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A Pop-Up Exhibition Hopes to Save a Masterpiece of Googie Architecture
LEXINGTON, Ky. — As visitors walked through the historic People’s Bank in Lexington, Kentucky, bits of waxy, tan paint strips fell from the walls.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: raccoons go on rogue art crawl, artists' work is trapped after a gallery's eviction, and a Star Wars print is swiped by Canadians who've gone over to the dark side.
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Pussy Riot’s New Music Video Imagines a Refugee Revolt at Banksy’s Dismaland
"Refugees in, Nazis out / Governments here should feel the shame / Fucking liars, you're to blame," Pussy Riot sing in their just-released video, "Refugees In."
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Native American Artists Envision a Sublime Apocalypse
SANTA FE — An Evening Redness in the West explores the landscape of an apocalyptic world, investigating the doom of end times but also their promise of a new beginning.
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Louise Bourgeois's Anxieties Find a Home in Moscow’s Art Garage
MOSCOW — Should you find yourself among the fountains and fields of Gorky Park, and should you wander into the vicinity of the Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, and should you be a serious, no-bullshit arachnophobe, look down at your feet and return the way you came.
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Tricking Perception in a Maze of Mirrors
Natasha Johns-Messenger has created a maze of mirrors in "ThreeFold" (2015). It will make you laugh at how easily mirrors can trick and fool your mind.
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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.