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Brothels, Artists, and Exorbitant Real Estate on One NYC Block
One block of New York City's Soho has had numerous identities over the past four centuries.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI revealed that the suspects in the Isabella Stewart Gardner heist are dead, the Knoedler Gallery settled three of the 10 lawsuits stemming from its forgery fiasco, and Patti Smith's 2010 memoir Just Kids will become a television series.
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The Young Lords’ Radical Agenda and the Problems that Persist
The exhibit aims to give local and global context for Young Lords’s activism while situating the social conflicts they addressed in ongoing struggles.
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Three Years After Sandy, South Street Seaport Gets $10.4 Million from FEMA
This week the South Street Seaport got an essential boost.
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Chicago Mayor Flattered, Kapoor Even Madder, as “Cloud Gate”-Gate Continues
Officials in Karamay, China, have not announced plans to remove a blatant copy of Anish Kapoor's "Cloud Gate" that opens to the public this month, which means "Cloud Gate"–gate is far from over.
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A Group Show Where Criticism Is Process
DETROIT — There seem to be two prevailing schools of thought among artists about process.
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The Time George Pataki (Now a Presidential Hopeful) Accused an Artist of “Denigrating America”
It was in the late spring of 2005 when the story first started making the rounds.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of nickel cadmium batteries required to power the first digital camera, which was created in 1973 = 16
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A Decade of Drawing the Metropolitan Museum's Flowers
For 10 years, artist Abbie Zabar had a ritual: go to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and sketch the new floral arrangements adorning the entrance hall.
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Two Confederate Statues May Be Removed from Their Prominent Perches
Today, efforts to relocate two statues — both of Confederate President Jefferson Davis — to local history museums were announced.
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Historic Chapel in Mexico Mysteriously Torn Down
Did a small town in Mexico bulldoze a historically protected chapel at the heart of its community last month?
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Kinetic Sculpture that Moves at a Snail-like Pace
PARIS — I particularly admire Pol Bury’s (1922–2005) shimmering, kinetic work when it almost imperceptibly quivers.