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50 Years of the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in 50 Objects
For half a century, the annual festival in Washington, DC has showcased folk cultures from the four corners of the world.
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9 Art-Filled Summer Day Trips from New York
Hyperallergic staffers pick their favorite destinations within three hours of the city.
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Chicago Installs “REAL FAKE” Sculpture in Front of Trump Tower
A gleaming, six-foot-tall sculpture by local artist Scott Reeder appeared this week near the downtown Trump International Hotel and Tower, spelling out just two words in thick, golden letters: "REAL FAKE."
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Paul Ramírez Jonas Asks What Constitutes a Public
In his much-deserved 25-year survey at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Ramírez-Jonas challenges conventional definitions of public art by openly asking what brings people together.
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Adobe Releases Digital Brushes Modeled on Edvard Munch’s
Oslo's Munch Museum and an "award winning Photoshop brush maker" teamed up to create a set of digital brushes based on seven real ones that Munch used.
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What Your Snack Choices Say About You as an Artist
Unpacking that craving for Triscuits.
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16 Manhattan Galleries Host 36 Out-of-Town Art Spaces
Condo New York is a sprawling, collaborative omnibus exhibition spanning spaces in Chelsea, the Lower East Side, and Tribeca.
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An Artist Uncovers Asheville’s Hidden African American History
DeWayne Barton founded Hood Huggers to tell the stories of Asheville's black community, which has been and continues to be displaced.
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Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry
Though he has both claimed to have and denied having Cherokee heritage, institutions often present Durham as a Native American artist.
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The American Landscape Photographers Who Focused on the Environment in the ’70s
A desire to avoid romanticizing the landscape is fundamental to the shifts in landscape photography that occurred in the late 1960s and 1970s.
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The Sophisticated Design of a 3,000-Year-Old Wooden Toe
Researchers are studying anew one of the oldest prosthetic devices ever made.
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A Kuwaiti Artist Contemplates the Failure of a Museum that Never Opened
Alia Farid, for her first show in Paris, uses the graphic look of conceptual art to fashion an installation that explores a museum’s failure.