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Learning Greensboro: From Listening to Falling in Love (Part 3)
Greetings from the final studio days of a mostly extra-studio project.
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Ancient Phallus Carving Gets Public Exposure After Two Decades as Garden Ornament
A carving of a phallus in a rock would probably seem like the handiwork of a bored youth today, but such imagery was especially common in ancient Greece and Rome as a symbol of good luck rather than a sexual reference.
In Brief
After PETA Lawsuit, Judge Rules Monkey Doesn’t Own the Copyright to His Selfie
In 2011, an Indonesian crested macaque monkey took a few grinning selfies with a camera found in his nature preserve. These "monkey selfies" would soon go viral.
Announcement
SVA Continuing Education Spring 2016 Information Sessions
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The Radical Discos of 1960s Italy and Architectural Innovation
LONDON — Although Radical Design was short-lived, its conceptual outcome had far-reaching implications, and the issues raised by the movement have preoccupied successive generations of architects and designers.
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Drawing on Humanity's Animal Nature
PARIS — Karel Appel would start drawing by shimmering bright muck or line around until it eventually formed into semi-abstract philosophical lava, or monkey shit, or the poetry of release.
Art
How the Naming of Clouds Changed the Skies of Art
The clouds in many 19th-century European paintings look drastically different than those in the 18th century.
Comics
Missed Museum Gift Shopportunities
The fine art of merchandising.
Opinion
It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s Another White Superhero!
The American white superman is a myth. When we insist on upholding the idea that he's real, we all suffer.
Art
The Modernist-Inspired Watercolors of a Pioneering Pueblo Painter
Tsireh's watercolors recall a remarkable period of creative art-making from the Native American community, and this exhibition gives him dimension and the recognition he deserves.
Art
Rescuing an Obscure Photographic Archive of Early 20th-Century Argentina
When German-born photographer Annemarie Heinrich opened her first studio in 1930, her adopted country of Argentina was experiencing a time of change from old cultural practices to industrialization.
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Robert Smithson's Sacred and Profane Pop
Pop, an exhibition currently on view at James Cohan’s new Grand Street location, explores a more obscure phase of Robert Smithson’s tragically brief career: his figurative engagement with popular culture.