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Decrying Real Estate Summit, Artists Stage Demonstration Outside Brooklyn Museum
"Gentrification in progress," read the tape, its black type printed on yellow strips as all good warnings are.
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Slicing Up a Limo as a Metaphor for Detroit
DETROIT — A limousine can be many things: transportation of choice for prom, a status marker, and a bit of a paradox.
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The Music to Soothe the Savage Beast May Be Punk and Metal
A few years ago, in Sweden, a self-proclaimed "heavy metal addict" was awarded state disability benefits after having his obsession with the band Slayer classified as a handicap. It's one of the weirder examples of the stigma attached to metal and other "extreme" music genres.
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1,700-Year-Old Mosaic Unearthed in Israel
Israel Antiquities Authority yesterday unveiled a large, 1,700-year-old mosaic floor featuring intricate patterns and images of animals, uncovered in the city of Lod, about nine miles southeast of Tel Aviv.
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Anti-Gentrification Activists Protest Real Estate Summit at Brooklyn Museum
More than 100 activists and artists affiliated with community groups from throughout the city gathered at the Brooklyn Museum this morning to protest its hosting of the 2015 Brooklyn Real Estate Summit.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Hammer Museum hosts a game festival, celebrated cabaret singer Joey Arias brings his Billie Holiday tribute to REDCAT, the mini-golf course is reimagined as a site for art, and more.
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The Socialist Education of Andy Warhol
Socialism probably isn’t the first political movement you’d think to associate with Andy Warhol.
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Get an MFA in Intermedia & Digital Arts at UMBC
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Two Crowdfunding Campaigns Aim to Create Art for the Blind
Imagine never being able to see the Mona Lisa, much less understand what people mean when they talk about her enigmatic smile.
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Jacob Riis's Photographic Battle with New York's 19th-Century Slums
Jacob Riis may have set his house on fire twice, and himself aflame once, as he perfected the new 19th-century flash photography technique, but when the magnesium powder erupted with a white, blinding light, he illuminated some of the darkest corners of Manhattan's impoverished tenements.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, you can protest a real estate summit outside the Brooklyn Museum, learn about the history of Chinatown restaurants, catch performance art at Performa, and much more.
Books
The Melancholy Art of Japanese Floral Arrangements
Ikebana, which translates to "living flowers," is the Japanese art of floral arrangement that dates back to the 16th century.