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RISD Students Design Microgravity Socks & Other Apparel for NASA Astronauts
The astronauts will wear the designs for a mission to the International Space Station in 2025.
Sarah Rose Sharp
Sarah Rose Sharp is a Detroit-based writer, activist, and multimedia artist. She is primarily concerned with the experiences of making and engaging with art, and researching the state of contemporary art in postindustrial and redeveloping cities.
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Governors Island Gets Its First Ever Ice Sculpture Competition, and You Can Enter
As New York braces for a powerful storm, local artists can share their designs for ice sculptures to be constructed and displayed in the island’s new Winter Village.
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An Unbelievably Tiny Turtle And Other Stunning Underwater Photos
The winners of this year’s Ocean Art Underwater Photo Contest prove that life is indeed better under the sea.
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The Cass Corridor Movement's Salvation Through Salvage
Working with what they had, Cass Corridor artists scrapped and repurposed anything they could get their hands on, attempting to find some salvation for their city through a literal process of salvage and reuse.
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Lillian Schwartz, Pioneer of Tech Art, Gets a Museum Archive
Schwartz was at the forefront of computer-generated art before desktops or the kind of software that makes it commonplace today.
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“Dune” Crypto Group That Paid $3M For Rare Book Mocked For Thinking They Owned The Rights
A coalition of investors raised funds to purchase the film’s storyboard and announced they would “make the book public.”
Books
A Portrait of the Last Six Years of US Politics
Brink is not a fun book, and it shouldn’t be.
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This Missouri County's Redesigned Seal Is a Photoshop Atrocity
The design appears to have been put together in a 1995 version of Microsoft Paint.
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UK Bans Export on a Rare Painting Featuring a Black and White Woman
A committee decreed the painting’s departure from the UK would be a misfortune because of its outstanding significance to the study of race and gender in the 17th century.
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France Approves a Controversial, Modernized Renovation Plan for Notre-Dame’s Interior
Critics have likened the new plan, which will feature murals and light effects, to “Disney.”
Books
Through Photography, a Book Tries to Capture the Slow Creep of History
For the past nine years, Michael Sherwin visited and photographed ancient earthworks, sacred landforms, documented archeological sites, and contested battlegrounds of Native American people.
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Parents of Michigan School Shooter Took Refuge in Artist Studio in Detroit
Detroit police received a tip that led them to Andrzej Sikora’s art studio, where police took James and Jennifer Crumbley into custody.