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PARIS — Beneath the bombastic Beaux-Arts dome of the Grand Palais in Paris, artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov have installed an explorable city of white arches and curious pavilions dedicated to attempts and failures to reach a mystical plane.
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The Paris-based Cutlog art fair has returned to the Lower East Side for another year, with 50 galleries setting up inside the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Opened on Wednesday, the internationally focused art offerings sprawl through two floors of the old schoolhouse, weaving
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Amazon gets a white-backdrop photography patent, Delaware Art Museum announces first art at auction, Putin bans profanity, and more from the week in art news.
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After serving as a Romanian war photographer from World War I through 1920, Costica Acsinte settled in Slobozia in the south of the country and set up a studio called Foto Splendid Acsinte. There he proceeded to document the surrounding community in over 5,000 images.
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Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
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Back in the 1860s, the capital of the United States was glimpsing two visions of its country: one of brutality, and one of beauty. The latter was captured by Carleton Watkins in his photographs of an untouched wilderness in the West.
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From the tiny harvest mouse twisting a humble home of blades of grass, to the lofty fields of compass termite towers appearing like relics of some ancient world, the structures of the animal kingdom are astounding in their complexity of forms. Nature photographer Ingo Arndt dedicated two years of tr
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Photographer Douglas Ljungkvist first went to Ocean Beach, New Jersey, in 1993, reluctantly. But to please his girlfriend, he stayed, and then came vacation after summer vacation of growing more attached to the little homes in their faded pastel hues.
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Viewing living anatomy is an essential component of many art educations, but rare are the classes where this extends beyond humans.
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If NASA astronauts land on Mars, they might not look very human at all.
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Four Seasons hotel sued over Picasso, Armenian orphan rug may go on display, Smithsonian's Fossil Halls close until 2019, Cold War satellite images reveal lost archaeology, and more from the week in art news.
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Prussian explorer Alexander von Humboldt has his name immortalized on a bay in California, a mountain range in New Zealand, towns all over the world, an orchid, and even a squid. Who exactly this man of wanderlust was, however, remains less familiar. A new exhibition at the Americas Society on the U