Posing regally in a period pastiche of men’s brocade vests, neck ruffs, knee trousers, and lavishly embroidered frock coats, those posing royally were captured by Miss Samjolly in a group portrait, the playfully subversive title of …
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Visiting a villa in Naples, Italy, Glory Samjolly convinced her sister and a friend to do a witty cosplay. Posing regally in a period pastiche of men’s brocade vests, neck ruffs, knee trousers, and lavishly embroidered frock coats, those posing royally were captured by Miss Samjolly in a group portrait, the playfully subversive title of …
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NASHVILLE – Sheryl Crow will not read this story. He confirmed this with a smiling face, but it wasn’t a surprise (or bluff). Crow’s career began in the 1990s, when success was tied to giants like big corporations and radio, and the most direct line to fans came through MTV and the often sexist press. …
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This article is part of our latest article Special section on museumsfocusing on new artists, new audiences, and new ways of thinking about exhibitions. Raphael Montañez Ortiz was a famous avant-garde artist in 1969 when he helped a group of East Harlem parents, teachers, and students create El Museo del Barrio. of fine arts. He …
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LETTERS TO GWEN JOHNby Celia Paul “I hate the word ‘Muse’,” Celia Paul writes in her excellent new book, Letters to Gwen John. She also hates being called “an artist in her own right,” she. Lucian Freud has not survived both periods after he died in 2011. She was 52 years old, a famous artist …
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Mira Calixa composer, producer and visual artist whose work includes electronic music, orchestral commissions, public art installations, theatrical sheet music, music videos and DJ setsHe died on March 25 at his home and music and art studio in Bedford, England. He was 52 years old. The death was confirmed by his partner, Andy Holden, who …
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In his Brooklyn studio, El Salvador-born artist Guadalupe Maravilla prepared to activate the latest “Disease Shooter #0”. acclaimed sculpture series those who use the powers of vibrational sound as a form of healing. Recovering from a rare cancer, the author took his place on a high woven straw platform, his socked feet turned to a …
Andy Warhol left behind numerous self-portraits. had black and white shot from a photobooth strip from 1963, where she wore deep black shadows and a cool expression. Inside 1981, dragged a Polaroid with a platinum blonde bob and deep red lips. Five years later he screen printed face, on a black background with bright red …
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The question of whether artists are more prone to abuse, or whether we like to think that historically they were, resonated throughout the 20th century. The drinking and drug habits of various authors have become a morbid curiosity to their public, who continue to collect anecdotal evidence of addiction as if they were the key …
On a cloudy July day with heavy humidity and drizzle, I drove from Manhattan to the Bulova Corporate Center in Queens to search for my ghost. Until 2017, the Queens Museum had a satellite gallery in Bulova, where it held artist exhibitions. Denyse Thomasos’ show was one of them. Thomasos, a brilliant abstract painter from …