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Confronting Museumgoers with Gun Violence in the US
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — To say that gun violence is an affliction of American society is a radical understatement, whether you go by the statistics or the frequency of mass shooting incidents.
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A Video Game That Tailors Its Terrors to Your Anxiety
"Go to your happy place," the game attendant told me as the digital kitchen on my screen filled with milk and I was drowning.
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Creative Exchange Mobilizes Artists to Solve Local Challenges with Stories and Free Toolkits
Creative Exchange celebrates artists and their creative power to shape communities, reimagine what is possible and move social justice forward with a new collection of features and stories, Field Notes from Creative Exchange.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTE2OTUxLCJhdCI6MjAsImJ0IjowLCJjbSI6
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Mapping Gentrification and Urban Resistance in Istanbul
ROME — "Urbanization has always been a class phenomenon of some sort," David Harvey writes in Rebel Cities.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, see a forgotten masterpiece of Japanese animation, spot murals on a bike ride through East LA, catch influential Mexican artist Pedro Friedeberg's exhibition before it closes, and more.
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Court Rules Artist May Print Models of Her Own Vagina but Can’t Share Data
Over the past two years, Japanese artist Megumi Igarashi has faced charges for distributing data that could be used to make 3D models of her vagina and for creating a yellow, yonic kayak, as well as small vagina-shaped plaster figurines, that she displayed in a Tokyo sex shop.
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In ‘Transparent,’ the Dangers of Apathy in Weimar Germany’s Queer Culture
They’re on top of the world: partying, popular, queer kids with everything going for them. This is not 1960s San Francisco or 1980s New York or today’s internet communities: it’s 1933 in Weimar Berlin.
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Gleaming Visions of Space from an Artist–Cum–Astronaut in Training
Michael Najjar has his sights set on being the first civilian artist to travel to space.
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A New Database Will Document the Burial Sites of US Slaves
A new project is giving slave burial grounds in the United States something they've long been deprived of: visibility.
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The Woman Who Found Abstraction Before the Modernists
LONDON — The first thought that struck me about the Serpentine Gallery’s exhibition of Swedish artist Hilma af Klint, Painting the Unseen, was: Thank goodness — finally a solo show starring a female artist!
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Thirty Years On, Colab Members Assess Their Successes and Failures
Last month, members of Colab gathered at Printed Matter for the opening of a new iteration of the A. More Store, the collective’s pop-up exhibit of cheap multiples. The display coincides with the publication of A Book About Colab (and Related Activities) (2015), a sumptuous collection of archival im
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ArtRx NYC
This week, check out two film festivals — one devoted to contemporary African movies, the other to experimental, found-footage films — or consider art in unusual places — like Green-Wood Cemetery, the storefronts of Bay Ridge, and a patch of land off the BQE.