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Aesthetics in Action
Los Angeles-born artist Mario Ybarra Jr.'s latest project compares his native city to Chicago.
Longitudes and Latitudes of Civilization
“Power is the ability to do work. Which is what maps do: they work.”
The Subject is Finance
Sigalit Zetouni explores money as a subject in art and Derivart, a Spanish interdisciplinary group that created a new field, "finance art."
Her Journey to the Water of the Earth
"Descend, bold traveler, into the crater of the jokul of Sneffels, which the shadow of Scartaris touches before the calends of July, and you will attain the center of the earth; I have done this, Arne Saknussemm." —A Journey to the Center of the Earth by Jules Verne
The Qes Who Paints
"Painting is not just an occupation- it is my life." - Qes Adamu Tesfaw
The Installation Effect
How installations continue to redefine art
Richard Hull's Jazz
Canvases that explore rhythym
Agora, Art and Experience
An overwhelming gaze from faceless figures
To Capture a Moment in Time
Barbara Probst's images liberate traditional photography from its static, single view structure
Poetic Needle
An embroidery exhibit probes the subject and role of tradition
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