Art
Microsoft’s New Emotion-Detecting App Deems the Mona Lisa 43% Happy
Microsoft's Project Oxford photo research division has just released a new demo of a tool that detects emotions in photographed faces using machine-learning techniques.
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Interview
On Transforming All 613 Jewish Commandments into Dazzling Paintings
In the year 2000, Brooklyn-born painter Archie Rand embarked on the most ambitious project of his career: He would transform each of the 613 Jewish mitzvahs into its own vibrant painting.
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Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Los Angeles Art Shows
LOS ANGELES — From a show of ancient Greek bronzes at the J. Paul Getty Museum to Rafa Esparza's adobe brick constructions at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Los Angeles was overflowing with dynamic exhibitions this year that introduced new talents and reconsidered the old.
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Sacred Bones and the Catacomb Saint of Manhattan
Catholic churches in Europe host as many bones as a graveyard, with bits of saints and intact incorrupt bodies encased in glass and displayed on ornate altars.
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The New Director of South Korea's National Modern Art Museum Responds to His Critics
On Monday Bartomeu Marí, the former head of the Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, began his new job as head of South Korea's National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, marking the first time the museum has had an official director in over a year.
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From Snippets of Code, a Series of Apps Lets Users Produce Millions of Sounds and Visuals
You’re probably reading this article on your phone. What if, instead, you were taking part in an art exhibit, or a concert, or both?
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Best of 2015: Our Top 10 Exhibitions Across the United States
We love NYC and LA and all the art they have to offer, but we know they're only two towns of many across the country mounting great exhibitions large and small.
News
The World's Oldest Tattoos Are on the Weathered Skin of an Alpine Ice Mummy
When hikers in the Alps stumbled upon the mummy known as Ötzi the Iceman along the Austrian–Italian border in 1991, the body was so well preserved that they feared they'd discovered the corpse of a fellow mountaineer.
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New Master’s Program at The New School Empowers Students to Change the World with Words
The Creative Publishing and Critical Journalism graduate students go beyond typical writing assignments to develop clear and critical thinking skills necessary to become media-savvy writers of the future.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MjQwNTcsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozMzk1NzUsImNoIjoxOTMwL
Music
Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Bach but Were Afraid to Ask Marina Abramović
We are too distracted, too stressed out to listen to music properly. That’s the idea behind Goldberg, the music concert/installation/participatory performance art piece currently at the Park Avenue Armory.
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The Enveloping Darkness of John Singer Sargent’s Prints and Drawings
Rare examples of John Singer Sargent's printmaking are on temporary view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, demonstrating his interest in the expressive shapes of the human body and lithography's potential to show these figures in darkness and light.
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An Artist's Mission to Photograph Every House in Poland in the 1980s
In 1978, artist Zofia Rydet set out on a mission she knew was impossible: she wanted to photograph every house in her native country of Poland.