Books
Too Fragile to Open, World’s Oldest Multicolor Printed Book Is Digitized
The 17th-century Manual of Calligraphy and Painting (Shi zhu zhai shu hua pu) is so fragile that until digitization no one was allowed to open it.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: the FBI released security footage of the night before the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum heist, a seven-year-old boy got stuck in a work of public art, and the Ashmolean Museum acquired a trove of illustrated correspondence between Sir Edward Burne-Jones and Helen Mary Gaskel
Art
Saintly Collages of Everyday People
In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is highlighting women artists.
Art
Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
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An Artwork Forces Us to Face Mexico’s Disappeared Students
People who have the luxury of not being directly affected by the world’s many injustices often feel fatigued by so much bad news.
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Instagram Deletes Activist Account After #KKKorGOP Posts
Last night, the activist group Dream Defenders contributed to the first GOP debate through Instagram, posting on its account collaged images of Republican candidates and members of the KKK, tagged #KKKorGOP.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Indiana, Michigan, Washington, and the UK.
Art
A String Spectacle Designed for Selfies in a DC Warehouse
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent Howard University architecture grads Tolu Rufai and Khai Grubbs are luring people to an abandoned warehouse in Northeast DC with nothing but yarn … and the promise of Instagram likes.
Opinion
The Problems with an Exclusive Club that Grants “Membership” to the Art World
A new, savvy strategy for marketing the modern and contemporary art scene has appeared.
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The History of NYC's First Nine Landmark Parks
On a July morning, at the tender age of five, I watched the building next to my Bronx tenement capitulate to the blows of a wrecking ball.
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What the Lascaux Caves Facsimiles Fail to Capture
PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition.
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Sum of the Arts
Percentage of 1,300 art galleries surveyed last year whose annual revenue was under $200,000 = 55