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Cultural Differences Between East and West, Reduced to Pictograms
When graphic designer Yang Liu moved from Beijing to Berlin at age 13, she found herself in culture shock.
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Tweet Your Art at NASA to Send It on an Asteroid Journey
This September, NASA is launching its Origins, Spectral Interpretation, Resource Identification, Security-Regolith Explorer spacecraft on a return journey to the Bennu asteroid, and is inviting the public to send space-inspired art along for the galactic ride.
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Previously Unpublished Pics of Picasso in His Studio
Rare, previously unpublished photographs of Pablo Picasso in his studio are now on view in Paris, offering intimate views of the artist in several of his French ateliers.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Ai Weiwei's new refugee-themed artworks and actions drew sharp criticism, Spain ruled that an alleged accomplice in the Knoedler Gallery affair can be extradited to the US, and the Metropolitan Museum defended its widely ridiculed new logo.
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What Did You Do on Your Sabbatical?
BOSTON — I was on sabbatical, so I had time. Time to create turned into time to think, and I couldn’t think about anything other than death.
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The First Museum Retrospective for a Video Game Artist Explores Why the Medium Matters
Whether a five-minute walk through one man's life or a maze that would take two millennia to explore, Jason Rohrer creates meaningful experiences that could only exist as games.
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Artists Covertly Scan Bust of Nefertiti and Release the Data for Free Online
Last October, two artists entered the Neues Museum in Berlin, where they clandestinely scanned the bust of Queen Nefertiti, the state museum's prized gem.
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Beat Nite 14: Downtown Brooklyn Art Spaces Stay Open Late Feb 26
Beat Nite Downtown will be held on Friday, February 26, 6–8pm and is presented in collaboration with BRIC. All participating spaces will be open 6–8pm.
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The Freeform Scribbles that Give Rise to Frank Gehry's Buildings
In an episode of the animated television series Arthur, Frank Gehry makes a surprise appearance, announcing that he's been hired to design a new art gallery in the fictitious Elwood City.
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Museums Make Space for Public Programs on Stoops and in Parks
Examples of this trend can be seen at several major New York art institutions. Three in particular are exemplary: BRIC, Queens Museum, and the Whitney Museum.
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Tracking Artists' Expeditions, from Glacier Surveys to a Search for Nixon's Missing Moon Rocks
Art is often an act of venturing into the unknown, of starting something without knowing the outcome.