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ArtRx LA
This week, sign-painter Norm Laich opens a show of his own work, the Craft and Folk Art Museum hosts a community art book installation, a gallery in Santa Ana puts 2016 to rest, and more.
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New York City Ballet Art Series Presents Santtu Mustonen
Art Series aims to cross-pollinate the disciplines of performing and visual arts – and their audiences – by inviting a contemporary artist to create a site specific work of art at New York City Ballet’s Lincoln Center home.
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Astrological Aesthetics: January 2017 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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The Mexican Modernists Who Found Success in Decadence
An exhibition at Paris's Grand Palais tracks art made in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, focusing on the influence of the European avant-garde and Mexicans' celebratory attitude toward death.
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ArtRx NYC
A new year means new performance in New York, as four annual festivals hit the city's stages. Plus, don't miss holograms by Louise Bourgeois, a video portrait of Yvonne Rainer, and more.
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John Berger, Who Helped the World to See, Dies at 90
The author of Ways of Seeing had a profound impact on generations of artists, critics, historians, curators, and art lovers.
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Updating Carpets as Art Objects but Missing Their Potential
How does one update this ancient form to make it relevant now?
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When to Share a Good Idea
You need to find the perfect moment.
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Celebrate New Year's with Vintage Cards of Lucky Pigs and Drunken Butterflies
Celebrate the New Year with these 19th and early 20th-century postcards, featuring lucky pigs, pensive pansies, and menacing snowmen.
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The First Known Photograph of the White House
A Welsh immigrant named John Plumbe, Jr., who was one of the country's first prominent professional photographers, took the daguerreotype in January 1846.
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A Photo Show Romanticizes Yosemite at the Expense of Native Americans
It's through exhibitions like this that you can see the profound disconnect between institutions and the history they are entrusted with.
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Happy Public Domain Day! From Stieglitz to Severini, 12 Artists Whose Work Is Now Copyright-Free
January 1 was Public Domain Day — here's a look at artists whose work is leaving copyright behind this year (although not in the United States).