This afternoon, the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington, DC, hosted an emergency meeting of tribal leaders, government representatives, and NGO officials to call for a halt to a Monday auction in Paris that involves human remains and sacred indigenous objects.
May 24, 2016
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an SFMOMA café started selling half-baked copies of art-themed desserts, torch-carrying protesters raided Stonehenge, and cops got in trouble for a making a sand sculpture of a nude murder victim.
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Apply for Creative Residencies in Visual and Digital Arts at the Banff Centre
The Banff Artist in Residence program provides time and space for artists, curators, and arts professionals to create, research, experiment, and cultivate new directions in their work.
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A Hellish L Train Commute Inspires a Graphic Novel History of Williamsburg
Here’s one way to deal with a hellish subway commute: stare at your fellow passengers, draw their portraits, and turn them into characters in a graphic novel.
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A Public Art Project Invites Gentrifiers to Confess Their Sins
On a Saturday evening a few weekends ago, several artists, performers, activists, and writers gathered at an apartment in Chelsea to discuss their relationship to the city-wide process of gentrification.
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Exhibition Explores Mabel Dodge Luhan’s Artistic Impact on Taos and the US Southwest
Now, nearly a century after Mabel Dodge Luhan came to Taos, a new exhibition, American Moderns and the West, will explore the impact she had on the art, writings, and activism of 20th-century American Modernism.
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The Relics of Victorian Natural History in Eye-Popping Stereoscope
Natural history storerooms are a bit like drowned Noah’s Arks, with specimens from every realm of the animal world posthumously preserved.
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The Virtual Is Liminal: An Interview with Claudia Hart
I first met Claudia Hart in 1995, when she was living in Berlin and I had gone there to do research for a project.
