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Mosaic Possibly Depicting Alexander the Great Found in Ancient Synagogue
If the mosaic truly shows Alexander, it would be the first pictorial representation of a non-Biblical story ever found in a Jewish house of worship.
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The Story of Reviving a Community Art Center in Battambang, Cambodia
I arrived in Battambang, Cambodia, late last year via a 5-hour bus ride from Siem Reap.
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Art Saves
"Being an artist is like any other job … "
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Required Reading
This week, Eid cards, a mysterious "Chicken Church," Cosby and Smithsonian, the best Dutch galleries in the US, an architect talks about the perfect sandcastle, and more.
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Weekend Words: Pope
Last Sunday, Pope Francis wound up his eight-day, three-country tour of Latin America —home to the world’s largest Catholic population — where he called unfettered capitalism “the dung of the devil.”
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RuPaul's Electronic Drag Music
RuPaul is a gifted musician whose work gets overlooked by critics partially because of his considerable television presence hosting The RuPaul Show and RuPaul’s Drag Race, partially because of his exclusive appeal to a specialized niche market.
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Two Ways of Making a Painting in the 21st Century
Ever since the beginning of this century, when Ruth Root got rid of her references to Philip Guston, she has gotten better and better. In her current show, Ruth Root, at Andrew Kreps, she has kicked out the jams, and the results are unlike anything else being done right now.
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Mud Above Sky Below: Love and Death in Jacob Lawrence’s ‘Migration Series’
Spring, 1968. All my students were black, and I wasn't. Jacob Lawrence, who was teaching a course down the hall from me at Pratt Institute, was a famous artist and a real teacher; I wasn’t either of those things.
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Tokyo, Mon Amour: The City in Photos, as Monster and Muse
In East Asia, sprawling, dynamic, constantly changing Tokyo has a long history as a seductive subject and muse for innovative camera artists, but that tradition and the remarkable, often unexpected images it has produced are still not so widely known in the West outside a relatively small but growin
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The Presence of Absence: Three Artists at Brian Morris
Cuts Noon Light is a sleek, smart, strikingly cohesive group show at Brian Morris Gallery featuring the work of three very different artists, Andrew Ginzel, Kara Rooney, and Steel Stillman. At once immediately familiar and decidedly alien, its hybrid objects foreground the unseen, the cryptic, and t
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Tracing Back to the World's Oldest Known Cello
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is hosting a special summer guest: the world's oldest known cello.
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Hidden Artworks That Come with Instructions
Maria Nordman’s show is not the first thing you’ll see when you step off the elevator and into Marian Goodman’s midtown space.