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A Houseboat for Artistic Eco-experimentation Docks Among Yachts
SAG HARBOR, NY — Shortly after the 45-foot-long, angular vessel docked at Long Wharf in Sag Harbor, a mallard settled into a planter affixed to the bow and laid six eggs.
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The Internet’s Supposed Invisibility and the Fantasies It Fuels
BERLIN — If we could see the inner workings of the internet, the cabled intestines that run between our walls, under our cities, and across oceans, would we grasp what the internet really is?
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Only Student Left in USC Roski's MFA Program Drops Out
LOS ANGELES — It’s been a year since the entire incoming MFA class at USC’s Roski School of Art decided to drop out en masse, leaving the program with only one student this year, HaeAhn Kwon. In an open letter to Provost Michael Quick, Kwon announced today that she too would be leaving the program,
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Turkish police seized Muammar Gaddafi's $10-million dagger, "some feminists" attacked a mural of Bettie Page, and a pair of Spanish thieves amassed a trove of 10,000 artifacts.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a group show at Cantor Fine Art encourages you to touch the art, artists take over a downtown Art Deco building to consider what it means to be at home in LA, a new film on graffiti's origins in New York and Philadelphia screens, and more.
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Leaked Police Report Cites Michael Jackson's Art Books as Possible "Grooming" Tools
Yesterday, Radar Online published what appears to be a leaked version of an incomplete police report on Michael Jackson, and the document cites several contemporary art books apparently found at the singer's home during a 2003 raid.
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After Orlando, a Local Artist Works to Overcome the Numbness
ORLANDO — On the morning of June 12, my phone was blowing up.
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Artists in England Form a Union
England is now home to its first trade union for artists.
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Wolfgang Tillmans Focuses on Borders and Brexit in London
LONDON — Like many other Europeans living in the UK, I am not eligible to vote in Thursday's referendum that will decide whether Britain should leave or remain in the European Union.
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Perfume Bottles, Boats, and Shrunken Heads in a Museum of Everyday Objects
OXFORD, UK — During a recent visit to London, I took a day trip to Oxford for the sole purpose of seeing one museum: the Pitt Rivers Museum. I’d heard that viewing the collection was like entering a 19th-century Wunderkammer, and that it had an impressive collection of shrunken heads.
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Art that Exposes the Theater of Politics
CLEVELAND — In a drawing by cartoonist Edward Freska, the bald eagle that represents the United States on the country’s Great Seal is injured.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, a show by renowned Dutch-Californian conceptualist Bas Jan Ader lands in Chelsea, queer book arts get a show, Staten Island's Lumen festival returns, and more.