Art
Pigeons Recruited to Measure the Invisible Toxicity of London's Air
Pigeons outfitted with lightweight backpacks soared over London from March 14 to 16, collecting air quality data across the city that was shared via Twitter.
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Columbia Students Object to Installation of Henry Moore “Monstrosity"
In what is apparently not an April Fools joke, a group of Columbia University students is protesting the installation of a Henry Moore sculpture on campus.
Art
The Inca Rope Bridge That's Woven Across a River Each Year
WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back at least five centuries to the Inca Empire.
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Fighting the Banality of Moderates: An Artist’s Vision for a Peaceful Turkey
When violence is celebrated, evil consumes good and insurgency turns into a kind of distortion of civilization. We have to find a way to break this vicious cycle.
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Starchitect Zaha Hadid Dead at 65
Zaha Hadid, the celebrated Iraqi-British architect, has died of a heart attack at a Miami hospital, the BBC first reported.
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Archaeologists Find 3,400-Year-Old Necropolis in Egypt
Swedish archaeologists have discovered a 3,400-year-old necropolis in Egypt that dates to the New Kingdom and holds dozens of tombs containing remnants of ancient artifacts.
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South African Artist Nails It with Sculptures Made from Thousands of Press-Ons
These works suggest the uneasy relationship between sex, power, and desire that is brought to the surface by performed femininity.
Art
Aboriginal Women in Australia Celebrate Their Football Heroes with Pottery
MELBOURNE — The desert of Central Australia might seem like an unlikely place to find an art cooperative making potent and beautiful pottery.
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An Artist's Anthem
I was born to create ...
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The Art of Narcissists Earns More at Auction, Researchers Claim
A new study confirms your suspicions that in the art world, delusional self-regard pays off: researchers found that work by narcissistic artists is likely to sell for more money at auction than work by their humbler counterparts.
Books
Bright Illustrations Interpret Arabic Tongue Twisters
A witty composition of lively geometrical shapes that turn the Arabic alphabet into a story-like puzzle, Tongue Twister was awarded for its “original attempt to give visual form to tongue twisters and the difficulty of pronouncing certain words very fast."
Art
Ghana's Golden Age of Hand-Painted Kung Fu Movie Posters
In the 1980s and ‘90s, a vibrant new art form proliferated in Ghana: Kung Fu movie posters painted by self-taught artists on recycled flour sacks.