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An Exhibition About Erotic Desire Suffers from Being Overly Sexy
How should a sex museum excite visitors while staying true to a sex-positive mission?
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A Soviet Artist’s Lifelong Search for a Universal Artistic Language
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ — There are at least two plausible narratives of Bakhchanyan’s trajectory: the uplifting story of an artist’s creative growth in spite of difficult circumstances, or the tragic tale of someone whose talent never reached its full potential due to the pressures of historical and poli
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From Michelangelo to Marden, Seven Fierce Fistfights from Art History
WASHINGTON, DC — In her ongoing series Le ‘NEW’ Monocle, Shana Lutker creates stage sets and performances based on the circumstances and philosophical undertones of fistfights instigated by Surrealists in Paris in the 1920s.
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The Intimate Visions of Martin Wong, Loisaida’s “Chino-Latino” Painter
Human Instamatic, the first museum retrospective of Martin Wong’s work since his death in 1999, is an insightful celebration of one of New York’s most underappreciated painters.
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122-Foot Dinosaur Makes Its Colossal Debut at the American Museum of Natural History
A cast of one of the largest dinosaurs to walk the Earth some 100 million years ago is being unveiled this week at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
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Communist China's Cheery Propaganda Posters
In the thousands of propaganda posters produced in China between the birth of the People's Republic in 1949 and the early 1980s, the beaming face of Chairman Mao Zedong watches over a surreal utopia.
Opinion
The Virtual-Reality Future Is Here
Many expect 2016 to be the year that virtual reality (VR) finally takes off.
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Rediscovered Glass Plate Photographs Show the Skies 120 Years Ago
Over 150 glass plate photographs of the moon, stars, and solar eclipses were recently rediscovered in the basement of the the Niels Bohr Institute (NBI) in Copenhagen.
Performance
A Festival Offers Experimental Theater that Audiences Can Relate To
Bertolt Brecht is rolling in his grave right now — but only to better see the provocative theater happening at The Public.
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Planting an Endless Fruit Orchard that Could Branch Around the World
What if the community garden was blown up to a national or even global scale, creating a huge, ever-growing network of edible flora tended by the public?
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In Response to Censorship, Artists Incite Users to Flood Facebook with Nudity
If you've ever experienced the frustration of having your Facebook account disabled after posting a nude work of art, mark January 14 as your new favorite holiday: Facebook Nudity Day.