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Assert Your 21st Amendment Freedom by Transcribing Wine Label History
More than 5,000 wine labels at the University of California, Davis, chronicle the industry from the 1800s to the 1950s, before and after Prohibition in the United States.
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The Best Art Books to Read for Free on the NYPL's New eBook App
The New York Public Library just released a iPhone and Android app that lets anyone with a library card freely download any of the 300,000 eBooks in its collection.
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A Hands-On Experience with Harry Bertoia's Sonic Sculptures
After his death in 1978, Harry Bertoia was interred beneath one of his most impressive sonic works: a 2,000-pound, 10-foot-in-diameter silicon bronze gong.
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Performances that Probe the Potential of Being
When I was in graduate school, one of the ideas favored by feminist and queer scholars and students of continental philosophy was the notion of "becoming," as conveyed by Gilles Deleuze.
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Search for Pies, Patterned Sweaters, and Anything Else with Google's Updated Art App
Since it launched the Google Art Project five years ago, Google's been pouring serious money and time into efforts to make art and culture accessible to everyone (who has the internet and appropriate devices, of course), from digitizing collections to offering virtual tours of museums.
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"He Wanted to Give Her This Gift of Flesh": Recipient of van Gogh's Ear Identified
Shortly before Christmas, 1888, as the story goes, while living in Arles, France, and suffering from a deep depression, Vincent van Gogh sliced off part of his left ear with a razor blade, wrapped the severed ear in cloth, walked to a nearby brothel, and handed it to a woman working there.
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Why Teach Business to Artists?
To anyone who receives news alerts, the world might seem to have fallen apart in a wave of terrorist attacks, failed coups, wrongful killings, police assassinations, and accidental withdrawals from European coalitions, to name a few.
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In Response to the RNC, Artists and Activists Go Wall Out Against Trump
In the wake of Donald J. Trump's official coronation as the Republican presidential nominee for 2016, the art of wall building is reaching new heights.
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Comics that Bend and Borrow from Reality
Sean Karemaker dispenses with the rigid panel grids and other conventions that most people commonly associate with comics for The Ghosts We Know from Conundrum Press.
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Figurative Painting That’s Emphatically Human
New York City galleries are raining down a smattering of group shows that showcase figurative painting.
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A History of Photography in Which the Camera Is Absent
A new book takes is a broader, global look at cameraless photography.
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A Camera That Only Shows You Photos Taken by Strangers
Some cameras will upload the photographs you snap directly to the internet; this one will do the opposite, filling its monitor with an image sourced from the web after you press its shutter.