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Can You Solve These Early 20th-Century Newspaper Puzzles?
Better known for his realist paintings of New York City street life, Ashcan School artist John Sloan was also a master of visual mind-bending.
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Masked Men Storm London's National Portrait Gallery in Bizarre BP Protest
On Sunday, masked men entered the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) in London, causing panic and a "stampede," as the London Evening Standard reported.
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No Longer Empty Is Accepting Applications for the Fall 2015 NLE Curatorial Lab
No Longer Empty Curatorial Lab (NLE Lab) is a 15-week professional development program for emerging curators that is dedicated to the curation of site-specific exhibitions. [http://engine.adzerk.net/p/eyJhdiI6MzAyMzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNjkyNTMsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6OTE4NTEyLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjk
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China’s Young Postmodern, Post-Mao Artists
LOS ANGELES — Jin Shan was 12 when the student-led Tiananmen Square protests of 1989 rocked China, eliciting a brutal and unprecedented military response.
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ArtRx NYC
Learn about the long history of activist graphic design in New York, pick up zines by its contemporary practitioners, and read them while you ride a vintage 1940s city bus around Governors Island.
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Harlem’s Studio Museum Taps David Adjaye to Design $122M Expansion
Visitors to the Studio Museum in Harlem have long been struck by its small size.
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A 19th-Century Paper Mill Transformed into a Space for Art
PLAINWELL, Mich. — In Sarah Lindley's current installation at the historic Plainwell Paper Mill Company in southwestern Michigan, she traces the watershed of the Kalamazoo River.
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22,000 Images from Leading US & UK Authors, Including Wilde & Thoreau, Released Online
Around 22,000 images from collections on 25 authors are now available through the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.
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Palestinian Artist's Rainbow Mural on the West Bank Wall Has Unintended Consequences
Artist Khaled Jarrar is no stranger to controversy.
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Is China Trying to Co-opt Ai Weiwei?
The Chinese government might be relaxing its censorious attitude toward Ai Weiwei.
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#BlackLivesMatter Protesters Target Confederate Monuments
Yesterday, officials at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill found a statue commemorating Civil War Confederate veterans spray-painted with the words "Murderer," "KKK," and "BLACK LIVES MATTER."
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UNESCO Designates 24 New World Heritage Sites, Including the Alamo
The United Nations has officially designated the Alamo as a UNESCO World Heritage Site over the weekend.