Plastics manufacturer Nissei Eco introduced Pepper last month, a robe-donning robot trained to recite prayers and scripture while tapping a little drum.
September 7, 2017
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Liquitex Invites Artists to Take the Cadmium-Free Challenge
Liquitex cadmium-free acrylic paints give you the same performance, lightfastness and vibrancy as existing cadmium paints – they’re just safer for you.
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18th-Century Nautical Charts Show Radical Coral Reef Loss in Florida
Researchers compared 18th-century nautical charts to contemporary ocean data, revealing a dramatic loss of Florida’s coral reefs.
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Art Provocateurs Hang “Ku Klux Klowns” in Virginia’s Capital [UPDATED]
The anonymous art collective Indecline hung eight clowns dressed in KKK robes from a tree in Richmond, Virginia.
Posted inFilm
Can a Tiny Tuscan Town Keep Its “Poor Theater” Alive?
In the documentary Spettacolo, the people of Monticchiello see art as a tool to promote populism.
Posted inArt
Found Object Sculptures that Spell Out an Urgent Environmental Message
At MASS MoCA, sculptures by Lonnie Holley and Dawn DeDeaux reflect the environmental and political state of the earth today.
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BRIC Presents Brooklyn Photographs, a Group Exhibition Tracing Change and Diversity in the Borough
Work of eleven photographers captures life and traditions in various Brooklyn neighborhoods from the 1960s to the present.
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In London’s Reopened Garden Museum, Horticulture History Is Told Among Tombs
The Garden Museum in London has reopened, showcase a recreation of a 17th-century curiosity cabinet, horticultural art, and the tombs of the deconsecrated church in which it’s located.
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The Portraiture of Paul Cézanne
Portraits by Cézanne at the Musée d’Orsay includes 60 psychologically loaded canvases from all periods of the artist’s career.
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Sometimes a Mop Bucket Is Just a Mop Bucket
And sometimes it’s a readymade sculpture waiting to be “activated.”
