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Philadelphia Scores a Standout Early Duchamp
The Philadelphia Museum of Art (PMA) is already home to the world's richest collection of Marcel Duchamp's work, but it just added two very uncharacteristic pieces to its holdings.
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Sharing Amateur Photographers' Shots from the New York World's Fairs
With the ostentatious pavilions gleaming during the day, and the fountains and futuristic statuary illuminated at night, the World's Fairs in New York were a photographer's dream.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there's a retrospective of early work from an LA conceptual art pioneer, a talk on art and porn, an experimental performance in a private home, a French New Wave film with live harp soundtrack, and more!
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Tom Dale's Pursuit of Nothingness
SOUTHAMPTON, UK — The British artist Tom Dale works at a time when speed has lost its innocence.
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Art Students Reconstruct the Lost Faces of Unidentified Crime Victims
Last month, students in the Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) made faces for 11 anonymous skulls belonging to unidentified victims of crimes.
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Cyberfeminists Go Deep on Big Data, Privacy, and Surveillance
In mid-December, 12 hackers, artists, coders, and activists gathered to tackle issues of privacy, surveillance, anonymity, and big data as they manifest in our society.
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The Real-Life Applications of "Post-Internet" Art
LONDON — The best works on view in this seven-artist selection are "post-internet" experiments (sorry) that probe the ways in which the internet has reconfigured, and continues to reconfigure, such charged arenas as identity, surveillance, and labor.
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ArtRx NYC
After a week of snow, you probably want to shake off the flakes and do something fun.
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Why Is No One Talking About Libya's Cultural Destruction?
Over the past few years, Libya has been making archaeology headlines not for the exciting new discoveries there, but for the ruthless cultural destruction.
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Radicalize Your Garden with a Noam Chomsky Gnome
Because really, what better way to express affection for your loved ones than by buying them punny, philosophy-related lawn ornaments?
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Panther-Riding Drunks May Be Michelangelo's Only Surviving Metal Sculptures
A pair of bronze statues of nude revelers riding panthers are the only surviving works in metal by Michelangelo, a new study claims.
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Performers Shower Tate Britain with Fake Pounds Over Oil Money Ties
LONDON — It’s 10am on the last Saturday of January, and Tate Britain is predictably sleepy. The museum has just opened its doors for the day, and a modest coterie of visitors treads lightly to preserve the morning hush.