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School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Summer 2015 Information Sessions
The Division of Continuing Education Information Sessions provide you with the chance to spend an evening with some of New York City’s top creative talent
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In Brief
Van Gogh in Virtual Reality
Orbs of orange paint suggested the light of the lamps past midnight in Vincent van Gogh's 1888 "Le Café de nuit" (The Night Café) and in a new virtual reality take on his painting of the Café de la Gare in Arles, France, they come to life with radiating colors.
Art
The Strange Union of Contemporary Art and the Hudson River School
HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church's architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.
Books
The Nomadic Libraries Bringing Books to the Four Corners of the Globe
Arriving by camel in remote areas of Mongolia or on boat along the coast of Norway, contemporary libraries are often mobile, creative, and community-driven, and are adapting rather than fading with the rise of electronic books and decrease in budgets.
Art
Voodoo, Abstraction, and a Haitian Artist in Paris
PARIS — The art in Hervé Télémaque’s Centre Pompidou retrospective floats between Port-au-Prince, New York, and Paris.
Art
What Was Art of the 1990s All About?
MONTCLAIR, NEW JERSEY — To devote a show to an era is to delimit the era in question, carving it off from surrounding epochs and ascribing some measure of thematic or aesthetic continuity to it.
Opinion
What Else Could $180 Million Buy?
The record price paid for Pablo Picasso’s “‘Les femmes d’Alger (Version 'O')" (1955) made us wonder what else could $180M buy?
News
Choice Quotes from Kanye's Address at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Kanye West received his honorary doctorate from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) yesterday. The night before, he gave a talk at the school that began as a question-and-answer session but devolved, quite wonderfully, into a rambling, free-associative lecture.
News
Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Jonathan Meese acquitted in Nazi salute dispute, Picasso works disappear in transit, and Charles Saatchi sues Saatchi Art for Saatchi name.
In Brief
Study Reveals Electrically Stimulating the Brain Can Enhance Creativity
A recent study conducted by scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill reveals that it is possible to enhance creativity by zapping certain regions of the brain with electrical currents.
Opinion
Rebuilding Demolished Penn Station Isn't New York's Redemption
When the soaring ceilings and Doric columns of the McKim, Mead & White-designed Pennsylvania Station started to fall under the wrecking ball in 1963, architecture critic Ada Louise Huxtable called it a "monumental act of vandalism against one of the largest and finest landmarks of its age of Roman e
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a film on vibrant street life in Marrakesh, a talk on the history of gay Japanese art, a multi-media sci-fi installation, and much more.