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Reviving the Fight to Save a British Brutalist Masterpiece
At the 11th hour, a British heritage organization has renewed a bid to save a major Brutalist building from destruction.
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For #MuseumWeek, Institutions Share Their Secrets Online
What are museums hiding in their pasts and inside their collection storage vaults? Some of those secrets (or just lesser-known facts) are being shared by institutions around the world this Museum Week through the hashtag #secretsmw.
Art
The Men Who Manufacture Scientific Doubt
Merchants of Doubt, the latest documentary film by director Robert Kenner (Food, Inc., among others) uses a magician's sleight of hand as an allegory for the conning of the American public by a handful of corporate lobbyists and public-relations mercenaries.
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The Long Museum Presents 'Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition'
To mark the first anniversary of its inauguration, the Long Museum (West Bund) will host the grand opening of Xu Zhen Solo Exhibition on March 28, 2015.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6Nzg0NDgsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMjU5NzQsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6ODA3NTA0LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjg0MTA3MSwiZmwiOjU0M
Art
Africa's Overlooked Modernist Architecture from an Era of Independence
Futuristic pyramids and boxy concrete forms rose up with the modernist architecture of Africa in the 1960s and '70s, although beyond the continent the radical forms aren't widely recognized.
Comics
The Books I Have Loved
(These just happen to be written by women.)
Art
A Native American Painter's Modernist Exploits, Recognized at Last
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Modern Spirit: The Art of George Morrison, now on view at the Minnesota History Center in Saint Paul, Minnesota, is a disarmingly beautiful exhibition.
Art
Last of China's Lotus Feet Women
As the last generation of Chinese women with bound feet ages into their final decades, Jo Farrell set out to photograph the survivors of this brutal beauty tradition.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the post-AIDS body, the conservatives are trying to change higher education in North Carolina, Saudi Arabia is destroying its heritage, white fragility, skin tone in comics, cat haikus, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Knight
Spanish investigators report they may have discovered the remains of Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, better known as Cervantes, the author of Don Quixote, in a convent in Madrid.
Music
The Electronic Composer in the Modern Age
The Computer Controlled Acoustic Instruments pt2 EP, out since January, is the second Aphex Twin release in a recent period of renewed activity.
Art
Suzan Frecon’s Patience Should Be Rewarded
The turning point for Suzan Frecon happened in 1989, when she saw the exhibition of the Swedish artist and mystic, Hilma af Klint: Secret Pictures at PS1.