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At Home with Vilhelm Hammershøi
The room is quiet. We stand on the fringes, in the shadows, divided from the softly luminous space that’s momentarily brought into the light.
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A Message from Program Director Daniel Tucker of Moore College of Art & Design
In many ways running a graduate department at Moore College of Art & Design in Philadelphia is like an art project – assembling people, framing ideas, transforming raw material. In terms of people, we have some of the most thoughtful and talented people in the city and nation on our faculty.[http://
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Documenting the Vanishing Hermitages of the Egyptian Desert
Constructed from stacked rocks and carved into remote mountainsides, the desert hermitages of Egypt and Sudan are barely perceptible in the arid landscape.
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Two Decades of Life in Prison Drilled into Ostrich Eggs
Beginning in his early twenties, Gil Batle spent two decades in and out of five California prisons, mostly for fraud and forgery of documents from IDs to checks and credit cards.
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Inside the Skeleton of Rem Koolhaas's Under-Construction Miami Beach Forum
MIAMI BEACH — A new cultural center designed by Rem Koolhaas with OMA is aiming to give Miami Beach a year-round multidisciplinary arts hub.
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Tate Modern’s Absorbing but Haphazard Look at Global Pop Art
LONDON — The World Goes Pop is an exhilarating collection filled with fizzing energy, so its curatorial messiness can be forgiven.
Comics
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Phone-Holder
It's all relative.
Art
Composing a Symphony of War with Instruments and Everyday Objects
What does war sound like? For Samson Young, it’s calm, somewhat foreboding — human, organic, often silent but with bursts of technological noise.
Art
Olafur Eliasson's Sundial of Melting Icebergs Clocks In at Half-Past Wasteful
PARIS — In the aftermath of November’s terrorist attacks and the ruling Socialist Party’s meltdown following a strong first-round showing for Marine Le Pen’s far-right Front National party, I glummly went to the Place du Panthéon to see Ice Watch Paris, an exhibition of melting icebergs by Danish re
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Cash Rules Everything Around Medicine: Big Pharma Exec Buys Only Copy of New Wu-Tang Clan Album
Today a Bloomberg Business article revealed the buyer of the only copy of the new Wu-Tang Clan album, Once Upon a Time in Shaolin..., to be pharmaceutical executive Martin Shkreli.
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Artists and Activists Sing, Spill “Oil” in Anti–Fossil Fuel Protests at the Louvre
PARIS — As leaders from around the world met here for a tenth day of climate change policy negotiations, more than a hundred activists and members of several art collectives gathered at the Louvre this afternoon to highlight the institution’s ties to the fossil fuel industry.
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Critically Acclaimed Animated Film 'Boy and the World' Opens Dec 11 at IFC Center
From the distributor that brought you Academy Award nominees Song of the Sea, The Tale of the Princess Kaguya, The Secret of Kells, and more comes a true work of art: the critically-acclaimed, visually electrifying musical odyssey BOY AND THE WORLD.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTA4NTkyLCJh