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A Terra-cotta Antiquity that Arrived at a Turkish Museum by Mail
On August 26, the Antalya Museum in Konyaaltı, Turkey, received an unexpected package from Vienna.
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Boston’s #RenoirSucksAtPainting Protesters Say Exhibiting the Impressionist Is “Aesthetic Terrorism"
Another day, another protest at a museum. Not against labor conditions, the treatment of museum staff, or kimonos, however, but this time against Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the over-4,000 paintings the French painter executed over his lifetime, and their prominence in museums around the world.
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Witnessing the Passage of Time with Detritus and a Crumbling "David"
The elevator opens onto a dark, shrouded foyer. A few steps in and one encounters quite unexpectedly the large, gloomy front room of Argentine artist Adrián Villar Rojas’s first solo exhibition, Two Suns, at the Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
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Diagrammatic Paintings of Curious Contraptions
Henry Gunderson first made waves in his hometown of San Francisco a couple years ago with eccentric, surreal paintings of humanoid animals that I recall often stumbling upon on various image-sharing websites.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, you can join us for our Decolonizing Museums discussion at Livestream, attend Brooklyn's underground performance art fest, welcome Jim Shaw to the New Museum, or listen to "genius" Nicole Eisenman talk about her work.
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A Hidden Estonian "Forest Library" for Listening to Nature
Around 50% of Estonia is covered in forest.
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The Magic of Light and Shadow in Asian Puppet Theater
LISBON — Asian shadow theater is catnip for those with energetic imaginations.
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Catalogue of Nazi Leader's Looted Art Collection Published for the First Time
At the end of World War II, French soldiers confiscated a curious handwritten book from Nazi leader Hermann Göring. It listed every artwork Göring claimed to own.
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Illuminating the Wonders of Paris's Nuit Blanche
PARIS — It was nearly 2am and I was watching snow fall on the abandoned railroad tracks of the Petite Ceinture.
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Detroit Artists Take a Hammer to Traditional Ceramics
DETROIT — These days Detroit is a hotbed of craft-based forms revisited.
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Big Brother Is Bugging Ai Weiwei
“There’s always a surprise,” Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei wrote on Instagram yesterday, captioning a photograph of a surveillance device he found hidden in his studio after returning to Beijing from his first trip overseas in four years.