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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, European Gallery Sprüth Magers opens an LA outpost, Emma Sulkowicz gets her first solo show at Coagula, it's the last chance to see Sandow Birk's American Qur'an at the Orange County Museum of Art, and more.
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A Qur'an Transcribed by Hand Presents Parables of Contemporary American Life
NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. — In the midst of growing Islamophobia in the US, artist Sandow Birk embarked on a nine-year project to transcribe and illustrate the entire Qur’an by hand.
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Paris's Art Models Protest for Job Security and Better Wages
PARIS — On Saturday afternoon, people trickled across the large plaza in front of the Hôtel de Ville.
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Workers at B&H Photo’s Manhattan Warehouse Vote to Unionize
This morning, workers in the basement warehouse of B&H Photo Video's flagship store in Manhattan voted 46–14 to unionize, hoping to give themselves a voice in a work environment that many have described as hazardous and abusive.
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In a Sprawling Collaboration, an Artist and Her Subject Craft His Identity
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — Him reveals Liz Cohen’s interest in identity, auto-determination, and the lengths to which one must go to find the truest expression of self.
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A Crash Course in Playing Kalup Linzy’s Characters, Led by the Artist
MIAMI — In Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, The Hero’s Journey, the heroes tend to follow a basic narrative arc.
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Boston Builds an Artist-in-Residence Program, Bringing Creativity to City Hall
BOSTON — It's snowing hard outside, and it's a Saturday, but the second-floor hallway of the city's newest municipal building — its school department headquarters — is filled with artists and bureaucrats.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, hear about photographing Louise Bourgeois, watch The Big Sleep, The Long Goodbye, and The Big Lebowski simultaneously, go art-hopping around Downtown Brooklyn, watch some witchy films, and more.
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You’ve Got Email (Art)
A new web-based project will slide art directly into your inbox once a month, with each iteration representing a digital solo show by a different artist for your own private viewing.
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Glimpsing Gowanus in a Loft-Sized Camera Obscura
In the 19th century, a seaside resort vacation wasn't complete until you visited the local camera obscura and marveled at the surrounding beach and ocean projected through a pinhole.
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The Avant-Garde Films of a Thief of Light and Shadow
Thieves tend to be remembered fondly, grandly, or at least without the usual sort of scorn that characterizes criminality.
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Attacks on Artistic Freedom Almost Doubled Worldwide in 2015, Report Says
ISIS's November 13 massacre at an Eagles of Death Metal concert in Paris’ Bataclan theater, which left 89 people dead and 99 more critically injured, was part of one of the worst terrorist attacks in French history.