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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an abducted alien sculpture was recovered, a recovering meth addict returned a stolen Thomas Kinkade sculpture, and wild Winnipeggers smashed a public art installation.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, local chef Vinny Dotolo curates a show about the cross-section of food and art, a retrospective of work by Light and Space artist Peter Alexander opens at Parrasch Heijnen, Pieterspace and pehrspace hold a festival dedicated to influential musician Arthur Russell, and more.
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The Art of Drinking with a Friend
The first thing I did, after entering the gallery and introducing myself to the gallerist, was ask to use the bathroom.
Books
On the Origin of Emoji
A new book published by Prestel explores the history of emoji and its rise as a global communication phenomenon.
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From Stitched Symbols to Painted Shadows, Connecting Two Artists’ Surreal Sensibilities
Two multicolored rocks, placed side by side, cast long shadows that lie flat before bending at the walls they intersect, as shadows typically do. But that’s all that’s typical.
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Astrological Aesthetics: July 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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What Central Africa's War on Poaching Can Teach Us About Fighting the Plunder of Antiquities
Calls for greater law enforcement efforts to fight antiquities trafficking have been growing ever since ISIS' profiteering from the trade in looted antiquities became public knowledge in 2014. Two years later, concrete steps are finally being taken.
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Remixing the Resistant Voices of Black Musical Performance in the US
It’s easy to forget what an oddly heterogeneous and restless book is W.E.B Du Bois’s The Souls of Black Folk.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, three performers explore living in a black or brown body, Socrates Sculpture Park starts screening films outdoors, Brooklyn activists host a forum on gentrification and displacement, and more.
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The Art Deco Lighter, from Smoking's Era of Toxic Glamor
The Art Deco style of the 1920s and '30s pervaded design, from the Chrysler Building in Manhattan to the Grand Rex in Paris, but it wasn't always on such a large scale.
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Flowers of Evil and the Macabre Literary Imagination of Symbolism
Symbolist artists — including Aubrey Beardsley, Jean Delville, and Odilon Redon — were united less by style than by their shared intention of illustrating invisible aspects of human experience.
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W. E. B. Du Bois's Modernist Data Visualizations of Black Life
For the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, African American activist and sociologist W. E. B. Du Bois led the creation of over 60 charts, graphs, and maps that visualized data on the state of black life.