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Exterior view of the Kress Building in Montgomery.

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Dashboard Show Focuses on Artists with Alabama Ties at Historic Kress Building in Montgomery

Jun 8, 2018 0 860

Driving into Montgomery for my first visit since moving away from Alabama over a decade ago, I was struck by how wide and empty the streets were, the number of buildings with peeling paint and For Rent signs browning in the window, and the plethora of ornate plaques marking pivotal moments in our nation’s Civil…

Kehinde Wiley in the "Civilizations" episode "How We Look," airing on April 24.

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Why Art Matters: PBS’s “Civilizations” Reboots the Popular 1969 BBC Series

Mar 16, 2018 0 598

PBS revamps the 1969 BBC art history series “Civilisation” to make way for a post-modern audience.

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“Magic and Loss” Seeks Rapture in Pixels, But Fails

Jul 13, 2017 0 435

Heffernans recent book extolls the virtues of the Internet as a form of art-making. Our reviewer considers it the latest iteration of our urge towards rapture, and asks whether our cocooned online existence advances this search or just numbs us to the pain of its continued failure.

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Saige Rowe’s Textural Video Art

Mar 7, 2017 0 407

Conyers-based artist Saige Rowe performs in vibrant, texturally rich videos shown in exhibitions in Atlanta and New York.

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Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art

Jan 30, 2017 0 338

In Magic and Loss: The Internet as Art, Virginia Heffernan does for the Internet what Susan Sontag did for photography, Arthur Danto did for painting, and Lester Bangs did for rock music. In this important new book, Heffernan aims to build a complete aesthetics—and poetics—of the Internet, and knocks it out of the park. She…