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The Buried Artwork at the New Whitney Museum
While some 600 works in the Whitney Museum of American Art's collection bask in the light of the new building's wide windows and roomy galleries, one piece is hidden within the walls.
In Brief
A Website Translates Words into Drum Beats
Have you ever wondered what your name, or the words “Anna Karenina,” would sound like as a sequence of beats?
Art
The Surprisingly Improvisational Sounds of Automatic Music
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — Musicians throughout the ages have wrestled with the question of creative control, and in our modern age, some have found an answer in technology.
Books
Portraits of Afghani Women Imprisoned for "Moral" Crimes
"The female prison population in Afghanistan overwhelmingly consists of individuals who are serving 5-to-15-year sentences for moral crimes," Gabriela Maj writes in Almond Garden: Portraits from the Women's Prisons in Afghanistan, out next month from Daylight Books.
Performance
Turning a Classic Soviet Sci-Fi Flick into a Live Performance
Layered with live performances, multimedia feeds, and casts in which everyone is an actor (including the cameramen and musicians), Doris Mirescu's plays channel the model of the fun house.
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Fox News Bizarrely Censors $179M Picasso Painting
Apparently the price paid for Picasso's "Women of Algiers" (1955) on Monday is not the most obscene thing about it.
Art
Announcing the Speakers for Lost Lectures Two in NYC, June 5th: Blonde Redhead, Jon Ronson, Josephine Decker, and More!
The date and secret location have been set and we’re now ready to reveal this year’s Lost Lectures speakers!
Art
Planting Frida Kahlo's Botanical Paradise in the Bronx
Plants and flowers appeared throughout Frida Kahlo's paintings, and although interpreting her art regularly evokes her biography of illness, injury, pain, and tumultuous love, the first exhibition to examine her work from a botanical perspective opens this week at a garden.
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School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Summer 2015 Information Sessions
The Division of Continuing Education Information Sessions provide you with the chance to spend an evening with some of New York City’s top creative talent
In Brief
Van Gogh in Virtual Reality
Orbs of orange paint suggested the light of the lamps past midnight in Vincent van Gogh's 1888 "Le Café de nuit" (The Night Café) and in a new virtual reality take on his painting of the Café de la Gare in Arles, France, they come to life with radiating colors.
Art
The Strange Union of Contemporary Art and the Hudson River School
HUDSON, NY — River Crossings, the recently opened show up at the historic Thomas Cole House and Olana, Frederic Edwin Church's architectural ode to Orientalism, over-promises and under-delivers.