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Paris Department Store Kite Display Marks New Low for Ai Weiwei
PARIS — Like a good student of the bottomless pit of fashion, Ai Weiwei has delivered big on his latest class assignment.
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ArtRx NYC
This week is filled with openings and events that will get you thinking — about the Citi Bike as readymade, the role of the curator in artwashing, the way you eat and play, parenting in the art world, and more.
Opinion
Saatchi Gallery Congratulates Itself on First All-Women Art Show
Charles Saatchi, head of the eponymous Saatchi Gallery in London, doesn't exactly have the best feminist track record.
Art
Indian Artists Portray Bodies Pure and Profane
The well-known Delhi Art Gallery’s capacious new space in New York’s prestigious Fuller Building brings Indian modernists to a Western audience.
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Artists Issue Passports to Antarctica, the Final Borderless Frontier
To encourage public awareness of the ongoing role of Antarctica in global cooperation, France-based artist duo Lucy and Jorge Orta launched the mobile Antarctic World Passport Delivery Bureau in 2008 where anyone can pledge citizenship to the southernmost continent.
Community
A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Michigan, New York, Rhode Island, and the US Virgin islands.
Books
The First Flash Photographs of the Natural World At Night
With a magnesium flash triggered by a tripwire, George Shiras shot some of the world's first nocturnal wildlife photographs.
In Brief
Prehistoric Caves May Contain Oldest Paintings of Volcanic Eruptions
Since its discovery in 1994, the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc cave in southern France has been a rich site for researchers to study prehistoric art, featuring early paintings of both animals and humans on its walls.
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An Exhibition Focused on Empty Stages and Transitional Spaces
MEXICO CITY — Art school may be the closest thing to Hogwarts on this planet, where undergrads are desensitized to full-frontal nudity and cry in front of their classmates.
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Blerds and Bleeks Swarm Harlem's Black Comic Book Festival
Forget James Bond — how about we get Idris Elba to be the next Batman?
Announcement
Times Square’s First Artists in Residence Discuss Making Art at the Crossroads of the World
Join Times Square Arts on February 1 at 6pm for "Artists at the Crossroads," a presentation and conversation between the first two Times Square Arts’ Residency At The Crossroads artists.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NTEyMzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjozNTI3MDcsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjayI6e30sImNyIjo
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Catching the Uncanniness of Medical School Simulations
Learning diagnostic medicine is not just about recognizing symptoms of illness, but also involves interacting with the emotionally complex creature that is the human being.