If history is any guide, we can say one thing for certain about the 2008 presidential debates, which are expected to get underway tonight in a televised performance at the University of Mississippi.
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AWICKED sculpture at the entrance to the retrospective exhibition of Martin Kippenberger’s work at the Museum of Contemporary Art crystallizes the manic tone that made the German-born Conceptual artist such an influential force, beginning in the 1980s.
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In the 1980s, Martin Kersels was a performance artist.
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Ephemeral, transient, fugitive – a central theme in Kori Newkirk’s Conceptual art resonates through various forms.
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NOTHING would seem more dull than an exhibition of portrait busts, those stone-faced dust-catchers representing obscure generals, long-dead clergymen, government functionaries and preening aristocrats that one sometimes encounters tucked away in museum hallways or lobbies but rarely in prominent galleries for painting and sculpture.
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Early Saturday evening, Providence,
R.I.-based artist Mark Tribe orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War.
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IN 19th
CENTURY EUROPE, when modern science bumped aside the Christian God as the primary artistic foundation for meaning and moral value, artists lost a subject that had preoccupied them for hundreds of years.
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Everyone has had the experience of disagreeing with a critic, but do critics ever second-guess themselves?
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Peter Saul is some kind of national treasure.
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