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Immersive Art Installations Light Up Houston's Day for Night Festival
Day for Night in Houston has invited 14 artists to create interactive art installations at the festival which celebrates sound and light.
Claire Voon
Claire Voon is a former staff writer for Hyperallergic. Originally from Singapore, she grew up near Washington, D.C. and is now based in Chicago.
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Helsinki City Council Kills Plan for Costly Guggenheim Satellite
Helsinki will not be home to another Guggenheim outpost, Finnish lawmakers decided on Wednesday night, voting 53 to 32 reject the controversial plans for a new museum.
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Egyptian Writer Convicted of "Violating Public Modesty" Faces Final Appeal
Ahmed Naji is currently serving a two-year prison sentence, after a man claimed the author's words made him sick.
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Electrifying Photographs of an Old German Guesthouse
For years, photographer Andrea Grützner was fascinated by a massive guesthouse in a German village. In 2014, she entered the house with her camera, photographing its well-tread rooms.
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An Artist's "End White Supremacy" Sign Lights Up a New York Gallery's Facade
Sam Durant's "End White Supremacy" goes up on the facade of the Paula Cooper Gallery in New York, and when it comes down is anyone's guess.
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A Polish Avant-Garde Artist's Endless Draw for the Line
The Polish artist Franciszka Themerson's distinct pictorial language emphasizes the role of the line and its potential even in its most minimal form.
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150 Artists and Activists Take Their Trump Protest to Ivanka's Doorstep
Over 150 artists, writers, curators, gallery workers, and other activists showed up outside Ivanka Trump's Manhattan apartment in a protest organized by Halt Action Group.
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In Wake of Trump's Election, Protestors Address Climate Change at the British Museum
In a performance at the British Museum, the theatrical protest group BP or not BP? marked the final weekend of a BP-sponsored exhibition and responded to the election of Donald Trump.
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35-Year-Old Brit Crowned World’s Best van Gogh Look-alike
A man named Daniel Baker has won the "I am Vincent" competition launched by artist and writer Douglas Coupland over the summer.
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A One-of-a-Kind Room Fragrancer from Medieval Europe Finally Gets Its Due
The Cleveland Museum of Art's ornate table fountain, a 14th-century hydraulic automata, is the focus of a new exhibition on the popular medieval decorative objects.
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Ancient Tableau of Boats Found in Egypt
Archeologists have recently discovered 120 drawings of boats in an Ancient Egyptian tomb that would've once housed a 65-foot-long vessel.
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A Small Celebration of One of the Kiowa Six’s Most Prolific Painters
Four paintings by Stephen Mopope, discovered a few years ago at Brown University, are on view for the first time.