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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?
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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.
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City Initiative Will Measure Staff and Leadership Diversity at New York Museums
Diversity, nebulous though it is, has long been something museums have tried to maximize among their visitors, but a new initiative being launched by New York's Department of Cultural Affairs aims to measure the diversity of staff and board members at the city's cultural institutions.
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Four Cartoonists Among 12 Dead in Attack on French Satirical Magazine
Four of France's most highly regarded cartoonists are among the 12 people murdered in an attack at the Paris office of the magazine Charlie Hebdo on the morning of January 7.
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Emergent Digital Practices: Innovative MA and MFA Degrees in Denver Colorado
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Hale Woodruff's Vibrant Murals Immortalize African-American History
If you've seen Steven Spielberg’s movie Amistad, you already know this story: in 1838, a 25-year-old enslaved Mendeian named Cinque led a successful revolt aboard the Spanish slave ship La Amistad.
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Thoughts on Stefan Simchowitz from Berlin
BERLIN — He’s back, but he never truly went away. Art collector/dealer/advisor/“flipper” Stefan Simchowitz, by virtue of a long exposé in the New York Times Magazine on Sunday, is again on the lips and fingertips of artists, art pros, and now mainstream culture vultures everywhere.
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Unwrapping the Ancient Egyptian Practice of Animal Mummification
Millions of animal mummies — some elaborately dressed, others plainly wrapped — were buried by ancient Egyptians and the exact reason for the death ritual is an ongoing archaeological mystery.
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Learn About the Graduate Programs at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA)
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The Oulipo Group's Generative Word Games
PARIS — Members of the Oulipo movement play with generative poetic combinations and permutations. Their interests lie at the conceptual nexus of algorithmic art software and remix culture at large, combining all forms of hypertext hybrids, experimental word swarms, and shared authorship projects.