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Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.
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Navigating the Recent Wave of Renegade Seafaring in Art
WATER MILL, NY — On the same day the Apollo 11 Lunar Module touched down on the Moon, an art collective in Japan was rowing on a giant white arrow down the rivers between Kyoto and Osaka.
Art
Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
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Making Visible the Haunting Absences of Latin America’s Violent History
It has become a common refrain to say we've become desensitized to images of war, bloodshed, and poverty.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: a new report suggested that Bavaria’s State Paintings Collections sold off Nazi loot after World War II, satellite imagery confirmed that ISIS destroyed the Temple of Nabu in Nimrud, and Kanye West released a new music video inspired by the work of artist Vincent Desiderio.
Books
Sick of Being Human, a Designer Transformed Himself into a Goat
What if you could escape the pains of daily existence by transforming into a goat?
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A Luminescent Installation Responds to Twitter Users’ Mood Swings
The exhibition proposes two core questions: Is this type of city compatible with the needs of its inhabitants, and is this kind of anonymous and automated policing comparable to public administration and democratic politics?
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To Cite or to Steal? When a Scholarly Project Turns Up in a Gallery
It's early enough in my career that I still get a thrill whenever I see my work shared online.
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Shooting Down the Purely Aesthetic Aspirations of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s Piers
SULZANO, Italy — I decided to make the journey from my home in Rome to Sulzano in northern Italy to judge the merits and pitfalls of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’s “Floating Piers” — an almost two-mile long floating walkway situated on Lake Iseo — for myself.
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Vladimir Nabokov's Scientific Butterfly Illustrations
At the end of Vladimir Nabokov's poem "Pale Fire," he describes how "White butterflies turn lavender as they / Pass through its shade where gently seems to sway / The phantom of my little daughter's swing."