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This week, Kehinde Wiley and DJ Spooky join forces in Brooklyn, play Game of Thrones bingo with fellow fans, watch some anarchist art, figure out where the wild books are, explore Nordic prints, and more.
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Art
Is Now the Bluest Time in Art?
Interpreting the data of 94,526 paintings created between 1800 CE and 2000 CE, Martin Bellander, a PhD student at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden, discovered that blue has increased in art while orange has become less common.
Art
The Private Language of Painting, Revealed in Artists’ Images of Their Studios
Gagosian has done it again: produced another museum-quality show, this one devoted to images of artists’ studios, as recorded in photographs (on view at its uptown gallery) and in paintings (installed at West 21st Street).
Film
The Fine Line Between Fiction and Truth in the Art of the Reel
Real, surreal, not quite real, a spectacular con — truth is found in many forms.
Art
At the Crossroads of the World, a Dissident Cuban Artist Is Almost Heard
In the glare of the afternoon sun and the LED screens of Times Square, an unassuming woman with thick glasses and a rolling wave of gray hair stood on a soapbox and spoke, as another woman held a white dove over her shoulder.
News
Anti-Hillary Clinton Street Art Surfaces Near Her Brooklyn Campaign HQ
Within mere hours of Hillary Clinton announcing her long-anticipated bid for the 2016 presidency, anti-Clinton street art began cropping up in the vicinity of her Brooklyn campaign headquarters.
News
ISIS Video Shows Devastating Destruction of Ancient Assyria's Capital
They were removing "signs of idolatry." That's what an ISIS fighter said in a video published online Saturday.
Comics
A Comic Chat with Honus Honus of Man Man
I remember watching pianist Victor Borge perform on Sesame Street.
Art
Revisiting an 18th-Century Illuminated Islamic Manuscript
One benefit of digitization is the return to the public, if only virtually, of religious and cultural artifacts often long hidden in the collections of institutions far from their regions of origin.
Announcement
Apply Now for Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts
The Salzburg International Summer Academy of Fine Arts, founded in 1953 by Oskar Kokoschka as the “School of Vision,” is the oldest of its kind in Europe.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzk2NzAsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMzI5MjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6ODMwMzU3LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjg2NTcwNiwiZmwiOjU
Art
Recording the Insect Ecology of a Prison Reclaimed by Nature
Cell 25 in Block 9 of Philadelphia's Eastern State Penitentiary is now a cabinet of curiosities representing the animal life of this stabilized ruin.
Interview
On Leaving the Brooklyn Museum After 17 Years: An Interview with Arnold Lehman
Last September, Arnold Lehman announced that he would retire from his position as the director of the Brooklyn Museum.