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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).
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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).
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Required Reading
This week, new public art is unveiled with New York's new Second Avenue subway, the end of humanism, the US media's problem with fascism, the gentrification cycle, and more.
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Required Reading
This week, new public art is unveiled with New York's new Second Avenue subway, the end of humanism, the US media's problem with fascism, the gentrification cycle, and more.
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Weekend Words: Fanatic
"I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart."