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8 Hours at the Guggenheim's 24-Hour Party
Every party has a life cycle.
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This week in art news: New Orleans city officials consider inviting artists to appropriate the city's Confederate monuments, dismal queues plague Banksy's Dismaland, and avant-garde band Laibach became the first Western act to perform in North Korea.
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Holy Toledo! Big Red Art Ball Makes a Roll for It
On Wednesday night, a giant, 250-lb red ball tumbled down a road in Ohio, spurring locals to break the age-old command of parents to not chase rogue balls in the streets.
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Carnival Rides Spun into Abstraction
You haven’t really seen a ferris wheel until you’ve seen one photographed by Roger Vail.
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Jesus Looks Like a Lady: A Female Baroque Artist’s Mystical Vision
LISBON — Even as she was the subject of the exhibition The Sacred and the Profane in 1997 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, I had never heard of the Counter-Reformation Baroque (and Bodegón) painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684), before a trip to Lisbon.
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A Not-Quite-Great Documentary About the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
"I think I can paint anything," says Wolfgang Beltracchi, the infamous German art forger, in Arne Birkenstock's documentary Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery.
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Sum of the Arts
Miles messages can travel in Turkey's old whistling language = 3
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Banksy’s New Apocalyptic Theme Park Is Designed to Disappoint
Today, it was officially announced that British artist Banksy has constructed a dystopian riff on Disneyland in a derelict seaside resort in Weston-super-Mare, England.
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Learn to Fight Capitalism at the School of Disobedience
A forthcoming exhibition in Helsinki will offer visitors an education grounded in disobedience and protest, equipping them with tools and ideas to challenge society's injustices and fight for change.
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FBI Offers Reward for Two Stolen N.C. Wyeth Paintings
Seen any sentimental oil paintings of medieval knights hanging around lately?
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Mesmerizing GIFs of Japan's Floating World
Centuries-old Japanese ukiyo-e have received a delightful update, transformed into animated scenes that sometimes include surprising, modern imagery.
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An Artist's Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.