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Taxidermists Restore Napoléon's Beloved White Horse
Napoléon Bonaparte reportedly rode over 130 horses during his 14-year reign, but only one ended up as taxidermy: the Arabian stallion named le Vizir.
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Extending a Local Legacy, Bay Area Artists and Media Activists Fight for Social Justice
SAN FRANCISCO — Just around the corner from the newly expanded San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) — a veritable temple to wealth amassed in the form of contemporary artworks — the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts has mounted a very different kind of installation, one which monumentalizes act
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The Heart of the Great Plains in 1970s Black and White
WASHINGTON, DC — Kansas is characterized as much by its skies as its ground, with clouds sweeping over the fields and towns that dot the heart of the Great Plains.
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Amplifying the Voices of Women Photographers in the Middle East
WASHINGTON, DC — In the dominant narrative about the Middle East, the voices of women are among the most difficult to hear.
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Playing Operator on a Vintage Telephone Switchboard
Mike Lazer-Walker has repurposed a 1927 Western Electric 551-A switchboard into a hectic game that tasks players with quickly learning the obsolete job.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Banksy stencil rats were destroyed in Melbourne, an art dealer accused his former partners of selling him $30 million worth of fakes, and a philanthropist sued to get the millions she'd donated to a museum back.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, queer cinema godfather Bruce LaBruce gets a retrospective, the first Los Angeles Public Art Biennial kicks off, a longtime Echo Park art space holds an auction to raise money for relocation, and more.
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The Visual Propaganda of the Brexit Leave Campaign
MANCHESTER, UK — In the week following the United Kingdom voted to leave the European Union (the “Brexit”) on June 23, there was a 500% rise in hate crimes across the country.
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Pokémon Go Users Flock to Museums, Passing Picasso in Search of Pikachu
If you've visited a museum in the last few days and spotted larger-than-average groups of people wandering around and looking a tad lost, their eyes glued to their phones, you were likely witnessing the phenomenon of Pokémon Go.
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How Kerry James Marshall Rewrites Art History
CHICAGO — When he studied art history in the 1970s in Los Angeles, Kerry James Marshall was struck by the absence of black artists in the "canon."
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Your Concise Guide to the Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair 2016
You may think you want to go to the Rockaways this weekend, but you'll only end up sunburned.
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British MPs Propose Bill to Return the Elgin Marbles to Greece
With the 200th anniversary this week of the July 11, 1816 purchase through an Act of Parliament of the Parthenon Marbles for the British Museum, members of parliament are introducing a bill that would repatriate the ancient artifacts.