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This week, activism is the theme, with an exhibition centered on musical resistance, another featuring political posters, and a conference devoted to helping artists find and keep affordable workspaces.
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Parisian Mural Successfully Provokes Right-Wing Vandals
A mural by the French street artist Combo in Paris has become the target of far-right vandals, including one nationalist blogger who filmed herself tagging the mural with the message, "Antiracism is a codeword for antiwhite."
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GIFs That Bring Street Art to Life
A. L. Crego composes playful, bizarre GIFs from other people's street art.
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Bringing New York City's Underpasses Out of the Shadows and into Public Space
Over 700 miles of underdeveloped space are in the shadows of New York City's elevated highways and rails.
News
MoMA Workers Vote to Approve New Contract
On Monday evening, employees of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) who are members of the United Autoworkers Local 2110 voted to approve a new three-year contract that was offered by the museum's administration on Friday.
Performance
A Holocaust Survivor's Story in Postmodern Dance
Taking testimony from a Holocaust survivor and turning it into a dance is an intriguing but risky proposition, especially if you're not a Jew.
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Remembering Miriam Schapiro (1923–2015)
The American artist Miriam Schapiro died on Saturday. Her death brings up enormous issues about feminism, legacy, and about the role an artist plays in how she enters a history she helped to create.
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At the Havana Biennial, a Project Reflects on the Legacy of US Sanctions
French artist Didier Faustino offers a poetic reflection at this year's Havana Biennial on how five decades of sanctions have impacted Cuban youth.
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The Leaflets Dropped Before the Hiroshima Atomic Bomb
Hiroshima on the morning of August 6, 1945, was bright, sunny, and perhaps a little uncomfortably warm.
Announcement
Celebrate Retro TV and Modern Art with Music and Dancing at the Jewish Museum
The Jewish Museum invites you to The Wind Up, an after-hours event featuring art, live music, activities, and an open bar, on Thursday, June 25, from 8–11pm.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6NjY1NzksImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyNjI5NjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6OTA3MTMyLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjk1MTkzNSwiZmwi
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The Madcap Masonry of Clinker Bricks
With twisted, charred shapes distended in chaotic lines, clinker brick looks like the deranged work of a madman.
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Personal but Highly Political Highlights from the 2015 Venice Biennale
VENICE — As I feel my way through a curtain and into a pitch-black, cavernous space, a white square shimmers in the distance.