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Satellite Images Confirm the Destruction of Iraq's Oldest Christian Monastery by ISIS
Conflict in Iraq has reduced yet another historic site to nothing more than piles of stone, with the blow delivered once more by ISIS.
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Opinion
A Few Things You Won't Learn from Stephen Colbert's Interview with the Guerrilla Girls
Gender inequality in the art world is still a thing, and it still needs to go away.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Los Angeles Poverty Department mounts a retrospective at the Armory in Pasadena, Omar Pimienta offers free citizenship at the Museum of Latin American Art, the longest running photo fair on the West Coast celebrates its 25th anniversary, and more.
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Mementoes of Grief Go to Auction from the US's Only Museum for Mourning Art
Art related to death in the United States evolved from European influences in the colonial era to a distinct language of mourning, guided by widespread grieving for public figures like the country's presidents.
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The Asia Pacific Triennial Chooses the Margins as a Radical Space
BRISBANE, Australia — Suppressed voices, marginalized histories, and public spaces take center stage at the 8th Asia Pacific Triennial.
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The Delicate and Daring Works of a Forgotten 17th-Century Japanese Painter
WASHINGTON, DC — Over the course of his career in the 17th century, the Japanese painter Tawaraya Sōtatsu produced a large body of intricate and decorative works on paper.
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The Ghosts, Mermaids, and Beautiful Rats of Japan's Tiny Netsuke Carvings
Miniature meditating skeletons, snarling cats, eerie ghosts, and gods of fortune carved in ivory, wood, and horn adorned the sashes of Japanese men throughout the Edo period.
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A Portrait of a Chinese Ghost Town on the Verge of New Life
The district of Kangbashi in Inner Mongolia, China, is famous for its emptiness.
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The Hand-Mounted Photographs that Illustrated 19th-Century Books
Before the widespread use of photomechanical printing processes to illustrate books, original, hand-mounted photographs largely embellished the pages of printed matter.
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A New App Attempts to See for the Blind
What if your smartphone could see for you, the same way it tells time, takes pictures, crushes candy, and occasionally calls people for you?
Art
From Challenging Kant to Elevating Moss, an Artist Upends Hierarchies
MINNEAPOLIS — With just four shapes made out of crude line drawings, Andrea Büttner captures the essence of shame.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a performance artist faces charges for pooping on the Israeli flag, Le Corbusier chairs are stolen in India, and a graffiti artist sues singer Kiesza for featuring his murals in a music video.