What do you hear in the quietest place on Earth?
November 2015
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Watch Sculptors, Knitters, and a Bob Ross Marathon on Twitch’s New Art Site
Twitch, the live streaming website that lets millions of viewers follow along as users play their favorite video games — complete with live commentary — has expanded into art.
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Formal and Furious Landscapes
HUDSON, NY — All 12 of Ying Li’s furiously brushed, vibrantly hued landscapes look to have been produced by a cathartic burst of energy.
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A Digital Fossil Finder for a New Crowdsourced Age of Archaeology
High-resolution aerial images captured by kites and drones could reveal hidden fossils in northern Kenya’s Turkana Basin, where the high temperatures and uneven terrain makes on-the-ground archaeology difficult.
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Rediscovering Bill Viola’s Forgotten, Resonant Sound Compositions
LONDON — To better understand these early, rarely exhibited sound works, visitors have to go back in time.
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Required Reading
This week, the origins of color, what art museums today should look like, a guide to feminist cybersecurity, a tax safe haven for selfish art collectors, emoticons as court evidence, and more.
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Weekend Words: Two
“Driven by fears that an aging population could jeopardize China’s economic ascent,” writes Chris Buckley in The New York Times, “the Communist Party leadership ended its decades-old ‘one child’ policy on Thursday, announcing that all married couples would be allowed to have two children.”
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Tic-Tac-Toe at the End of the World
PHILADELPHIA — As I walked through the Dufala Brothers new show, Waste Dreams, currently on view at the Fleisher/Ollman Gallery in Philadelphia, I had the feeling of a dream in which I seemed to recognize everything, but none of the dimensions were right and nothing could be used for its intended purpose.
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Squeak Carnwath’s Guilt-Free Zone Is Our Space
Squeak Carnwath’s exhibition, What Before Comes After, at Jane Lombard is the artist’s first with the eponymous gallery (formerly Lombard Fried) and her first in New York since 2000.
