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Ding Dong, Death Calling: 1920s Tombstone Salesman Paintings
Ricco/Maresca Gallery in Manhattan's Chelsea neighborhood is showing a grid of 16 tombstone paintings created in 1929 by one E.B. Roberts in English, Indiana, for this itinerant trade.
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This week in art news: an anonymous artist blindfolded 100 public statues in Rio de Janeiro, Venice was declared Europe's most endangered heritage site, and the National Academy revealed plans to sell its buildings on Fifth Avenue.
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Singing the Struggles of Trans People in the American South
On the surface, the new musical Southern Comfort has all the trappings of a conventional family drama.
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Digging Through Victorian Trash for Bone Toothbrushes and Broken Dolls
"Rubbish doesn't lie," explained Tom Licence, a senior lecturer in history at England's University of East Anglia who is behind What the Victorians Threw Away.
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Fall with Bruegel's Rebel Angels in a Virtual Reality Experience
Thanks to a new virtual reality project launched this week by the Google Cultural Institute, you can now immerse yourself in one of Pieter Bruegel the Elder's most bizarre paintings and hang out with the peculiar creatures that cover its canvas.
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The Disorienting Power of Al Held's Black-and-White Paintings
In 1967, the angel of ambiguity rescued Al Held from the burly heaviness of his body and the formalist ideology of his thinking.
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Shakespeare's Only Handwritten Manuscript Contains a Message of Empathy for Migrants
Aside from a few signatures, only one example of William Shakespeare's handwriting survives, a speech from around 1600 that imagines Sir Thomas More addressing the rage of an anti-migrant crowd in England.
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Tracing Tradition in a Survey of Six Iranian Artists
Felix Gonzalez-Torres once made the argument that all art is political, even an artist’s choice to focus on the purely aesthetic.
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A New Hong Kong Museum Confronts the Difficult History of Chinese Contemporary Art (Part 1)
HONG KONG — The M+ Sigg Collection, thought to be the most thorough and important collection of contemporary Chinese art in the world, consists of 1,510 art objects produced by 375 artists spanning 1974 to 2010.
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Connecting with Humanity in the Paris Catacombs
PARIS — We rarely experience the oceanic sensation of our bodies as continuous and equal with all other humans.
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Inside Florida's Swamp Buggy Racing Subculture
The distinctly Floridian tradition of swamp buggy racing is like a messier version of NASCAR.