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GIFs, Webcomics, Memes, and More Join the Library of Congress Archives
The Library of Congress has added webcomics and web culture sites to its digital archives, collecting viral content that could've otherwise been lost to time.
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Lygia Pape's Daughter Sues Electronics Giant LG for Copyright Infringement
After she denied the company's requests to use an image of one of Pape's works, the company made its own derivative version, Paula Pape claims in her lawsuit.
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Florida Man Calls for Replacing Confederate Monument with Manatee Memorial
A denizen of Bradenton is petitioning the city to replace a memorial to Confederate soldiers with one for the beloved, recently deceased Snooty.
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When Comics Abandon Narrative and Venture into Abstraction
An exhibition at Printed Matter features 15 artists whose serial comics play with the conventions of narrative.
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Remembering the NAACP's Silent Protest Parade, a 1917 March Against Racial Terror
Yale's Beinecke Library marks the centennial of when 10,000 people marched silently through New York City, one of the earliest African American civil rights demonstrations.
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Artistic Responses to the Systemic Inequalities in US Education
For this Smack Mellon exhibition, artists were given textual prompts regarding education, particularly how it relates to the historical struggles for social equity and justice.
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Wielding Instruments Like Weapons, a Marching Band Sweeps Through Mexico City
Erick Meyenberg's The wheel bears no resemblance to a leg reflects on modern Mexican society as a machine powered by the mechanisms of the state.
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An Enveloping Soundscape Conceived in the 1970s Is Realized for the First Time
Inside Doug Wheeler's Synthetic Desert, the traffic of New York City, the din of the museum, the chaotic noise of everyday life — it all evaporates.
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When Museum Security Let Down Their Guard
"Everyone wants to touch the art. It's just human nature."
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Syrian Collective’s Videos Turn Up in Triennial After They Refused to Participate [UPDATED]
Curator Massimiliano Gioni approached the collective Abounaddara to be included in his exhibition The Restless Earth last year, but the group refused.
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After Brush with Death, Microsoft Paint Lives On
The outcry of support for sweet, sweet MS Paint seemed for naught, until Microsoft had a change of heart.
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Banksy’s “Balloon Girl” Voted Britain’s Favorite Artwork
The iconic mural beat masterpieces from John Constable, J. M. W. Turner, and David Hockney.