Art
The Group Working Behind the Scenes to Diversify Museum Staffs
“I would never have gotten this opportunity without the support of the Museum Hue community,” said Stephanie PhaFa Roy, Visitor Services and Digital Content Manager at MoCADA.
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Meet the Next Generation of Creative Thinkers at MICA’s 2016 Grad Show
MICA invites you to join the next generation of creative thinkers – artists, designers, filmmakers, educators, curators, and critics – as they demonstrate the power and possibilities of contemporary art and design.
Art
The Otherworldly Modern Homes that Were Never Built
While other modern architects imagined a future of single-family homes that resembled Rubik's Cubes, with boxy exteriors and primary-colored walls, Austrian-American artist and architect Frederick Kiesler considered a return to cave dwelling.
Art
Testing the Possibilities of Online Education with Museum MOOCs
MOOCs (massive open online courses) have been both hailed as a possible solution to providing low-cost, high-quality education and derided as a destructive reallocation of resources from public education to private corporations.
Comics
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Art
Ecological Art that Miniaturizes (and Minimizes) Climate Change
PARIS — Climats Artificiels at the Espace Fondation EDF is an impertinent and multigenerational group show of contemporary art — heavy on miniature biosphere mockups — that raises the question of the current value of ironic artificiality.
Art
From a Helicopter, a Photographer Finds Novel Angles on NYC
There's a reason why thousands of tourists wait in hours-long lines to One World Trade Center’s observation deck or to peer out from the Statue of Liberty’s crown: seeing New York City from the sky is an indescribable sight.
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From an Extinct Lion to an Alligator Mid-Meal, Preserving Moments from the Bronx Zoo’s Glass Plate Archive
Since 1901, the Wildlife Conservation Society's Bronx Zoo has maintained a photography department, and now holds a collection of over 70,000 glass plate and film negatives.
Film
A Portrait of an Iranian Artist Who Went Home After 25 Years in Exile
WASHINGTON, DC — In Iran, it’s difficult to know where the artistic and the political are separated, if they can be separated at all.
In Brief
NASA Releases Retro Posters for the Future of Space Exploration
Back in the 1930s and '40s, during the height of the Great Depression, artists designed posters for the Works Projects Administration (WPA) to encourage travel to national parks and other tourist sites in the United States.
In Brief
Brussels Museums Now Showing Buckets and a Pigeon, Thanks to Water Damage
The infrastructure of some of Brussels's federally funded art museums is in such poor shape that government officials will congregate next week at a "crisis meeting" to discuss it.
News
Study Finds Some 3D Printers Emit Toxic Particles
In recent years, as 3D printers have become more affordable and mass-produceable, they've become commonplace in schools, homes, and creative studios.