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Frank Lloyd Wright's West Coast Experiment, Ramping Up to the Guggenheim
Before the quarter-mile ramp of New York’s Guggenheim Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright envisioned a smaller slope on the West Coast.
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Interview
Plotting Your Favorite Novels Visually
Matthew Jockers, a professor at the University of Nebraska, is at work compiling data from novels in an attempt to determine if they share a set of common plots.
Announcement
SVA Art Practice: A Low-Residency, Interdisciplinary Approach to an MFA
The art world is not a market. It’s a conversation. MFA Art Practice at the School of Visual Arts is a low-residency, interdisciplinary graduate program that aims to create a global community and conversation within the arts.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTc0OSwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI6MCwiY20iOjIx
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The Political Poseurs of Contemporary Russian Art
It is always a thankless task to review a show against the backdrop of current political events.
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Nirvana for Lovers of Victoriana
LONDON — A Victorian Obsession is a touring exhibition of the largest collection of Victorian painting outside Great Britain: 52 works of consistently staggering technical quality and significance, owned by Mexican businessman Juan Antonio Pérez Simón.
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A Bloody Video Game Ode on a Grecian Urn
Apotheon brings the classical world of ancient Greek pottery to life as a full-length animated video game.
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The New Museum's Triennial Surrounds the Audience with Too Much Art
The New Museum's third triennial, Surround Audience, is not nearly as immersive as its title suggests, and it sabotages many of the most conventional two-dimensional and sculptural works on view.
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The Fantastical Pulp Art of 1960s and '70s Mexico
The lurid art created for paperbacks in the 1960s and '70s includes a cat man superhero surrounded by feral felines, a woman fleeing a cop while cradling a piglet, and a blonde vixen looking back in shock as a skeleton delivers her a letter.
Performance
Laughing (and Crying, and Laughing Again) About Slavery
Aside from innovative and well-executed visual effects, what makes Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s play An Octoroon so remarkable is the unceasing state of anxiety in which you’re held from start to finish.
Opinion
Microsoft HoloLens Renders the Internet in 3D
The cyberpunk literary tradition anticipated a series of real-world technical developments in which the digital and the spatial converge.
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The International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management (ILPVAM): Two Intensive Modules in Bilbao and New York
The International Leadership Program in Visual Arts Management - ILPVAM is an advanced art and business executive certificate program offered by three leading institutions with specialties in the visual arts, global markets, and business.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6ODgzOCwiYXQiOjIwLCJidCI
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British Museum's Display of Aboriginal Artifacts Prompts New Demands for Their Return
There are only a handful of bark art examples from the Dja Dja Wurrung in Australia, and they're leagues away from their place of origin. A new exhibition of indigenous art of Australia at the British Museum, which holds these artifacts in their collections, will finally bring them back to the South