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Reconstructing Managua Before the 1972 Earthquake
MANAGUA — Most people will advise you, on touching down in Managua, to rent a car and drive as fast out of the Nicaraguan capital as you can.
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Display cases for the 300 artifacts in Vodou: Sacred Powers of Haiti at the Field Museum in Chicago = 0 (to respect the belief that Vodou objects should not be encased)
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Museums Join Campaign to Preserve Land Art Opus
In 1972, the Land Art pioneer Michael Heizer began buying up tracts of land near Nevada's Garden and Coal valleys.
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Artworks that Clock Working Life
BERLIN — Time & Motion: Redefining Working Life, a tightly curated exhibition currently on show at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW) in Berlin, is small but packs a real punch.
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Celebrating Photographers of Color and the Collectives That Have Nurtured Them
"And who else is there?" A staff member at a well-known photo festival and I were nearing the end of an awkward conversation.
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World's Largest Space for Contemporary Glass Art Lets in the Light
CORNING, NY — This Friday, a luminous new wing of the Corning Museum of Glass opens for the display of contemporary glass art and its molten creation.
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Your Concise Guide to the March 2015 Greenpoint Gallery Night
Now that the snow has finally melted and we've all begun to thaw — unless it snows again today?! — it’s time to make the trek out to North Brooklyn for 2015’s first Greenpoint Gallery Night, of which Hyperallergic is a proud media sponsor.
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Our View from the Cosmic Shore: Early Modern Interpretations of Celestial Events
When Milton was writing Paradise Lost in the 17th century, a comet grazed through the sky, inspiring the English poet to describe how Satan "stood Unterrified, and like a comet burn'd."
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Obama's Presidential Library May Gobble Up Historic Chicago Parkland
Is it wrong to commandeer space intended for public enjoyment to bolster a political legacy?
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The Mentor and His Protégé: Frank Lloyd Wright and Fay Jones in Arkansas
Fay Jones was still a boy in Arkansas when he first heard of Frank Lloyd Wright.
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Reviewing the Responses to MoMA's Divisive Painting Survey
As news of art fairs and Bjork took the spotlight earlier this month, I lingered on the Museum of Modern Art’s The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, up through early April.
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Opening March 20 in NYC, 'La Sapienza' Tells a Story of Love, Architecture, and Inspiration
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