OAKLAND, Calif. — I don’t know if it’s just me, but alien life — and our fascination with it — seems to have hit something of a crescendo recently. There’s the question of alien life in Earth’s atmosphere. We have the continued search on Mars, despite an utter dearth of evidence, and there’s even a claim that rain in India’s Kerala suggests that extraterrestrial life has visited our planet.
October 4, 2013
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Why the Bushwick Film Festival Is Different
It’s hard to believe that the Bushwick Film Festival is six years old, but co-founder Kweighbaye Kotee explains that it has slowly grown to a festival that will be screening 4 feature films and 10 short films, hosting 4 panels, an art show, a live-taping for a television show, and an award ceremony all over the course of four days.
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Exclusive Highlights from Performa 13’s Surrealist Reader
Here is an exclusive look at Performa’s Surrealist Reader, along with excerpts of many of the texts.
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Get to Know Your Modernist Architecture Neighbors this Weekend
This Saturday, the US chapter of Docomomo, a nonprofit dedicated to “documentation and conservation of buildings, sites and neighborhoods of the modern movement” is hosting Tour Day 2013 across the country.
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Art Movements
The government shutdown’s impact on art, looted Egyptian museum objects recovered, Queens Museum sets reopening date, International Photography Hall of Fame finds new home, and more…
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Photographing the State of the Environment in the 1970s
Back in the 1970s, the Environmental Protection Agency sent over 70 photographers to all 50 states in order to document the environmental concerns of the regions.
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New Banksys Pop Up as Old Ones Are Freshened Up [UPDATED]
It’s another day, and another Banksy in New York, as the secretive street artist has revealed a new series in three different locations.
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The Digital Literacy of Tristan Perich’s Sound
HANOVER, New Hampshire — When Tristan Perich, creator of the “Microtonal Wall” for the Museum of Modern Art’s Soundings exhibition, told me that understanding computer languages was now practically “a prerequisite for living,” two things came to mind.
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Break Through the Lines with Artist-Designed Coloring Books
For anyone soothed by the careful filling in of white space or enthused by wrecking it all with random slashes of color and unconventional hues, there’s been a recent influx of coloring books created by artists.
