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Art as the Mother of Invention
No Prior Art at the Los Angeles Public Library shows off inventions and patents from unlikely creators and allows audiences to become inventors.
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A View From the Easel
“I’ve tried establishing routines, but I always end up reverting to a more spontaneous approach.”
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Author Jhumpa Lahiri Turns Down Noguchi Award Over Keffiyeh Ban
The Noguchi Museum in New York City terminated three workers who refused to comply with a dress code policy prohibiting the headscarves.
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Did Art History Predict the Rise of Moo Deng?
Just as memes of the viral hippo range from sweet to spooky, art history is rich with terrifying, adorable, and bizarre depictions of the amphibious creatures.
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Community-Curated Digital Art Show Comes to Queens
The Museum of the Moving Image invited the public to vote and select three artists making motion-based digital works.
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Robert Shetterly's Portraits Honor Peace Activists
“It’s about people with the courage and perseverance to insist that politicians and media tell the truth,” the artist told Hyperallergic.
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14 Repatriated Yemeni Antiquities Relocated to The Met
The stone and bronze sculptures, recently returned to Yemen from a private collection, are on loan to the museum for research and safekeeping.
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Lee Bul’s Synthetic Angels of History
Her sculptures for The Met’s facade commission look like they’ve always been there, Frankensteined in the bowels of the museum’s ethnographic collections.
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Dorothea Tanning Explored New Worlds Through Collage
Tanning’s practice shows that there is always another door to open, a new world to explore, and that art offers us another possible existence.
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Detroit Museum Celebrates 100 Years of James Baldwin
The Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History features the work of Baldwin-obsessed artist Sabrina Nelson on the centennial of the famed author’s birth.
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude's Iconic Miami Artwork Comes Full Circle
A collection documenting the creation of “Surrounded Islands” will go on view at the Nova Southeastern University Art Museum in Fort Lauderdale.
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Tiny Crocheted Hats for Cats Could Maybe Cure Chronic Pain
Researchers found that electrode-stuffed caps were “well-tolerated” by 10 of the 11 feline test subjects, opening up new avenues of pain research.