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A French History of Gold, Gilded, and Fancy Frames
Walk into a gallery of 17th- or 18th-century French paintings and prepare to be blinded by the gilding that encircles each work like an overwrought halo.
Allison Meier
Allison C. Meier is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Oklahoma, she has been covering visual culture and overlooked history for print and online media since 2006. She moonlights as a cemetery tour guide.
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A Guide to What Replaced the Avant-garde Spaces of 20th-Century New York
Which art hubs of 20th century New York City are now sterilized condos, and where does the creative spirit remain?
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Photos of Brooklyn's Waterfront Show a Century of Change
The Brooklyn waterfront is radically changing.
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The Magna Carta Makes a Rare and Brief Appearance in NYC
For one week only, a 1217 version of the Magna Carta is visiting New York City on a rare tour from England.
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Rare 1915 Films Show Rodin, Monet, Renoir, and Degas in Their Twilight Years
In 1915, with the newly innovated film camera, a young Russian-born, French actor named Sacha Guitry captured some of France's greatest artists and authors.
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Painting Murals on a 250-Year-Old Farmhouse to Preserve It
Staten Island's Historic Richmond Town is experimenting with an unconventional way of preserving an 18th-century farmhouse: inviting local artists to paint contemporary murals across the structure.
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Traversing the Brooklyn Botanic Garden with Isamu Noguchi
Eighteen sculptures by Isamu Noguchi are dispersed across the Brooklyn Botanic Gardens just as late summer is turning to fall.
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Henry Howard, the Forgotten 19th-Century Architect of New Orleans
A three-decade exhumation to retrieve the forgotten career of one of the most influential 19th-century American architects was completed this June with the release of Henry Howard: Louisiana's Architect.
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Superfund Stories and Photographs for America's 1,300 Most Toxic Sites
There are over 1,300 Superfund sites across the United States, and Toxic Sites US is a photography, video, documentary, data, and storytelling project to humanize those statistics of pollution.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of works by Man Ray stored in a Long Island auto body shop managed by his nephews = 4,500
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Performance Hazards, Odd Objects, and More Insights from #AskACurator Day
Today is the 2015 edition of Ask a Curator day.
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It’s Hard Not to Like New York’s Harborside Photo Festival
Last weekend, the 2015 edition of Photoville opened the doors of its repurposed shipping containers for a two-week fair of photography.