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Converting Air Pollution into Inks and Pigments for Artists
To combat growing levels of air pollution worldwide, a technology and design team is converting airborne pollutants into consumer safe inks and paints.
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LED Street Art Lights Up a Dark, Dodgy Alley in Philadelphia
Percy Street in South Philadelphia is an abnormality in the city's orderly grid, curving between South 9th Street and Reed Street, its seclusion making it a haven for littering and more illicit activities.
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Hieronymus Bosch’s Worlds that Could Have Been
MADRID — Commemorating the fifth centenary of the death of Hieronymus Bosch, Madrid's El Museo del Prado has arranged an exhibition that, according to its catalogue, displays "the greatest number of Bosch’s works ever to be assembled."
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A $2.5 Million Statue Casts a Long Shadow on the Bronx Museum’s Cuban Initiatives
Sometime early next year, a monumental sculpture of the Cuban writer and national hero José Martí is expected to rise on Havana's busy Paseo del Prado.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, two shows focus on the legendary print house Gemini G.E.L., Mira Schor unveils the second half of her epic "War Frieze," an international design survey comes to Laguna Beach, and more.
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An Artist Reanimates the Sounds and Signs of the Persian Gulf War
SAN FRANCISCO — Memory has always fascinated Hayv Kahraman, and she looks for ways to explore it in her art.
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Journeying Beyond Western Time in Contemporary Aboriginal Australian Art
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — In 1971, at a remote government settlement in Australia’s Northern Territory called Papunya, a group of elderly Aboriginal men painted designs from ancestral creation stories onto a school wall in cheap, bright acrylics.
Opinion
Black Women Artists Bear Witness in Red
First you see red. Red halts the traffic. An undulant corpus of red women crosses the Bowery and flows toward the New Museum, breaks into an arc and then a circle
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NY Public Library Exhibits Its Recent Social Justice Zine Acquisitions
Since the late 19th century, the New York Public Library (NYPL) has collected alternative publications, the institution's acquisitions mirroring publishing movements over the following decades.
Announcement
BRIC Presents 'Material Cultures' Textile Exhibition This Fall
Materials Cultures is a group exhibition featuring the work of eight contemporary visual artists who engage with and respond to essential elements of textile arts: weaving, pattern, draping, embellishing, and wearing.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MzUyNTIsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0MzQ2Nzks
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Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping
Next time you’re walking through the East Village, take a moment to look up at the skies over Tompkins Square Park. You might just spot Anton van Dalen’s flock of snow-white pigeons. The artist, who first learned to rear the birds at the age of twelve, is one of the few remaining pigeon keepers in L
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ArtRx NYC: Fall Guide 2016
The autumnal art season is upon us, and we're bringing you Hyperallergic’s New York Art Guide for fall 2016.