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Poll Finds 1 in 25 US Citizens Unsure If They Own Art
Not all surveys of public opinion about visual art are equal.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's the 25th anniversary of a drag doc, shoe designer Chris Francis sets up shop in the Craft & Folk Art Museum, the Hammer hosts a talk on black conceptualism, and more.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: vandals attack Lego superhero statue, New York cops blast police brutality artwork, Cuban paintings stolen in Miami heist.
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Weather Report: Hito Steyerl's Documentary Forecast for the Digital Age
For the last several years now, as the credits roll at the end of her films, artist Hito Steyerl’s name, rather than appearing alongside the typical “Written and Directed by,” is listed with roles (or non-roles) considerably more blurred and expressionistic.
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In Detroit, an Arts Festival Crosses Borders
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Borders are a slippery concept, one that seems to exist only in theory most of the time, but occasionally manifests in reality dramatically.
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ArtPrize Announces $200,000 Grand Prize Jury for Seventh Annual Event - Artists Register Before June 4
This fall the seventh annual ArtPrize competition will be awarding a total of $500,000 including two top prizes of $200,000 each, one decided by public vote, the other decided by a panel of three jurors.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MzkzMiwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjI0Njg1OSwiY2giOjE5MzAsIm
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The Glass Plate Garden: Early Photographs of Central Park
In thousands of recently digitized glass plate negatives, the natural and landscaped grandeur of gardens past is revealed in freshly sharp detail.
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Exploring the Terrain of Contemporary Native American Art
Where are the indigenous stories, communities, and artists within “American” contemporary art?
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ArtRx NYC
The weather is heating up in NYC, and so are the art events. This week, visit shows devoted to "neo-craftivism" and geometric abstraction, imagine the city's unrealized urban plans — or just kick back with cat videos.
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A Project that Lets You Control Music with Your Mind
With new technology comes new opportunities to augment our reality, and two art projects now on view in Brooklyn experiment with our interaction with sound through electronic devices.
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An Artist's Installations Coax Memories Out of Historic Spaces
BRIGHTON, UK — Brighton Festival and HOUSE 2015, a contemporary visual arts festival, have put up their headline artist in a hotel notable for its design and feng shui.
In Brief
American Suburban Architecture and the 1980s Hardcore Bands It Housed
The Hardcore Architecture blog is using addresses to reveal, through Google Street View, the often mundane suburban architecture behind the '80s underground scene.