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Write the Stories of Thousands of Found Polaroids
In the 1970s and '80s the Polaroid instant camera quickly captured family moments and delivered the images on the spot.
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Three Days of Debating Social Justice at the Venice Biennale
VENICE — As folks streamed into the dimmed theater and escaped the Venetian heat, I felt a sense of anticipation. Creative Time, which has been showcasing its support of socially engaged art practices for decades, made its way into the Venice Biennale’s central exhibition All the World’s Futures, or
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A Visit to the Icelandic Folk and Outsider Art Museum
AKUREYRI, Iceland — If you set out from Reykjavík northbound on Route 1, the road that rings around most of Iceland, you will, after give or take five hours, find yourself in Akureyri.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, hear the ethereal sounds of the glass armonica, take a spa day at Eastside International, visit the Museum of Contemporary Art's (MOCA) new project space, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: thieves boost a bronze Rodin in Copenhagen, man is busted for trying to sell a fake van Gogh, and two works go missing from Slovakia's Andy Warhol museum.
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California Academy of Sciences Will Divest from Fossil Fuels
In response to environmental groups demanding science and natural history museums cut funding connected with the fossil fuel industry, San Francisco's California Academy of Sciences says it will.
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7 Reasons to Attend the Hand-in-Glove Convening in Minneapolis–St. Paul
Nearly 400 arts organizers will converge in the Twin Cities September 17–20 for the third Hand-in-Glove convening. This gathering of alternative spaces, artist-led projects, and artists’ organizations also marks the launch of Common Field, a new national visual arts network.[http://engine.nectarads.
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Soda-Swigging Schoolkid Punches Hole in 17th-Century Painting
A trip to an art exhibition in Taipei ended in a less-than-ideal manner for a 12-year-old boy, who tripped and broke his fall by sticking his fist through a painting — thereby realizing everyone's worst museum-related nightmare.
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Undoing Denials at the Venice Biennale's Armenian Pavilion
Since its inception a couple of decades ago following Armenia’s independence, the curatorial direction of the national pavilion at the Venice Biennale leaned predominantly towards showcasing artists who work/live in Yerevan.
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Help the British Library Decipher an 800-Year-Old Sword Inscription
Could a mystery that’s stumped historians for nearly two centuries be solved by internet commenters?
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ArtRx NYC
We advise you to close out summer the best way New York knows how: with film screenings.
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A Midcentury Manhattan Mosaic Returns to Public View
A midcentury mosaic forgotten for years beneath metal paneling on a Midtown Manhattan office building is now restored and on permanent public view.