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"One Minute Sculpture” at Twenty: Erwin Wurm’s Ethics Demonstrated in Geometrical Order

Wurm’s latest series of one minute sculptures, incorporating mid-century modern furniture and presented alongside five new cast bronze sculptures at Lehmann Maupin, evidences that, even as he plays with variations on familiar themes, his work remains relevant and fresh.

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One Hundred Years of World War

“Wounded Man (Autumn 1916, Bapaume),” from Dix’s portfolio of 50 etchings, The War (Der Krieg), shows a brutal reality that lays waste to George W. Bush’s anesthetized vision of war wounds.

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Hunting for the Magic Mushrooms of Ancient East Asian Art

A Mushroom Perspective on Sacred Geography explores the visual history of the lingzhi mushroom in art from China, Japan, and Korea.

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Watch the British Library Digitize One of the World's Largest Books

The 1660 Klencke Atlas is taller than most people, and now its rare maps are easily accessible online.

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Mark Bradford Faults New York Times for Publishing Photos of His Work Without His Permission [UPDATED]

The article, published earlier this week, includes images of unfinished works that will be featured in his solo show at the Venice Biennale.

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Vito Acconci, Audacious Artist and Experimental Architect, Dies at 77

For a little under two decades, Acconci produced strikingly original and impressionable art, before abandoning it for experimental architecture and design.

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An International Exhibition Imagines an Intersectional Future

The pieces in Transparency Shade build the aesthetics of a hybrid world, where identities are blurred and cultural or racial dichotomies dissolved.

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NFL Draft Blocks Access to Philadelphia Museum of Art’s Iconic Stairs

For the past two weeks, as the NFL has erected a huge stage for its 2017 draft on the front steps of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, making access to the area very difficult.

Books

The Early-20th-Century Photographer Who Magnified the Alien Beauty of Plants

Using a homemade camera, Karl Blossfeldt captured the sculptural details of plants, from the geometry of a seed pod to the alien curl of a fern.

Edvard Munch, "The Scream" (1910 version, Munch Museum, via Wikimedia Commons) juxtaposed with image of nacreous clouds over

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Meteorologists: Munch Was Mad for Mother-of-Pearl Clouds When He Made "The Scream"

In a new study, three scientists claim that Edvard Munch's iconic image was inspired by nacreous clouds, a rare meteorological phenomenon.

Books

Photos Evoke the Terror and Hope of the Underground Railroad

For her new book, Jeanine Michna-Bales photographed 100 sites along the Underground Railroad under cover of darkness.

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A Spectacular Cross Section of Contemporary Indian Art

Visions from India, the newest exhibition from the Pizzuti Collection, is a celebration of material abundance.