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Leonardo da Vinci Designed a Refrigerator
When Leonardo da Vinci wasn't painting portraits of medieval Italy's nobility, he was figuring out how to keep their drinks cold.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Egyptian citizens railed against an ugly statue of Nefertiti, Random International's "Rain Room" will travel to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Hirshhorn acquired the Art Workers' Coalition's iconic "Q. And babies?" poster.
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Follow All the Tech and Trash Orbiting Earth, in Real Time
While humanity has only been launching huge payloads into outer space since the 1950s, with Sputnik breaking into orbit in 1957, a lot of human-made debris and technology now circle the planet.
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Kiev's Attractive New Police Force Told to Pose for Selfies with Civilians
When 2,000 new police officers were sworn into duty in Kiev last Saturday, Ukrainians couldn't help noticing how attractive the recruits — a quarter of them women — looked.
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Confronting Our Apathy Anew with Samuel Beckett
On paper, Happy Days looks pretty unappealing.
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Obama Declares Tract of Nevada Desert, and Michael Heizer's "City," a National Monument
In March, the art world rallied to call for the protection of Nevada's Basin and Range area, a landscape of rich archaeological resources and the site of Michael Heizer's sprawling land art piece, "City" (1972–present).
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Revisiting Le Corbusier as a Fascist
PARIS — Spoiler alert: The deplorable revelations recounted here will not ruin your appreciation of the sublime beauty of Le Corbusier’s masterpieces.
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Sum of the Arts
Photographs taken by Alice's Adventures in Wonderland author Lewis Caroll in his lifetime = 3,000
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Report Finds New York City's Creative Sector Is Thriving, for Now
In a trend piece two months ago that caused much snickering on the internet, the New York Times wrote that creative New Yorkers are peacing out and heading west to Los Angeles, which the article heralded as a "bohemian paradise."
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In Bushwick, Street Art Comes with a Copious Side of Advertising Billboards
The latest additions to the Bushwick Collective, the street art project founded and curated by Joe Ficalora around the intersection of Troutman Street and St Nicholas Avenue in Brooklyn, are a number of big, garish billboards.
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Preserving the Concrete Listening Ears of Early Surveillance
Prior to the invention of radar in the 1930s, a system of concrete acoustic mirrors was set up around the coast of the United Kingdom as an early form of surveillance.
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From Duchamp to Hipsters, the Art of Selling Air
Are you tired of your local air? If so, a bag of atmospheric gases from Williamsburg, Brooklyn, could be yours if you have thousands of dollars to burn.