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Speaking on the floor of a General Electric plant just outside Milwaukee, Wisconsin, today, President Obama made some remarks on the state of education and employment in the US, bringing up art history degrees in the process.
Art
Thanks to online platforms like Google Art Project and institutions releasing more and more images on the web for free, the general public has access to museum collections in ways they never have before. But what if you could do more than just remix images of objects in a collection — what if you co
Art
There's something to be said for an impeccable still life, a carefully composed scene of blooming flowers and ripe, luscious food. But there's a reason that the form's name in French is nature morte: things that don't move are either inanimate or dead. A long tradition of beauty springs from the wel
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The saga of Detroit's bankruptcy negotiations rolls on, and the Detroit Free Press continues to have the scoop on the story. The latest: the Detroit Institute of Arts has pledged to raise $100 million over 20 years to contribute to the city's rescue.
News
We all know the stereotype of artists being a little ... you know, different, but two researchers are now saying that if you're perceived as being eccentric, people will think you make better art.
Art
This week, encounters among artists and with robots, openings in Bushwick, and screenings of Hitchcock's The Birds.
News
An astrophysicist at Texas State University has pinpointed the exact day and time when Monet observed the sunset that became the subject of his painting "The Cliff, Étretat, Sunset."
Art
In my grandmother's house, in the second bedroom, there is a drawer. Whenever we visit her, I derive a small thrill from opening it: the amount of random crap accumulated there is simply stunning. Pens and clips and crumpled-up paper — more misplaced miscellany than I can describe. This is the junk
Art
The Mike Kelley retrospective at MoMA PS1 is, in a word, large. One might expect as much, given that it is a retrospective, but this one is uniquely big: it marks the first time the entire museum has ever been given over to one artist.
Opinion
There are so many things to say about the New York Times Magazine cover for this coming weekend, which features Hillary Clinton's face stretched and wrinkled and turned into a planet.
News
Ah, the promise of a new online art platform. So young, so fresh, so full of ideas about the future. And yet, so muddled about the present as to take an artist's work and make prints of it without permission.
News
Stories of Italy struggling to save its cultural heritage amid governmental dysfunction and a lack of funds are commonplace these days. But tales of the Italians getting creative with their efforts have been springing up too, and a piece from NPR yesterday points to another example: a program called