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The next few years are going to have the art world's focus zooming in more and more on West Asia, or at least that's the expectation of mammoth museums like the Louvre and Guggenheim which both plan to open shiny new outposts in Abu Dhabi. As something of a lead up to this era of eastern art expansi
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Earlier this week, officials with the Smithsonian Institution gave testimony on the impact of federal budget cuts from sequestration. The cuts will force the Smithsonian Institution to not just cancel or put on hold some upcoming exhibitions, but, starting May 1, to temporarily close off galleries t
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Newsstands as these highly individual, cluttered points of information in a personal dialogue with the street have almost totally disappeared from New York City. A huge reason was the raising of annual vendor fees from the hundreds to the thousands in the 1990s, and the replacing of the old booths t
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It's shocking that a building designed by the biggest architect of the past century could disappear so quickly and quietly, but last month Frank Lloyd Wright's auto showroom on Park Avenue was demolished and the architectural world is just now feeling the reverberations.
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Our last century of urban sprawl seems too recent to already be in ruins, but we do tend to move on quickly from our best laid plans. Now looking at the stranded shopping malls in unfinished subdivisions or the half-built vision of some cheaply made utopian dream, you could see them as odd beacons o
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A lot of 179 of these tintype photographs dating from the 1860s to 1890s is part of the upcoming Fine Photographs & Photobooks sale at Swann Auction Galleries, and are something of a core sample of the shifting social changes in the country, and how those 19th century people were choosing to remembe
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Le Corbusier may have been one of the most influential and prolific modern architects of the 20th century, but I'd never had a chance to step inside one of the Swiss-born visionary's structures until I found myself walking down a long alleyway in Paris' 16th arrondissement to his Villa La Roche.
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Tens of thousands of the visitors who mob the Louvre each day drawn by those sirens the slightly smiling Mona Lisa, the amputated beauty the Venus de Milo, and the windswept Winged Victory of Samothrace had their hopes dashed like ships against the rocks by a staff strike in response to pickpocketin
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Jan Fabre's current exhibition at Galerie Daniel Templon in Paris features an open coffin and insects crawling all over human brains, yet it's one of the least startling things the high profile Belgian artist has done.
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Since the Dumbo Arts Center was founded in 1997 as the neighborhood's first nonprofit arts organization, the once overlooked industrial segment of Brooklyn in the shadow of the monolithic Manhattan and Brooklyn bridges has seen rising real estate prices and shifting demographics, so that while some
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PARIS — When I stepped into the Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, I knew I would be seeing a lot of taxidermy trophies and guns in this museum of the hunt and nature, but I wasn't expecting contemporary art. However, since its renovation in 2007, the museum in Paris' Marais neighborhood has embedd
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The diversity of sex and gender in the animal kingdom is totally overlooked when people use the argument "it's not natural" to say that someone's lifestyle goes against their personal moral constructs. What's "natural" is actually incredibly complex, considering we have hermaphrodite leopard slugs,