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This week, stare at the sun through an artist's custom-made masks, enjoy a neoclassical opera based on a series of 18th-century paintings, revisit the 1972 presidential conventions in two DIY documentaries, and more.
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US Senator Introduces Bill to Stop Overseas Sales of Stolen Indigenous Objects
To better protect sacred indigenous objects from being sold in international markets, Senator Martin Heinrich has introduced the Safeguard Tribal Objects of Patrimony (STOP) Act with support from politicians of both parties as well as tribal leaders.
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Browsing the Pages of an Avant-Garde, Weimar-Era Magazine
Der Sturm, the title of the arts magazine that served as the mouthpiece for German Expressionism during the Weimar Republic, translates to “the storm.”
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UNESCO Adds 17 Le Corbusier Buildings to World Heritage List
UNESCO announced Sunday that 17 of Le Corbusier's 20th-century buildings will be added to its World Heritage List.
Performance
To Hades and Back, with a Wailing Jazz Score
Hadestown combines and retells two classical myths — that of Orpheus and Eurydice, and that of Persephone — through a sizzling New Orleans jazz score by Anaïs Mitchell.
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Before Protesting at the Republican National Convention, Learn to Protect Your Phone
CLEVELAND — If you’re a smartphone-wielding protestor in Cleveland this week, you might want to make a pit stop at SPACES on your way downtown to the Republican National Convention.
News
What Will Become of the World's Biggest Picnic Basket?
It's no picnic being the world's biggest basket.
Art
Hyperallergic and Smack Mellon Present "Art and Propaganda" on July 27, 7pm
What differentiates propaganda from art? Join Hyperallergic and Smack Mellon on Wednesday, July 27, at 7pm for a conversation.
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6 Male Artists Making Inspiring Feminist Work
We all know about the terrible gender disparity in the art world. As ladies, we live with systemic sexism on a daily basis.
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An Artist Colors Over Our September 11 Wounds
The Life of Forms exhibition, now on view at Mary Boone gallery is a relatively standard summer show smorgasbord, but one artist who stands out to me is Doug Ashford.
Announcement
Norte Maar Presents 'Ways and Means: A New Look at Process and Materials in Art'
Norte Maar is pleased to return to 1285 Avenue of the Americas Gallery with a major exhibition titled Ways and Means: a new look at process and materials in art. Curated by Jason Andrew, Ways and Means offers an eclectic group of twenty-five artists who through a combination of their process and mat
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Rachel Whiteread's Concrete Cabin Awaits Discovery in the Governors Island Hills
British artist Rachel Whiteread and curator Tom Eccles discussed both the Unabomber and Henry David Thoreau's Walden in considering the form and isolation of the American cabin.