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5 Trendsetting Video Games from IndieCade East
This past weekend, the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens hosted Indiecade East 2015 for its third year of independent games, talks, and community networking.
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In Brief
Your Mission, Should You Choose to Accept It, Is to Read This Book in 24 Hours
Increasingly, the simple act of reading may not be flashy enough to compete with televised competitors.
Books
A Contemporary Codex Teaches Children About Migration
Migrant appropriates the vertical, accordion-bound form of a pre-Colombian codex to tell of a Central American family’s freight train journey to the United States.
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Larry Sultan's Faux-tographs
LOS ANGELES — Larry Sultan: Here and Home at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is the first large-scale retrospective of the American photographer, who died in 2009.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, there's a chance to preview six experimental operas, East of Borneo's latest Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, seductive cinematic paintings by Judith Eisler, and much more.
In Brief
Nearly 1,000 UK Artists Commit to Cultural Boycott of Israel
Some 1,000 British artists have signed on to a cultural boycott of Israel, pledging their "support [for] the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality."
News
UN Security Council Takes Aim at ISIS Antiquities Trafficking
Last week the United Nations Security Council adopted a new resolution to curb the trade of looted antiquities from Iraq and Syria. UN Security Council Resolution 2199 prohibits the trade of artifacts illegally removed from Syria since 2011 and Iraq since 1990.
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Make Art in Italy: MFA, MA, Post-Bac, Venice Biennale, Semester, and Summer Abroad Programs
Studio Art Centers International in Florence, Italy offers NASAD accredited MFA in Studio Art (Painting or Drawing) [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NzQ0NzYsImF0IjoyMCwiYnQiOjAsImNtIjoyMTUzOTYsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6NzM4MDgwLCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjc2OTE2NywiZmwiOjQ4MDMzNCwiaXAiOiI1NC4yMDQuMTI5LjE0Iiw
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Peter Zumthor's Minimalist Museum for Zinc Mining Takes Shape in Norway
Set to open in the summer of 2016, a sleek museum designed by Swiss architect Peter Zumthor for a Norwegian zinc mine has been over a decade in the making, although parts of the attraction are already in place.
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ArtRx NYC
This week may be freezing in New York, but things are heating up in the art world with a symposium on Nazis looted art, the importance of Brooklyn painting, the Chinese Lunar New York, bootlegged art, and more.
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A Digital Waterfall That Illuminates the Threat of Air Pollution
Artist Andrea Polli's "Particle Falls" is a waterfall of light that changes colors from blue to flaming reds and yellows based on real time air quality data.
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Painting as Protest on Mexico's Walls
In the 1920s and ’30s, Mexican muralists like Diego Rivera and José Clemente Orozco painted murals that powerfully illustrated the issues of their day. Today, street artists rule the nation’s walls.