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Artists Sue City of Memphis for Painting Over Sanctioned Murals
Twelve artists who created murals at the behest of nonprofit Paint Memphis, Inc. are suing the city for buffing five of the murals and threatening to erase three more.
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Soon You May Be Able to Text with 2,000 Egyptian Hieroglyphs
Collaborations among Egyptologists and digital linguistics promise global visualizations of what was written on inscriptions, papyri, wall paintings, and other sources of Hieroglyphs. It may also allow for more popular knowledge of Egyptian Hieroglyphs and encourage its assimilation into popular lan
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Brooklyn's Art Fairs Do Their Own Thing During Frieze Week
During the 2018 Frieze Week, there are three art fairs in Brooklyn and we had to check them out.
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Required Reading
This week, dating a museum, trusting Silicon Valley with our common history, a new book on photographer Garry Winogrand, how slaves are depicted in Ancient art, and more.
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Néstor Perlongher Conjures the Disappeared and the Dead
Perlongher evokes Argentina, its people, and their resistance in the face of violent dictatorship.
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Mernet Larsen Welcomes You to the Vortex
Larsen’s dry, matter-of-fact humor and eye for the absurd are everywhere in her paintings.
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Zoe Pettijohn Schade Looks at the Inevitable and Doesn’t Blink
It is one thing to get lost in a meticulous, intricate work of overlapping abstract patterns, and quite another to have it look back at you.
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Highlights from Los Angeles's New Art Book Showcase, Acid-Free
The Acid-Free Book Market launched Friday evening and continues through Sunday. Here are some highlights.
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The Stories of African Contemporary Art Are Everywhere at the 1-54 Art Fair
From Ralph Ziman's massive Ziman sculpture to Uthman Wahaab's painterly critiques of technology, this art fair devoted to contemporary African art is packed with fascinating projects of every kind.
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The Scribes Somehow Survive
The soldiers are killed, and the jesters change their names.
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Wandering the Artist Studios of Dumbo
Open studios events allow a type of intimacy with an artist's work that is rare.
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A Feminist Artist's Postcolonial Animations
Chitra Ganesh's appropriations of traditional Hindu and Buddhist artworks are part homage to the past, part alternate realities and part badass feminist interventions.