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Wind-Powered Sculptures Designed to Outlive Us All
For over two decades, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been designing kinetic sculptures of large, skeletal creatures that shuffle across beaches, powered solely by the wind.
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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Study Suggests Medical Students Should Visit Museums to Connect with Dementia Patients
Research has shown that engaging with art is beneficial to people with dementia, and a number of cultural institutions around the US have established therapeutic programs for patients suffering from such chronic diseases.
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Picturing the Words of Migrants Detained in the US
CultureStrike has launched Visions from the Inside, a project that invites 15 artists around the country to each engage with and illustrate one letter by a detained migrant at Karnes County Residential Center in Texas.
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Preserving the Templates for Historic Stained Glass Found Around the World
To organize the many pieces that form just one stained glass window, artists often create full-scale drawings of the final work that serve as maps for the intricate process.
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This Collaged Facebook Parody Needs Your Data
Welcome to 2016. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen our data, fleeing Facebook's offices in Menlo Park with a mysterious, "charismatic hustler" known as Maurice Carbonneau.
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The Diversity Problem at American Museums Gets a Report
A new report released by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation takes a broader look at staff diversity in American art museums.
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On the Fourth Anniversary of Fukushima, Artists Install an Exhibition Amid the Radiation
It's an art exhibition you can't visit. Not yet, at least, until officials declare the Fukushima exclusion zone habitable again, which for certain areas could take decades.
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Carsten Höller Wraps World’s Longest Slide Around Anish Kapoor’s London Tower
This week, the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London announced that "the world's longest and tallest tunnel slide" will wrap around Anish Kapoor's "ArcelorMittal Orbit."
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Idyllic Illustrations of Daily Postwar Life
In 1915, during World War I, the printing company Wills & Hepworth began publishing "pure and healthy literature" for children marked with a ladybird logo, giving rise to the London-based publishing company now known as Ladybird Books.
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Vandal Who Smashed Colorado Town Sculpture "Destroyed the Fun"
A public sculpture in Durango, Colorado, that has divided and entertained residents of the small town since its installation last August was destroyed earlier this week and the vandal remains at large, according to the Durango Herald.
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Surprise, Women's History Museum Actually Devoted to Jack the Ripper!
The founder of the controversial, soon-to-open Jack the Ripper Museum — initially presented as a museum that celebrates women in London's East End — is defending his vision of it as a site to explore local women's history and stories.
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11 Hidden Oases of Art and Green in NYC
Across the five boroughs, quiet pockets of public green space offer a taste of culture outdoors.