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This week in art news: Over 4,500 objects from the British Museum can now be viewed online, MoMA returns a Kirchner stolen from a Jewish collector by the Nazis, and Sotheby's prepares for a sale of Star Wars memorabilia.
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Hand-Cut Newspaper Mosaics Slow Down Our Reading
When she approaches a newsstand, Montreal-based artist Myriam Dion often buys 20 copies of that day's paper — at times, even more than that.
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In Wake of Terrorist Attacks, France Looks to Fight ISIS with Cultural Preservation
This week, France announced two plans to fight back against ISIS’s cultural destruction. French culture minister Fleur Pellerin unveiled a $6 million fund that will help France’s cultural institutions recover from the recent attack.
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An Artist Persists in Syria in a Time of War
HONG KONG — What does it feel like to be an artist as the art and architecture of your culture is systematically being obliterated?
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Prosthetic Devices for the Modern Psyche
Susanna Hertrich is as much a designer and researcher as she is an artist; her show at Art Laboratory Berlin constructs a narrative in which human senses, instincts, and emotions are prosthetically enhanced to better suit the specific challenges of the 21st century.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of magnetic tape recordings in museums and other archives that won't be possible to digitize in 20 years due to changing technology and disintegration = 46,000,000
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Putting the "Mobile" in Automobile: A Car Made from Discarded Cell Phones
Americans throw away approximately 130 million cell phones every year.
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A Lakota Sioux Warrior's Eyewitness Drawings of Little Bighorn
One of the most popular images of the 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn is "Custer's Last Stand" by Cassilly Adams, who ditched historical accuracy for a romanticized George Armstrong Custer standing tall against the encroaching horde of horseback warriors.
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A Poop Art Show Aims to Wipe Out the Global Sanitation Crisis
The smiling poop emoji is just five years old, but it has already infiltrated American culture, inspiring everything from halloween costumes to nail decals.
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When Hens Look Like Maleviches
There is no perfect word or glossary to describe where Laura Lima takes art.
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Join Hyperallergic for Conversations About Spectacle, Performance, and the Miami Art Scene at PULSE
This year, we're excited to announce that we've teamed up with PULSE Miami Beach to present two exciting discussions as part of the PULSE PERSPECTIVES series.
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From Henry Clay Frick to Gilded Matzah, Observing the World in Glass Cases
PHILADELPHIA — Upon entering Joshua Reiman’s inventive new show Glass Houses at the Napoleon Gallery, the first thing that strikes you is one of sound rather than vision: a steady, persistent drip-drip-drip of water into a tank.