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For the January opening of Janine Antoni’s current show at the Matrix Gallery in Hartford, Connecticut, the artist soaked her hair in a scrub bucket filled with dye and “painted” the floor by swishing her locks across it. She called the performance “Loving Care.” Among the pieces at the show is a sheet of paper onto which Antoni had batted her eyelashes more than 1,000 times after applying Cover Girl Thick Lash. A New York Times reviewer wrote that Antoni “has earned admiration for extracting multiple interpretations from seemingly simple actions.”
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A 12-year-old girl was arrested in Barrington, Illinois, in October and charged with scribbling on a town gazebo. Her scribbling consisted only of crossing out profane comments about her that others had written on the gazebo.
Just Can’t Stop Myself
Art accompanying story in printed newspaper (not available in this archive): illustration/Shawn Belschwender.
