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Arlene Shechet's Unified Theory of Ceramics
BOSTON — The ads for Arlene Shechet's exhibition All at Once have been intriguing and unsettling.
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Hip-Hop, ‘Hamilton,' and the Deficit of Diversity on Broadway
Broadway in 2015 still has a major deficit of diversity.
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Did Cooper Union Just Get a Second Chance?
They said it couldn't be done, but today's announcement by the Committee to Save Cooper Union (CSCU) suggests that the turmoil that has engulfed the beloved Manhattan university may be coming to an end.
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Finding Refuge at a Ball-Pit Beach Inside a Museum
WASHINGTON, DC — If that video of pro surfer Mick Fanning’s near shark attack kept you out of the water this summer, you can still get some fin-free beach time in before Labor Day at the National Building Museum.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a Spanish town replaces a prehistoric tomb with a picnic table, Cossacks destroy a Mephistopheles sculpture, San Francisco sues a graffiti writer, and more.
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Found Photographs Show How Couples Light It Up During Chinese Weddings
There are nearly as many smokers in China as there are Americans in the United States. That staggering statistic might help explain the central role cigarettes play in traditional Chinese weddings.
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From Beach Sandals to Ghost Nets, Artists Confront the Plastic Pollution of the Oceans
The rotating current of the North Pacific Gyre contains in its ocean vortex a cloud of plastic debris constantly moving below the surface, a marine hazard nicknamed the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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At Venice Biennale, Artists Stage a Pageant for Precarious Workers in Abu Dhabi
VENICE — When I arrived in Venice three weeks ago, I immediately headed to the tip of the Donsoduro to S.a.L.E. docks, a contemporary art space run by artist and activist Marco Baravalle. As part of its Biennale programming, the G.U.L.F. was set to have the Precarious Workers Pageant that evening.
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New Tests Date World's Oldest Wood Carving to 11,000 Years Ago
The world's oldest wood carving just got older.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a group show tackles ocean pollution, a documentary on the photographer who shot Che screens, camp and kitsch comes to 356 Mission with the Seth Bogart Show, and more.
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Discovery of Ancient Greek 'Palace' Reveals Fragments of a Lost Language
The Greek Ministry of Culture announced on August 25 that since 2009, archaeologists at a Mycenaean palace on Aghios Vassilios Hill on Greece's Sparta plain have unearthed numerous artifacts.
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How the Photography of Dorothea Lange and Ansel Adams Told the Story of Japanese American Internment
After photographing families and other residents being led into “assembly centers” in the central and coastal cities of California and the county seats of Salinas, Stockton, Turlock, and San Bruno, photographer Dorothea Lange turned her camera to southern California, towards the first concentration