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The Work of Four Seriously Funny Women Artists
ATLANTA — Pratfall Tramps at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center is an exhibition that works by sleight of hand.
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Glasses Give the Color-Blind a Fuller View of the Spectrum
Originally setting out to design safety glasses for use during laser surgeries, materials scientist Don McPherson instead designed a lens that enables color-blind wearers to see the full light spectrum.
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Boston Unveils Finalists in Competition to Retrofit City for Rising Waters
Following on the heels of New York, London, and many other urban centers, Boston is the latest city to envision how best to manage the certainty of rising water levels due to global warming.
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Landmark African Art Exhibit Is Reassembled, but Mystery of Its Origin Remains
When a dozen weather-worn wood sculptures from southeastern Nigeria debuted in a Paris gallery in 1974, they were radically different from any African art that had been exhibited in the West.
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The Seduction of Screens and Neon at Night
BALTIMORE — Around seven in the evening, dusky pink light and car headlights from North Avenue ricochet off the glass walls of the KAGRO building, adding an extra layer of nuance to Victoria Fu’s Bubble Over Green.
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A Meditative Hunting Trip in an Interactive Story
Blood-soaked snow and the waxy green of conifers color the pensive landscape of The Last Hunt, an interactive story produced by the Digital Studio at the National Film Board of Canada (NFB).
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A Tale of Two Exhibitions and the Politics of Forgetting
BARCELONA — The study of the history of exhibitions allows us to “shuffle the deck of art history,” as Robert Rosenblum wrote in his essay for the 2000 exhibition 1900: Art at the Cross-Roads.
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What Do You Call a Dinosaur Who Draws? Picassaurus
I just spent last week doing events for my kids book at schools across the East Coast.
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Artists Visit a Spiritual Medium and Make Work About It
Eight artists spent time in psychic sessions with a medium before evoking their experiences in paintings dripping with texture, a video of a morphing eye, and a curious dollhouse.
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Alec Soth's Photographs Mine the Margins of the US
SAN FRANCISCO — Alec Soth’s latest multi-year investigation of life in the hinterlands of the United States is a refined version of the now venerable notion of the photographic road trip.
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30,000 NYPD Crime Photographs Will Go Online
From contorted corpses splayed on the sidewalk to errant streetcars lodged in storefronts, the New York Police Department has photographed crime scenes almost since the technology was available.
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Family Portraits Left Incomplete
HO CHI MINH CITY — Trong Gia Nguyen was only three years old when he was crammed into a Renault Dauphine with 13 other family members and driven to the Saigon docks on April 30, 1975.