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Daily Archives: December 24, 2014
Christmas Tree Drone Delivers Yuletide Nightmares
How does Santa deliver all those gifts in just a few short hours every Christmas? With drones, of course!
Artists Petition the Pope to Abolish Hell (Again)
A group of artists is collecting signatures on a petition demanding that Pope Francis I abolish hell.
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 83rd installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace. Want to take part? Submit your studio — just check out the submission guidelines.
Best of 2014: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows That Weren’t in Brooklyn
Let’s face it: there’s Brooklyn, and then there’s the rest of New York City. (Sorry, rest of New York City!)
Tim Burton Art Fraud Drama ‘Big Eyes’ Has Big Problems
At first glance, Big Eyes may look like the least Burtonesque film Tim Burton has ever made.
How to Fix a Monet After Somebody Punches It
Conservators are probably the closest thing the art world has to surgeons.
A Photographic Window onto 19th-Century Burma and India
WASHINGTON, DC — Captain Linnaeus Tripe: Photographer of India and Burma 1852–1860, on display in the National Gallery of Art through January 4, showcases some of the earliest photographs of India and Burma.
Preserving an Era in Africa’s Photographic History
“Once everyone gets their own camera, they won’t need us anymore,” one of the photographers told Tache. “Who knows, maybe they will shoot even better than us. We will disappear little by little and only the laboratories will remain, for the customers.”