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Lively Artworks That Make Room for the Mind
There is this one particular color of paint that appears in many of the paintings by Etel Adnan on view right now at Galerie Lelong in New York.
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This week in art news: Christo unveiled plans for a new project, two publications explore Le Corbusier's links to fascism, a trove of WPA art was found in a library, and Rockwell's "Rosie the Riveter" passed away.
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Student Accused of Rape by Mattress-Carrying Artist Sues Columbia University
A student has filed a lawsuit against Columbia University, its board of trustees, Columbia President Lee Bollinger, and art professor Jon Kessler, over Emma Sulkowicz's senior thesis project.
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Sum of the Arts
Years the Hubble Space Telescope has been photographing the universe from above our atmosphere = 25
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An Exhibition of Art Seized During Corruption Raids in Brazil
A Brazilian museum has opened an exhibition of art seized amid the largest corruption scandal in its country's history.
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Explore a Surreal Performance Parody of Google Street View
Over the course of six weeks and with a cast of hundreds, a Belgian theater company seized control of over six miles of streets in the city of Mons to stage surreal spectacles including flying kayakers, crowds of angels, and a taxidermy deer transforming into a donkey.
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Art X Detroit Lives Up to the City’s Vibrant Cultural Life
DETROIT — Trying to notice the impact of the Kresge Foundation on the arts in Detroit is like a fish trying to notice water.
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Kenyan Government Denounces the Country's Venice Biennale Pavilion
Outrage had been growing within Kenya's artistic community ever since it was announced that only one Kenyan had been selected to represent the country at this year's biennale.
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Humans Swallowed by the Extreme Geometry of Architecture
The work of Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar shows a striking mix of vibrant colors and stark architectural geometry.
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Using Fiction to Map the Emotional Geography of Victorian London
The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in order to compose concentrations of dread or happiness.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum's New Building
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.