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Painting with Data: A Conversation with Lev Manovich
As big data has infiltrated our everyday lives, Lev Manovich and his collaborators have explored the data of everyday life as a window on social transformation.
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Goblins, Ghosts, and Ghouls in Japanese Prints
If you want to hear a terrifying ghost story this Halloween, look to Japan.
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The Politics of Prisons: Ai Weiwei at Alcatraz
SAN FRANCISCO — Stepping into a dingy and suffocatingly small cell, you're immersed in an intense soundscape of horns and the chanting of Tibetan monks. It’s overwhelming, and as the noise builds and bounces around the cold cement room, you wonder if this is akin to the feeling of being trapped insi
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Arkansas, California, Maryland, Oregon, and Germany.
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Flash Back to 1991 with Access to the First US Website
Now you can go back to where the World Wide Web started in the United States with the country's first website. Launched in December of 1991, the website for the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory had little more than text and a few links.
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Elementary and Simple: Christopher Williams at MoMA
"The art context is one of the few places where speculative thought and disinterested observation can still happen," the artist and Kunstakademie Düsseldorf professor Christopher Williams has said. This is a useful delusion.
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Beyond the Igloo: Mario Merz in London
LONDON — Among the few Italian contemporary art movements that made a mark on the international scene in 20th century, Arte Povera is probably the most interesting.
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Assessing the Gender Gap in Architecture
Here's your daily dose of gender gap reality: although more women seem to be going into architecture, parity between the sexes remains far off in the field.
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Freestyling Animals and Signifying Rappers
LOS ANGELES — Behind every face there is a mask. In Ray Anthony Barrett’s solo exhibition Word is Bond at Diane Rosenstein Fine Arts in Hollywood, the artist investigates American cultural identities through the use of anthropomorphized masks.
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Master’s Programs in Art Education at NYU Steinhardt
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Christie's Goes Prix Fixe with eBay Pricing Model
An upcoming sale at Christie's London titled "Buy or Bid" will allow patrons to purchase lots at a fixed price, the auction house announced in a release.
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Savvy Miniaturist Mints Pop Culture Portraits on Coins
Talk about cultural currency! The Sao Paulo-born, Frankfurt-based artist and designer Andre Levy has earned himself a huge online following and an exhibition at Stew Gallery in Norwich, England with his project Tales You Lose, for which he turns the portraits of monarchs and political heroes adornin