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This week, create your own fanzine, check out presidential campaign ephemera at the New-York Historical Society, journey to the Colombian Amazon at Socrates Sculpture Park's summer screening series, and more.
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Explore the Harvard Art Museums’ Massive Bauhaus Collection Online
Home to one of the first and largest collections devoted to the Bauhaus, Harvard Art Museums now has a new, online resource that makes it easier to navigate these holdings.
Art
Acts of Cruelty Captured by Citizens
New Documents at the Bronx Documentary Center is not necessarily the most conceptually elaborate exhibition, or the most aesthetically alluring, but it is the one show I've seen this year that makes crucial sense of our contemporary compulsion to document sociopolitical upheavals and state-sponsored
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Retro Refrigerators as Totems to Our Food Storage Habits
I'd expected the exhibition of 45, wood-paneled mini-fridges at the Lower East Side's Denny Gallery to offer a literally cool breather from this sweltering summer, but none of them were running.
Opinion
End of the Line for Detroit's Iconic Outdoor Art Installation, the Heidelberg Project
DETROIT — It is difficult for a young artist to think about her legacy.
Art
The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City
A manhole cover is generally deemed successful if its round shape keeps pedestrians from plummeting into the earth, and communicates the subterranean systems below through its design.
Announcement
The Paseo 2016 Fills the Streets of the Taos Historic District with Art in September
In contrast to the “oldest in America” moniker of Taos Pueblo, the Town of Taos, and the Taos Art Colony, one of the newest outdoor art festivals in the country prepares to welcome 25 experimental artists to Taos, New Mexico.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6ODkxNTYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjo0
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The Pulsing Patterns of Traditional North African Jewelry
PARIS — Wearable Treasures: Maghreb Jewelry and Ornaments is a pointed consideration of the psychic powers interlaced throughout North African women’s jewelry.
Comics
Drawing Portraits at the Local Arts Festival
What do they see or experience exactly?
Art
Slowly Dancing to an Exhibition About Love
MINNEAPOLIS — A kind of dance happens as you walk through Lee Kit’s exhibition at the Walker Art Center, appropriately titled Hold your breath, dance slowly.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, goodbye, Gawker, Zombie Urbanism, Olympic medals for art, criticizing McMansions, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Evaporate
"If you slid Pluto to where Earth is right now, heat from the sun would evaporate that ice, and it would grow a tail. Now that's no kind of behavior for a planet."