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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: an art analysis assignment gets a teacher suspended, new reality TV show allegedly glorifies 'grave-robbing,' and Justin Bieber climbs a Mayan ruin and pulls his pants down.
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Art
16th-Century Visions of the Ruins of Religious Wars
As the 16th-century religious wars raged around Europe, Dutch artist Maarten van Heemskerck collaborated with printmaker Philip Galle on a series of 22 engravings featuring Old Testament destruction.
Art
Early-20th-Century Drawings of Fanciful Flying Machines
Prussian immigrant Charles A.A. Dellschau spent most of his life in Houston working as a butcher; when he retired in 1899 at the age of 68, he turned his attention skywards and devoted himself to an entirely different endeavor: designing airships and charting the development of flight.
Art
ArtRx NYC
This week there's even more good stuff to do in NYC than usual, if that's possible. Learn about some histories of "the future," think about taking buildings down, explore the relationship between the occult and art, visit the Black Comic Book Festival, and more.
Art
Germany’s Leading Art Prize Sets a Museum in Motion
BERLIN — The prestigious Preis der Nationalgalerie, considered the German equivalent of the Turner Prize, was inaugurated in 2000 and recognizes artists under the age of 40 who live and work in Germany, regardless of nationality.
Art
Fragile Monuments to the Jar’s Ancient Form
BOSTON — What’s so interesting about Nicole Cherubini’s sculptural work might simply be just how impossible it is to (mentally) house it anywhere specifically.
Announcement
Call for Applications: PAFA's Low-Residency MFA
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Performance
Hearing a Poignant Eulogy in David Bowie's First Musical
The musical Lazarus, currently nearing the end of a sold-out run at the New York Theatre Workshop, is the closest we'll get to a final David Bowie performance.
In Brief
David Bowie's "Lazarus" Video Is a Haunting Farewell
“Look up here, I’m in heaven/I’ve got scars that can’t be seen," sings a frail, blindfolded David Bowie from a hospital bed in his video for "Lazarus," released four days before his death on January 10.
Performance
An Opera About Plucking and Pimping Fallen Angels
The opera Angel's Bone, having its world premiere at the Prototype festival, opens with a married woman fantasizing about telling her husband that she doesn’t love him.
Art
Astrological Aesthetics: January 2016 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Embark on a New Creative Journey at Parsons
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