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How Medieval Manuscript Makers Experimented with Graphic Design
Designing English: Graphics on the Medieval Page at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Libraries considers how early English manuscripts approached graphic design.
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Pushing Back Against the Sensational Image of Chicago as "Chi-raq"
Amanda Williams, an architect turned artist, has shifted her practice from constructing buildings, to making work that understands and reveals the social implications of how and when they are destroyed.
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The Most Important Non-Superhero Comic You’ve Never Heard Of
Dave Sim's Cerebus, published 40 years ago, has had an enduring, complex influence.
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Louvre Abu Dhabi Claims They Own Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" [UPDATE 2]
The Louvre Abu Dhabi is now claiming it owns the world's most expensive artwork.
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The Long 1960s, Seen Through NYPD Surveillance Photographs
The show offers rich historical materials, but little contextualization or insight into its relevance for our current political moment.
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This week in art news: wildfires forced the Getty Center and Skirball Cultural Center to close, the buyer of Leonardo's "Salvator Mundi" was revealed, and President Trump drastically reduced the size of two US National Monuments.
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A House in Baltimore Tells Stories Across Its Walls, Windows, Towels, and Sheets
Joseph Young's MicroFiction RowHouse consists of short texts and fragments of a fictional family's history playing out across the surfaces of the artist's home.
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Design Your Own Curriculum in Lesley University’s MFA in Photography and Integrated Media Program
Submit your application to be considered for a merit scholarship.
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New WSJ Report Claims Saudi Crown Prince Is Real Buyer of $450.3M Leonardo [UPDATED]
A day after the New York Times identified the buyer of "Salvator Mundi" as an obscure Saudi prince, the Wall Street Journal claims he was merely serving as a proxy for the country's crown prince.
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Looking for America at Art Basel Miami Beach
If you know where to look, you will find heartbreakingly potent art at the fair this year.
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Skeleton of 18th-Century Philosopher Jeremy Bentham Will Travel to the Metropolitan Museum
The auto-icon of 18th-century philosopher Jeremy Bentham will travel from London to New York for an exhibition at the Met Breuer that explores the human body.
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Pratt Manhattan Gallery Presents See Yourself E(x)ist, a Group Show on the Future of Humans and Nature
See Yourself E(x)ist presents incidences of human interaction — with animals, insects, leaves, trees, earth, and time — that yield extraordinary artifacts, engineered forms of hope, and objects of power.