Art
The Elegant Architecture of Airport Control Towers
Beginning in 2006, Smithsonian photographer Carolyn Russo journeyed through 23 countries, documenting the one structure nearly every traveler arriving by air sees: the airport tower.
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Inside David Lynch’s Dream Worlds
David Lynch has been a stranger to the director’s chair for almost a decade now — since 2006’s Inland Empire, to be exact.
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Circuses, Rallies, and Soldiers: Photographs of Early-20th-Century American Clans
In over 100 vintage photographs, Hunt’s Three Ring Circus: American Groups Before 1950 explores how individuals in the early 20th century assembled into groups, linked together by experiences as official as military service or loose as a shared appreciation for the accordion.
Art
Best of 2015: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World
It's hard enough compiling best-of lists for single cities — try the world.
Art
Amid Political Turbulence in Istanbul, Artists Seek Grace
ISTANBUL — The group exhibition sets out to investigate whether it is possible to construct a new world from within this one, beyond the constraints of political history.
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Inside New York's Most Beautiful Subway Station, Abandoned Since 1945
The most beautiful subway station in New York City is locked, inaccessible since the last passengers stepped off its platform on December 31, 1945.
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Feds Arrest Martin Shkreli, Buyer of $2 Million Wu-Tang Clan Album
Martin Shkreli didn’t have long to enjoy his new $2 million Wu-Tang Clan album — if he ever listened to it at all.
Art
Code-Based Artworks that Reinvent Themselves Every Day
Nine artists are putting a digital twist on instruction-based art, removing the aspect of in-person engagement fundamental to such works by Marcel Duchamp to Yoko Ono.
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10 Arty Calendars to Chronicle 2016
A new year is about to dawn. Have you considered the calendar which will guide you through the great unknown that awaits in the next 12 months?
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The Living Metal Scraps and Dancing Dolls of the Quay Brothers
When you watch a film by Stephen and Timothy Quay, those twin princes of darkness, you enter a shadow world.
In Brief
No Money for Portrait Artists in Congress's New Spending Package
Congress will vote on a new tax and spending bill Friday, and in case you wondered, not a dime of the $1.14 trillion dollar package will go to oil portraits.
Art
A Washington, DC, Nonprofit Reflects on 40 Years of Championing Local Artists
WASHINGTON, DC — ’Tis the season to celebrate, and the Washington Project for the Arts has much to toast.