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Artist studios in Florida, Missouri, New York, Texas, and Australia.
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Arkansas Tells Artist to Stop Putting Toilets in Her Yard
Nearly 100 years after Marcel Duchamp made "Fountain," bathroom plumbing fixtures are still way too edgy for Hot Springs, Arkansas.
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Revisiting a 1992 Sign Project that Acknowledged NYC's Lost Histories
In 1992, artist collective REPOhistory installed 39 aluminum signs in Lower Manhattan that highlighted the overlooked history of New York City.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: "Algie" the inflatable Pink Floyd pig was withdrawn from auction, only one student enrolled in USC's Roski School of Art and Design MFA program, and Sotheby's announced the sale of A. Alfred Taubman's art collection.
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Carnegie Museum of Art Makes its Provenance Accessible and Interactive
Label text rarely describes the life of a painting before it arrived at a museum, yet there's a whole narrative of ownership in a painting's journey from an artist's studio to a static place on the wall.
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Why Don't More Americans Go to Museums?
In the past we may have turned to pollsters or psychics, while today we turn to Twitter to look at the hive mind and discover why.
Opinion
How We Talk About the Dead
Imagine a person like this: “one of a handful of people who can truly be said to have changed the way we think and write about art, fashion, culture, and celebrity.”
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New Digital Archaeology Effort Attempts to Capture Cultural Heritage Before It's Gone
As ISIS continues to destroy the world's cultural heritage, archaeologists and other onlookers continue to scramble to find ways to counter the destruction.
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The Erotics of the Everyday
MEXICO CITY — Martin Soto Climent’s solo show, now on view at Proyectos Monclova, illustrates humanity’s perverse ability to sexualize everyday objects.
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Revitalizing a Dying Region of Rural Japan with Art
Every spring, a resurrection occurs in the Echigo-Tsumari area of Japan’s Niigata prefecture.
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Sum of the Arts: Lost Civilizations
Number of large-scale bronzes that survive from ancient Greece = ~200
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Japan Wipes Away Pretentiousness with Art Festival Devoted to Toilets
Relieve yourself of the conventional biennials and triennials of the art world with the first art festival dedicated entirely to bathrooms.