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Metropolitan Museum Gives Unrestricted Access to 375,000 Images
Under the institution's new Open Access policy, images of hundreds of thousands of works from its collection are available to copy, remix, and distribute freely.
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Books
The Improbable Nature of the Gowanus Canal, Photographed at Night
Since 2012, photographer Miska Draskoczy has explored the urban ecology of the toxic yet gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood.
Art
#HyperPicks: A Cabaret for the Bees
To close out its exhibition Nectar: War Upon the Bees, Pratt Manhattan Gallery hosts a lecture by Dr. Rachael Winfree and an "eco-political cabaret" by performance group the Buzz.
Film
A Documentary About China's Coal Mining Industry Fuels Western Biases
Zhao Liang's Behemoth is another instance of viewing China from a Western perspective — one that is quick to demean and infantilize Chinese citizens as incapable of governing themselves.
Art
Show Me the Money! Collective Fundraises for Pyramid to House 14,000 'Jerry Maguire' Tapes
Everything Is Terrible! has 14,000 VHS tapes of the Hollywood film and wants $400,000 to lodge them in the southern California desert.
Film
A Search for Love and Safety in LGBTQ Nightclubs
When Adomako Aman decided to make Dancing in the Dark, he was seeking solidarity with “other gay men, especially gay men of color” who could share in his experience.
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Earn an MFA in Studio Art Over the Summer in Florence
SACI's Summer Low-Residency program offers those who have limited time to pursue graduate studies the opportunity to earn their MFA by completing 3 successive summers of intensive studies.
Art
When an Exhibition Leaves You Feeling Like an Idiot
Alivia Zivich, a co-curator of the chaotic exhibition Eric Schmid is an Idiot, likened the experience of putting the 80-something artist show together to "tying loose strings to other loose strings."
Art
As the Great Salt Lake Dries Up, "Spiral Jetty" May Be Marooned
The lake that hosts Robert Smithson's landmark earthwork is desiccating at an alarming rate.
Art
A Brief History of the Art Collectives of NYC's Chinatown
Chinatown has long been a home to radical organizers and artists, collectives, and movements that have taken on questions of art production and displacement.
Art
World's Smallest Biennale Drops Anchor on Caribbean Islet
There may not be another edition of the new Biennale de La Biche, as the wooden shack that hosts it may well disappear between now and 2019 due to rising sea levels.
Art
Miniature Military Drones Decorated in a Pakistani Folk Art Tradition
Mahwish Chishty projects Pakistan’s folk art traditions against the blank flanks of America’s weapons of war, subsumed by the very culture they target.