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Special Edition: 🖌️Artists’ Signatures ✍️
In this special edition, we investigate what artists' signatures actually mean, and the fascinating results reveal the multifaceted history of this curious phenomenon.
Hrag Vartanian
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This week, gifted DeSantis a "fascist" snowflake, NASA's Webb telescope captures a supernova, corporatizing London's creativity, and much more.
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This week, a Black Southern quilt collection is donated to a Mississippi museum, the fascinating AI-generated ceramic glazes, a map of Italian Fascist monuments, and can clothing ever truly be recycled?
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We Asked AI to Review Refik Anadol's "Unsupervised" at MoMA
What does the internet's most popular Artificial Intelligence chatbot have to say about Anadol’s AI-based artwork?
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This week, more inclusive crayons, categorizing female muses as artists, Tiktok-fueled "secret menus," Bernie walks into a TikTok, and much more.
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This week, a new portrait of André Breton, the problem with painted shadows, the story of a misidentified 19th-century potter, and more.
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This week, feline cinematography, two writers on Salman Rushdie, your guide to Valentine’s Day cards, and what happened to the documentary industry?
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This week, AP Style Twitter goes wild, the "enshittification" of TikTok, and did people actually come flooding back to New York City after COVID?
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Your Concise New York Art Guide for February 2023
Your list of must-see, fun, insightful, and very New York art events this month, including Ed Ruscha, Nina Katchadourian, Luis Camnitzer, Martha Edelheit, and more.
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This week, blonde hair supremacy, Salman Rushdie's new novel, and why do boutique shops all look the same?
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This week, new chatbots will write your essays, psychedelics and climate activism, architectural media’s obsession with "house porn," and much more.
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This week, aliens might be closer than we thought, the Orange County Museum of Art is not ok, Harvard is a mess, how casteism is hurting representation in the sciences, and much more.