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A private museum in Moscow has shut down its retrospective of the work of US photographer Jock Sturges after state officials called his images of nude girls “propaganda of pedophilia," a protester threw urine at his pictures, and officers in camouflage stormed the space, RT reported.
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"Like pinball and computer games, it’s hard to get people to take ghost trains seriously, but they aren’t just important, they are disappearing," Joel Zika, creator of the Dark Ride Project, told Hyperallergic.
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WASHINGTON, DC — After 100 years of lobbying, 10 years of planning, and almost 5 years of construction, the newest member of the Smithsonian family is finally here.
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Like gas stations or a fast-food chain restaurant, love motels are common fixtures of the Brazilian landscape. And like McDonald's golden arches, the signs on their facades often light up the surrounding block in vivid neon, signaling with little discretion that pleasure awaits just behind locked do
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The British elite were racing fanatics in the 18th century, and there was no greater honor for a victorious horse than having its portrait painted by George Stubbs.
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I’m looking at photographs of the Black Panthers: men in formation wearing black leather jackets, with buttons featuring Huey P. Newton’s image fixed to their lapels.
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ST. LOUIS — What does accountability look like in a world where no one is accountable?
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With each foot of sea level rise, four lines of cherry trees at the Climate Chronograph die.
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Lately, I've convinced myself that to make good art I need to get into a rhythm.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — "The work is the death mask of its conception," Walter Benjamin wrote about writing technique in his 1928 collection of essays One-Way Street.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — The historic collection of glass flowers at the Harvard Museum of Natural History recently reopened after its first comprehensive renovation.
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Sir Alfred Munnings, president of the prestigious Royal Academy of Arts in the 1940s, was famous for his masterful paintings of racehorses.