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Have Hokusai, Will Travel: Japan's New Passports Feature Ukiyo-E Master's Prints
Japanese citizens are set to receive new passports, and they will salute Katsushika Hokusai, the renowned ukiyo-e printmaker and painter.
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Art
A History of Detroit Through Its Bricks
DETROIT — Object-oriented ontology suggests that inanimate objects have lives and wider spheres of experience than the ways in which they relate to humans.
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Kids Smash Art at Glass Museum While Adults Stand by Filming
Just when you'd thought you'd seen it all when it comes to art-breaking mishaps (selfie seekers, I'm looking at you), along comes this incredible footage from China of two boys fracturing a sculpture in the Shanghai Museum of Glass.
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The Lights of Paris, Seen Through the Eyes of the Impressionists and Their Contemporaries
Bruce Museum's 'Electric Paris' features approximately fifty paintings, photographs, and drawings that explore the influence of artificial lighting on the Impressionists and their contemporaries. Expect a mix of European and American masters: Edgar Degas and Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and Hen
Art
The Photographers of 1870s London Who Documented Their Disappearing City
The idea of capturing something in photography before it disappears dates back almost to the dawn of the medium.
Art
A Small, Independent Art School Flourishes in Cambodia
SIEM REAP, Cambodia — Over four million people visited Cambodia in 2014, many of whom came to see Angkor Wat, the country’s most popular tourist destination.
Art
A Monumental Critique of Empire, from Napoleonic to Corporate Times
PARIS — Scattered throughout the cavernous nave of the Grand Palais are mountains of shipping containers.
Comics
How I Feel About Making Art About Myself
In "real" life I hate feeling vulnerable.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, US architecture's odd couple, Roberta Smith about the new SFMOMA, Taibbi on Trump, censorship in Israel, multi-generational affluence in Florence, animals in art project, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Social
"The nice thing about quotes is that they give us a nodding acquaintance with the originator, which is often socially impressive."
Books
Reader’s Diary: Lorraine Lupo's 'By Way Of'
Cards on the table: I prefer short poems to long ones, slender bodies of work to massive ones. So naturally, I consider the best way to read poetry is not in a book, but in a chapbook.
Art
Have We Been Misreading Jasper Johns All Along? Part Two
I want to focus on Jasper Johns’s three recent monotypes based on a Vietnam-era photograph of an emotionally shattered soldier, which are included in Jasper Johns: Monotypes at Matthew Marks.