Art
Artists Give Vaccines a Much-Needed Shot in the Arm
A new vaccination awareness campaign The Art of Saving a Life, which is funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, will be rolled out over the next month.
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Curating Design from Cradle to Grave: Maira Kalman at Cooper Hewitt
Maira Kalman Selects, one of eight inaugural shows at the newly renovated Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, features precisely what its title promises: a group of objects from the Smithsonian collections handpicked by artist, author, and designer Maira Kalman.
News
Private Giving Sustains Art Museums, Study Finds
The average museumgoer in the US, Canada, and Mexico spends $7.93 during her visit (the average museumgoer must not be in New York City), while the museum spends $53.17 on her, according to the Association of Art Museum Directors.
Interview
Making Art from the War on Terror's Deadly Paper Trail
Rajkamal Kahlon’s ongoing project Did You Kiss the Dead Body? incorporates the military autopsy reports and death certificates of detainees killed while in American custody in Iraq and Afghanistan.
In Brief
Internet Archive Offers Trip Down Memory Lane (and the Oregon Trail) with 2,400 MS-DOS Games
If you were in elementary school in the late 1980s or early 1990s, you might remember spending hours of free time playing MS-DOS computer games. Who could forget the thrill of shooting a bear on the Oregon Trail, or chasing down that crook Carmen Sandiego?
Comics
The Art of Hibernation
Some days you just gotta stay in bed.
News
France Reduces Tax on Artworks Sold by Their Makers
France just made it a little easier for artists to sell their work directly to collectors.
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Visual Tributes to the Victims of the Charlie Hebdo Massacre
Artists and designers around the world are offering their visual tributes to the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre, and we've collected some of the most poignant.
Interview
Sculpting Photographs in Play-Doh
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Virginia — Eleanor Macnair's Photographs Rendered in Play-Doh are serious fun. Whether on Tumblr, where her re-imagined photographs first appeared, or in her recently published book of the same name, their cartoonish colors and shapes dazzle the eye.
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Boston Museum Opens Time Capsule Left by Paul Revere
Imagine you were creating a time capsule that would summarize American life today. What would you put in it: A smart phone? A kindle? Maybe a few seasons of NCIS or Orange Is the New Black?
Art
How Tania Bruguera's Free Speech Performance Was Mishandled, and Misreported, in Cuba
At 3pm on Tuesday, December 30, Cuban artist Tania Bruguera's participatory performance “Tatlin’s Whisper #6” was scheduled to take place in the Plaza de la Revolución in Havana.
Opinion
The Broad Museum Is Unveiled and It Looks Like a …
LOS ANGELES — When the designs for the Broad Museum were originally announced four years ago, the reaction was generally positive. Now, they're more mixed.