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Reuse and Replenish: The Turn Toward Environmentally Conscious Art
KANSAS CITY — Survival is civilization’s greatest inspiration.
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This week in art news: The Suicide Girls sell their Instagram prints for charity in response to Richard Prince's appropriation of their posts, Maya Angelou's art collection heads to auction, and artist Darren Cullen announced plans for an anti-Margaret Thatcher museum in London.
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Shepard Fairey Has Lost All Hope in Obama
In the seven years since Shepard Fairey created what might be, to date, the most iconic artwork of the century — the "Hope" poster for Barack Obama's 2008 US presidential campaign — its subject has had to make a lot of compromises and its creator has lost a lot of hope.
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New Fund Aims to Help Persecuted Artists
On Tuesday, the Institute of International Education announced a three-year pilot program that will provide artists "who face persecution in their home countries" with fellowships at universities and art centers "in countries where they can safely continue their work."
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The Maximalist World of a Collective Art Dream
Stepping into the fantastical world of I won’t wait for grey hairs and worldly cares to soften my views is like going through a portal, entering a delirious space of a collective dream.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of Water Lilies paintings destroyed by Monet just before a 1908 exhibition = 15
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Artist Confronts Our Fear of Strangers with Intimate Daily Gestures
George Ferrandi rides the subway. As passengers push and squeeze and avert their eyes, Ferrandi relaxes her joints and muscles, relinquishing any discomfort or fear that might linger in her posture.
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Astrological Aesthetics: June 2015 Horoscopes
Hyperallergic’s horoscopes offer astrological advice for artists and art types, in art terms, every month.
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Tomb-Raiding Archaeologists Arrested in Chinese Antiquities Trafficking Bust
Four archaeologists were among nearly 200 people from six Chinese provinces recently arrested for raiding ancient tombs and selling an estimated $80 million worth of antiquities on the black market, the Beijing Times reported.
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Threatened LA Googie Landmark Is Saved
LOS ANGELES — Architectural preservationists won a major victory last week, when the Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to designate Norms La Cienega as a Historic-Cultural Monument.
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How the Space Race Altered Art in the Americas
Space exploration and the science fiction imagination of alien encounters out in the stars reached their peak of optimistic possibility between the 1940s and 1970s, culminating with the first moon landing in 1969.
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Boston Art Prize Disappoints by Snubbing Local Artists
BOSTON — There is no actual historical evidence to support the idea that Jesús Malverde ever existed, and stories of Mexico’s “Robin Hood-like bandit” seem likely to have been fabricated over time, embellished, and then mainlined directly into the central nervous system of narco-culture thug life.