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The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.
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Imaginative, aesthetic, historically fixated, and cosmically liberated, afrofuturism could be subject to low budgets, racism, sexism, and indifference, and still count itself a master of radiant ideas.
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Years a message in a bottle was floating in the Baltic Sea until its discovery by a fisherman = 101
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Two Cézanne sketches found by conservators at the Barnes Foundation earlier this year went on view at the collection in Philadelphia today.
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KINDERHOOK, NY — Meleko Mokgosi’s eponymous solo show, well installed at The School, Jack Shainman gallery's outpost in Kinderhook, New York, will hit your sweet spot if you're in the mood to see some colossal paintings in an atrium-like space that can compete with Dia:Beacon (but with paintings).
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This week in art news: The lease for Warhol's first studio sold for $13,750, the United States Postal Service botched a stamp commemorating Maya Angelou, and the Tate released its third Minecraft map.
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The board of trustees of the Cooper Union has offered not to renew the contract of the school's current president, Jamshed Bharucha, if it would help bring an end to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into the university's management.
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Next month, 28 contemporary American artists will infiltrate the homes of the two artists who are the "physical cornerstone of American art," as co-curator Stephen Hannock puts it.
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It's fun to imagine what an archaeologist of the future might make of the found notes — including shopping lists, personal reflections, and angry scribbles — currently on view at Stour Space Gallery in London.
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A golden reindeer gallops across a vast checkerboard while a grotesque UFO flies overhead.
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PARIS — Bruce Nauman at the Fondation Cartier is a hip, hodgepodge mini-retrospective, curated by Hervé Chandè, that sets an array of Nauman’s works against each other, ranging from the '80s to the rather recent.
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According to an Italian Egyptologist, one of the Egyptian Museum of Cairo's most prized ancient paintings could be a 19th-century archeological forgery.