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Baltimore’s Roving Art Org, The Contemporary, Suspends Operations Indefinitely
After failing to find a new executive director, the organization's board decided to go on hiatus.
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Best of 2017: Our Top 20 NYC Art Shows
It was a powder keg of a year in visual art, with strong, politically inflected, deeply personal, and wildly inventive exhibitions that touched on the classics, courted controversy, and yielded new favorites.
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Your Paintings Are Numbered
The midcentury paint-by-number craze revealed a belief that with enough curiosity, and the ability to follow basic directions, anyone can be an artist.
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The Art of Slowing Down with Laurie Anderson, Ekene Ijeoma, and Ryoichi Kurokawa
From a digital waterfall to an encased jazz trio, there were moments of quiet contemplation in the middle of a busy weekend of art, music, and festivities.
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Virginia Heffernan Writes About the Seductive Wonders of the Analog Arcade
Heffernan's essay is part of PlayTime at the Peabody Essex Museum, the first major thematic exhibition to explore the role of play in contemporary art and culture.
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Knight Landesman and Artforum Move to Dismiss Lawsuit Sparked by Sexual Harassment Allegations
On Monday, Landesman filed a motion calling for the dismissal of a lawsuit brought by a former Artforum employee, Amanda Schmitt, who claims he sexually harassed her.
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Marking the Winter Solstice with a Shout at the Whitney Museum
Celebrate the winter solstice with Sibyl Kempson's rituals tuning in to the sun.
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A Public, Collective, and Collaborative Tribute to Vito Acconci
The Storefront for Art and Architecture is inviting Acconci acolytes to inscribe tribute messages on its walls.
Books
How Ghosts Became Transparent, and Other Spectral Evolutions
The Ghost: A Cultural History by Susan Owens explores the evolution of the ghost in British art and literature, from Hamlet's father to Marley's ghost.
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Combine Practical and Classroom Experience with George Eastman Museum and University of Rochester's Graduate Program
The Photographic Preservation and Collections Management master’s program is the only graduate program dedicated to both the object-based study of photography and the academic study of images.
Art
Best of 2017: Our Top 15 Brooklyn Art Shows
From project spaces off the beaten track to nonprofits in Dumbo, galleries in Bushwick, and the Brooklyn Museum, there was so much strong work in the borough this year.
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The Wellcome Collection Acquires a Dignified Portrait of a 17th-Century Bearded Woman
The Wellcome Collection in London acquired a 17th-century oil painting of Barbara van Beck, who had a rare genetic condition causing excessive hair growth on her body.