Art
In Bushwick, an Exhibition Tears Down Walls Between Art and Craft
Neo-Craftivism, a group show at the Parlour Bushwick, brings together works by nine artists that dynamite the tired old boundaries separating craft and art.
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A Nighttime Journey Through Minneapolis in Search of Art
MINNEAPOLIS — How do you measure artistic success?
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Researchers Decipher the Map That May Have Guided Columbus Westward
You might call Henricus Martellus's 1491 world map — which many believe Christopher Columbus consulted before setting out on his voyage — a symbol of the limits of human knowledge.
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Political Cartoons from a Golden Age of British Satire
In late 18th-century Britain, etched cartoons and caricatures abounded, poking fun at kings, noblemen, society ladies, French revolutionaries, the institution of marriage, and countless other people and things.
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Newly Discovered Photo Offers a Glimpse of van Gogh, Gauguin, and Other Drunk Artists
While Vincent van Gogh's self-portraits were a significant part of his painting career, no confirmed photographs of the artist as an adult are known to exist.
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Death With Dignity: German Collective Reburies Deceased Migrants in Berlin
This morning in Berlin, a small crowd gathered around an open cemetery grave to pay their respects to a 60-year-old Syrian refugee.
Books
Book Designs That Approach Reading as a Creative Act
When searching for a book to give his five-year-old son in 1945, Italian artist Bruno Munari was frustrated by the standard fairytale narratives and structured plots available.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: The British Library provided free online access to all 239 issues of feminist zine Spare Rib (1972–93), Vice hired Pussy Riot's Nadezhda Tolokonnikova as a columnist, and Israel's first museum devoted to contemporary Arab art opened.
Books
Turning a Historical Village into a Place for Urban Dialogue
For three weeks in the fall of 2013, a 25-acre heritage village in Ontario was transformed by over 30 artists into a small city of installations questioning lines between rural and urban, past and future.
Performance
Human Performers and Toddler-Size Robots, Dancing Side by Side
This is the year of the robot, starting with the movie Ex Machina and filtering down to the performing arts, which have seen a spate of humans dancing with robots in touching pas de deux.
Art
The Kalman Family's Language of Looking
"Anything becomes interesting if you look at it long enough," Gustave Flaubert wrote in a letter.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of international art fairs now held each year = 180 (compared to 55 in 2000)