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, Feb 16, 2012
Slideshow
Will the 80s ever end?
The MCA's "This Will Have Been" suggests the answer is no
by Sam Worley
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Michael Jackson
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Whitney Houston
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This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
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Helen Molesworth
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Institute of Contemporary Art
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AIDS
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Ronald Reagan
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Diane Arbus
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Guggenheim
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Nan Goldin
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Gerhard Richter
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Cindy Sherman
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Robert Mapplethorpe
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Douglas Crimp
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Frank Stella
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Sherrie Levine
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Frazer Ward
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Felix Gonzalez-Torres
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Gran Fury
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Guerrilla Girls
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The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist
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Kissing Doesn’t Kill
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Alan Hollinghurst
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The Line of Beauty
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, Jan 5, 2012
Lightweight "Light Years"
The Art Institute's conceptual art survey is no more substantial than its subject
by Bill Stamets
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Matthew Witkovsky
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Henry Flynt
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Anne Rorimer
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Marcel Duchamp
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Bruce Nauman
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Joseph Kosuth
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Sol LeWitt
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Ed Ruscha
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Art Review
, Dec 22, 2011
Jake Nickell, the entrepreneur
'I don't have a business degree. I think a lot of the time innovation comes from amateurs.'
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People Issue 2011
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Threadless
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New Media Underground Festival
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Art Review
, Aug 18, 2011
The Art Institute's
"Windows on the War"
looks at the Soviet battle for hearts and minds during World War II
An exhibit of wartime Soviet propaganda posters, at the Art Institute.
by Bill Stamets
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Windows on the War: Soviet TASS Posters at Home and Abroad, 1941-1945
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Viktor Deni
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Vladimir Mayakovski
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Leonid Pasternak
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TASS
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Douglas W. Druick
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Peter Kort Zegers
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Jill Bugajski
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Adam Jolles
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Konstantin Akinsha
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"The Red Army Broom Will Completely Sweep Away the Scum"
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"The Wonders of Fascist Photography"
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Art Review
, Aug 11, 2011
Matt Irie’s deceptive grid paintings, at Ebersmoore
by Noah Berlatsky
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Art Review
, Mar 31, 2011
Hot Air at Columbia College
In Cape Farewell's Unfold, artists' responses to global warming look an awful lot like the problem.
by Noah Berlatsky
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Columbia College
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Ice Texts
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David Buckland
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Unfold: A Cultural Response to Climate Change
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Museum of Contemporary Art
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Robyn Hitchcock
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KT Tunstall
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Lemm Sissay
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global warming
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Leslie Feist
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Heather Ackroyd
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Dan Harvey
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Daro Montag
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Art Review
, Mar 17, 2011
Hebru Brantley: Straight Out of Neverland
The Afro-Futurist painter talks about Kanye, Common, and living like a shark.
by Elly Fishman
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Common
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Captain America
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, Mar 4, 2010
The Disembodied Body
Four collectives reveal a virtual universe of form and movement.
by Laura Molzahn
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Columbia College
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Dance Center of Columbia College
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Digital Incarnate: The Body, Identity, and Interactive Media
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Alycia Scott
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Sara Slawnik
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Merce Cunningham
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Biped
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Koosil-ja
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Blocks of Continuality/Body, Image, and Algorithm
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Science, Technology, and Dance
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Digital Incarnate
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Troika Ranch
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Liquid Mirror
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Mark Coniglio
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Doppelganger
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Luftwerk
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Hedwig
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Luftwerk and Hedwig Dances
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Liquid Mirror
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Ghostcatching
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Bill T. Jones
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OpenEnded Group
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Synchronous Objects
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William Forsythe
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One Flat Thing, Reproduced
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MotionVolumes
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Bockenheimer Depot
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Columbia College Arcade Gallery
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Book Review
, Jul 16, 2009
Michael Kupperman's High Hucksterism
Tales Designed to Thrizzle
turns boob-tube tropes into art.
by Noah Berlatsky
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Monty Python's Flying Circus
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Book Review
, Jun 11, 2009
Antiques Road Show
Young fogey cartoonists Adrian Tomine and Seth discuss their own work and some neglected masters at Quimby's.
by Ben Schwartz
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Shortcomings
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Quimby's
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R.Crumb
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Yoshihiro Tatsumi
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Doug Wright
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John Stanley
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Quimby's Bookstore
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Art Review
, Jun 11, 2009
Neat-o Is Not Enough
Olafur Eliasson's installations are eye-catching but ultimately empty.
by Laura Molzahn
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Take Your Time, Olafur Eliasson
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Chicago
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Art Review
, Apr 23, 2009
Get Off the Assembly Line
"Pedagogical Factory" ponders more intimate, creative approaches to education.
by Bert Stabler
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Art Review
, Sep 6, 2007
Art
by Tamara Faulkner and Robert Cass
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Art Review
, Jul 26, 2007
Downwardly Mobile
The upper classes take a dive in Jana Gunstheimer's clever disaster scenario.
by Bert Stabler
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Art Review
, Feb 22, 2007
Mix and Match
by Fred Camper
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Art Review
, Feb 15, 2007
Computers and Chaos
by Fred Camper
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Art Review
, Feb 1, 2007
A Political Rebirth
by Fred Camper
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, Feb 1, 2007
Art Without Ego
by Fred Camper
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, Jan 25, 2007
Reassembled Parts
by Fred Camper
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Art Review
, Jan 25, 2007
Short Takes on Current Shows
All about prison, a collage of cats and babies, and a good 80s-inspired paint slinging
by Bert Stabler
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