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What ISIS Destroys, Why, and Why We Must Document It
The destruction at the Mosul Museum raises questions about why certain items were destroyed, while others were spared.
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A Dying Wish to See Rembrandt Paintings, Fulfilled
After hours this week at the Rijksmuseum's Late Rembrandt exhibition, which focuses on the artist's final years, three terminally ill patients viewed the paintings in solitude.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: Hans Haacke's "Gift Horse" was unveiled in London's Trafalgar Square, the Smithsonian and Palace of Versailles banned selfie sticks, and a 68-year-old German pensioner commenced his search for the long lost "Amber Room."
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Dioramas Reveal the Desertification of Mongolia
According to a 2008 survey, more than 1,200 rivers, 2,600 lakes, and 93,700 springs in Mongolia have disappeared, partly thanks to industrial mining.
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A Haunting Installation Transforms the Phillips Collection
WASHINGTON, DC — The main building of the Phillips Collection, the oldest modern art museum in America, is a sprawling, neo-Georgian affair, buckling beneath the weight of its dark, mahogany décor.
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An Era-Defining 1930s Mural of American Excess and Industry Is Revived
After its acquisition in 2012, the Metropolitan Museum of Art is debuting Thomas Hart Benton's 1930s "America Today" mural not as a painting, but as a room.
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There's Nothing Sexier Than an Independent Art Fair
"Viewer discretion advised: graphic sexual imagery," reads some floor text that nobody seemed to notice or bother to read this afternoon as they entered Mendes Wood DM's booth at the Independent.
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Ephemera from the East German Underground
Through zines sneaked hand-to-hand and punk performances in private apartments, an underground art movement formed beyond the censors in East Germany.
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Dubai Is Building a Museum of the Future
Robot dogs, humanoid giants, holograms, and laser lights. That's what "the future" looks like, at least according to architectural renderings recently released by the United Arab Emirates for its impending Museum of the Future.
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From Pulp to Pop, Seven Centuries of Book Art
PARIS — Pliure (meaning “fold” in French) is a book-based small show, tastefully curated by Paulo Pires do Vale, about the artistic metamorphosis of books (those folded paper things).
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A Conference Considers the Philosophy of Street Art
Today, a three-day conference titled Philosophy of Street Art: Art in and of the Street begins at Pratt Institute and New York University.
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Curating a Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, Mich. — The centuries-old tradition of the Wunderkammer is enjoying a resurgence of late, with cabinets of curiosities on display from the Chazen Museum of Art to Gagosian Gallery, and vitrine artists like Edmund de Waal and Joseph Beuys being hailed as champions of the medium.