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The Legacy of the Lost Jade Room at the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Sometime in the mid-20th century, one of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's most ornate galleries disappeared.
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Understanding an Empire Through the Lives of Its Soldiers
DETROIT — The Sick Man of Europe, a project by artist Dor Guez, demonstrates the fundamental tension between individual and society.
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Hypnotic GIFs of Victorian Optical Toys
Long before the time of Disney and Pixar, artists made images move using a variety of -scopes and -tropes.
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Alexis Rockman Captures Long Island's Flora and Fauna in Dirty Field Drawings
Alexis Rockman is probably known best for his large-scale, vividly colored paintings that encapsulate the threatened state of the natural world, often integrating futuristic imagery.
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ArtRx NYC
You want to know how to finish off 2015 right? Our suggestions include a concert for peace, an experimental sound quilt, a warehouse extravaganza, fireworks in Grand Army Plaza, and maybe chill out in the new year with a silent Chaplin film program.
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We Ask Some Art World Luminaries to Pick the Best & Worst of 2015
To quote Charles Dickens, "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times," but there's no point in generalizations so we decided to ask some key cultural people we respect what they specifically loved and hated about the year that was.
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Art that Acknowledges Death Without Showing the Body
Every autumn in New York, leaves fall, grass turns brittle, and people are reminded of death.
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Lighting a Match for Every Day of the Syrian Uprising
Pitched on the grounds of the historic Trinity Church in Manhattan, sandwiched between the parish building and cemetery, are two tents that house on their floors an arrangement of used matchsticks surrounding tents of another kind: discarded books and assorted packagings — cut up, folded, and carefu
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A Subversive 19th-Century Political Print Destroyed by the French Government
Not far from today's Centre Pompidou in Paris, women, children, and the elderly were massacred on April 14, 1834, when French troops under the July Monarchy stormed a worker's building on the Rue Transnonain searching for a sniper.
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Looking Back at 10 Years of Art Made from Printed Books
Donna Seager’s book collection doesn’t look like most people’s.
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A Video Artist's Enigmatic Portraits from 1980s New York and Mexico City
MEXICO CITY — Ricardo Nicolayevsky, one of the most prolific Mexican video artists and experimental filmmakers working today, began his career in the early 1980s in Mexico City and New York City.
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Ellsworth Kelly, Who Relentlessly Pushed the Boundaries of Abstraction, Dead at 92
Ellsworth Kelly, one of the most strident pioneers of abstraction and minimalism in the United States from the 1950s onward, has died at age 92.