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The Unlikely Story of How Nitrate Film Endures
The George Eastman Museum in Rochester, New York is gearing up for a festival that celebrates nitrate film, which once caused some major fires in movie theaters.
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This week in art news: Swiss authorities seized antiquities looted from Palmyra, dozens of artists were evicted from a Baltimore studio building, and the mayor of the Greek island of Milos demanded the Louvre return the Venus de Milo.
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“Artists, Like Actors, Can’t Develop in Public”: A Conversation with Mega-collector Don Rubell
"I have a flawed gene. I have a collector's gene."
Interview
While Held by US Immigration, an Artist Sketches His Fellow Detainees
Artist José Alvarez (D.O.P.A.) talks about the 30 portraits he drew while detained at the Krome Detention Center in Miami. The drawings, accompanied by each subject's story, are on view at the Boca Raton Museum of Art.
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A Computer-Generated Coliseum that Will Disintegrate for 1,000 Years
Sitting in the 20-meter-ceilinged space of the Boiler Room watching this infinite building disintegrate infinitely slowly, you cannot help but feel infinitely tiny.
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Yale Highlights an Archive of African-American Culture on Its 75th Anniversary
The university is marking 75 years of its James Weldon Johnson Collection, which celebrates the man and his immense legacy.
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The Passionate Art of LGBTQ Prisoners in the US
In this politically polarized moment, when the notion of compassion itself seems to be on trial, exhibitions like this one have become ever more urgent.
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An Online Exhibition Explores the Cultural Legacy of Prohibition
The Mob Museum in Las Vegas explores the jazz, flappers, and mob violence of America's Prohibition era in a new online exhibition.
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Thousands of Minor White’s Photographs Go Online
Thousands of prints by the American photographer and founding editor of Aperture magazine have been digitized and uploaded to a website launched by Princeton University Art Museum.
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Boston University's MFA in Graphic Design Now Accepting Applications
With brand new facilities in the heart of Boston, the MFA Graphic Design program at Boston University is a conceptually focused, two-year studio-based program that combines studio practice, design research and professional development.
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Measuring Life by the Stars in Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores widespread modes of timekeeping in the Greco-Roman world and their continued influence today.
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Stepping into an Uncanny Reconstruction of a Detroit Apartment
The real apartment could not have provided a sharper contrast to the silent, windowless, blacked-over surfaces of the dark-side doppelgänger Anders Ruhwald has created in Cleveland.