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In His Final Opera, a Composer Presents a Divided Self-Portrait
The late composer Robert Ashley (1930–2014) produced some of the most difficult music of the 20th century — and now also of the 21st.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: Thieves steal Lichtenstein from Simpsons co-creator's foundation, seller sues for money from van Gogh auction, and drug-buying art robot is set free.
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Scholar Discovers Hidden Annotations in a Welsh Manuscript
Ghostly images have been discovered in one of the UK's most important medieval manuscripts.
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Over 300 Artists Link Up in an International Game of Telephone
In Telephone, an online exhibition organized by the Satellite Collective, a web connecting 315 artists in 42 countries was structured around this Breton fisherman's prayer: "Oh god thy sea is so great and my boat is so small."
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The Tribeca Film Festival's Short Forays into Art
The art-centric short films at the 2015 Tribeca Film Festival include two documentaries about very unusual artists, an enigmatic science-fiction drama, and a ballet set in a Parisian housing project.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, get in touch with your feminist side with a discussion of women in print and a lecture on Georgia O'Keeffe. Or go for enlightenment, by way of a sacred space at the Queens Museum or an overnight philosophy marathon. Whatever you do, don't miss a chance for new discoveries at the Brooklyn
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The New Urgency of Jacob Lawrence
The discussion used MoMA’s current Jacob Lawrence exhibition as a jumping-off point for considering a plethora of intersections between art, politics, and social justice.
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Capturing Interior and Outside Worlds in Just One Shot
Marja Pirilä has been fascinated with the camera obscura process since the 1980s, when she worked extensively with pinhole cameras and even built a few cabin-sized contraptions.
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An Artist Embarks on an Impossible Project for Tamir Rice
CLEVELAND — Artist Michael Rakowitz is working with the city of Cleveland on an unattainable goal: the removal of the color orange from the city.
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An Archaeological Twist in a Florida Fight Against High-Speed Rail
Eastern Floridians who have long been fighting a high-speed rail development in their region claim in a lawsuit that it would damage two "prehistoric sites of cultural importance."
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After Three Decades of Obscurity, Helvetica's Successor Reemerges
When Haas Unica was introduced in 1980, it was intended as an illustrious successor to the highly popular sans-serif Helvetica.
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Front to Back, Top to Bottom, a New Book Series Reimagines How We Read
SYNAPSE curators Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin set out to investigate the Anthropocene hypothesis: that humanity’s impact on the earth has been so great that it necessitates a new geological age.