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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, Jennifer Moon's show on designing revolution at Commonwealth and Council closes, Laurie Anderson performs a concert for dogs, you can help create a plastic float for the Rose Parade, and more.
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Seeing the World Through the Eyes of a Mantis Shrimp
CHICAGO — Quickly darting up a cement cast of artist Jack Schneider’s left arm, Cthulhu, a brightly colored mantis shrimp, snatches a clam before retreating below a rock in a 75-gallon, acrylic tank.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Brooklyn Art Shows
We never get tired of traveling around Brooklyn to see art. From the scrappy galleries of Bushwick to the emerging nonprofits of Red Hook, here are our picks for the best art in our beloved borough this year.
Announcement
SACI Florence Launches a Two-Year MFA in Communication Design
Studio Art Centers International is pleased to announce that students can apply now for Fall 2016 admission to SACI’s 2-year MFA in Communication Design program in Florence, Italy, accredited by NASAD.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NzQ0NzYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMTkyMjcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJj
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MoMA, Guggenheim, and New Museum Join IDNYC Program, Extending Perks for New Yorkers
New York City is extending its free government-issued ID card program through 2016, which will continue to provide residents with a number of city-wide benefits, including access to libraries, entertainment discounts, and year-long free memberships to dozens of its cultural institutions.
News
Guards at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Protest Changes They Fear Could Endanger Collection
BOSTON — Last weekend, gallery guards of the Museum of Fine Arts were standing outside the institution’s main entrance on Huntington Avenue holding signs, passing out leaflets, and singing as part of their ongoing protest.
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Searching for the Artist’s Intentions in Suspended, Sculptural Paintings
Someday the ascendant computers — having beaten us at chess, Jeopardy!, and giving directions — may share with the withering human spirit, numbed and narcotized by those same flickering screens, a moment of hideously dreamy half-consciousness.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, celebrate the launch of everyone's favorite (and the only?) sexy art handlers calendar, exchange your personal items for others' at the New Museum, gaze at photographs of queer desire, and more.
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Yoko Ono Asks Gallery Visitors to Repair the Impossibly Broken
Two Chelsea galleries are simultaneously hosting the same audience-activated Yoko Ono pieces, with collaborative mending of shattered ceramic, sketching of an infinite line, and contemplating river rocks.
News
New German Museum Focuses on Artists Persecuted by Nazis and Communists
Chances are you've never heard of Milly Steger.
Art
Dizzying Panoramas of Cathedral Interiors
Since 2011, Brooklyn-based photographer Richard Silver has photographed the ceilings of churches and cathedrals around the world, capturing the entireties of their vaulted architectures with sharp precision.
Interview
"Leave No Joke Un-Joked": An Interview with 'New Yorker' Cartoon Editor Bob Mankoff
Very Semi-Serious: A Partially Thorough Portrait of New Yorker Cartoonists, a new documentary by Leah Wolchok, offers a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of the magazine’s 90-year-old cartooning department.