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TSA Confronts Age-old Question: Bomb or Abstract Art?
Today, TSA Public Affairs spokesperson Lisa Farbstein tweeted a photo of an object the organization's staff encountered at New York's JFK Airport.
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Abracadabra! Republicans Want to Designate Magic a "Rare and Valuable Art Form"
You may not believe in magic, but it has touched the souls of a number of Republicans, who are now calling for the nation to officially recognize it "as a rare and valuable art form and national treasure."
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Hyperallergic Instagram Commission: E.'s #ejanehype
Over the past 10 days, artist E. posted images and videos on Hyperallergic’s Instagram (@hyperallergic [https://www.instagram.com/hyperallergic/]) feed that focused on Black femme culture, cultural producers, and related critical discourses.
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Imagining the Possible Futures of Virtual Reality
“THE FUTURE IS NOW,” reads the header from the online bill for Versions: The Creative Landscape of Virtual Reality, a conference held earlier this month at the New Museum, co-presented by NEW INC and Kill Screen.
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Trump l’oeil: A Conversation with the Donald’s Portrait Painter
Donald Trump doesn’t like to appear sketchy.
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A New Tool Maps the NYC Landmarks Near You
Last month, the New York City Landmarks Preservation Commission (LPC) voted to recommend 30 of the sites from its backlog of nearly 100 as potential landmarks.
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Grayson Perry, Schoolchildren, and Others Design Postcards to Support Syrian Refugees
“MACHO POSTURING / THERE IS NO GOD,” reads British artist Grayson Perry’s newest drawing, which depicts an industrial wasteland with territories marked “fragile hope,” “crap jobs,” and “motorway of dreams (mistaken).”
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Returning “Topless Cellist” Charlotte Moorman to Her Rightful Place in the Avant-Garde
EVANSTON, Ill. — A Feast of Astonishments: Charlotte Moorman and the Avant-Garde, 1960s–1980s, currently on view at the Northwestern University’s Block Museum, is a masterful (if only slightly overwhelming) orchestration of original artworks and archival materials that examines the legacy of avant-g
Comics
The Trump Fast
An exciting plan sure to lower your blood pressure.
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Drawing the Invisible Shapes of Energy
It's difficult to find spaces of tranquility in downtown Manhattan, much less in Soho, but Louise Despont has created an immersive and meditative space in the Drawing Center that invites you to slow down and shut out the noise of the city.
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Two Artists Use Pharmacological Aesthetics to Show Capitalism’s Sickness
MOSCOW — Is there an intrinsic relationship between individual addictions and mechanisms of collective control? Critic and theorist Boris Kliushnikov seems to think so.
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Good Bye, Lenin! Ukraine Dismantles Its Largest Monument to the Communist Leader
Ukraine's largest monument to Vladimir Lenin is finally coming down, and you can join local spectators in watching the whole ordeal live.