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Though we publish this magazine every month for readers of the present, it's also true that we are producing a document for posterity.
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Changing Channels: Dara Birnbaum’s Televisual Art Comes into Focus
Since the 1970s, her pioneering videos and installations have questioned ideas at work in mass media.
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Building Moving-Image Collection, Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester Commissions Work by Isaac Julien, Dara Birnbaum, Javier Téllez
The artists will work with the archives of the city's university for the John G. Hanhardt–curated project.
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Hidden Lights: Art-World Professionals Answer a Question—Who Are the Most Underrated Artists Today?
For the third time in two decades, ARTnews approached a cross section of museum directors and curators to opine about one of their favorite subjects: Who are the most underrated artists…
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‘Give Me Some Power Chords, Really Loud!’ Things Got a Little Rowdy at Last Night’s Kitchen Gala
“There’s a little bit of Palladium frisson going on here,” Tim Griffin, the executive director of the Kitchen, said at last night’s gala benefiting that institution. And indeed there…
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In the Studio: Dara Birnbaum
With a long-awaited installation opening this month in Paris, pioneer video artist Dara Birnbaum discusses radical changes in technology and mass-media strategies, her own collaborative editing proces…
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