Art
Making Sense of the Legal Battle Over Vivian Maier’s Artworks
A legal battle has ensued over who has legal rights to an artist’s photographic negatives.
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The Folly of Performance
Performance art doesn't have to be so heavy. It can be light, like diving head-first into the trash, in Tamar Ettun's case.
Interview
Helping Syrian Filmmakers Tell the Human Narratives of Conflict
Among the films produced by one Syrian NGO: one of the first documentaries to look at the early effects that ISIS was having on residents of eastern Syria.
Comics
The Essential First Step in Any Creative Process
All you need is a giant slingshot!
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ArtRx NYC
This week, new shows by Morris Louis, Saul Steinberg, and R. Luke DuBois, a feminist manifesto, Greenpoint Gallery Night, and much more.
In Brief
Marble Caryatids and Panel Discovered in Greece's Largest Tomb
Archeologists have unearthed two lifelike caryatids and a large colored marble panel in a tomb in northern Greece — a find described by Greek Prime Minister Antonis Samaras as "extremely significant.”
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Opinion
British Museum Wants Someone to Update Its Website for Free [UPDATED]
The British Museum is a flagship cultural institution with 2013 expenditures of £115.4 million (~$186.2 million). It is also, according to a current online listing, seeking free help from experienced coders in the guise, naturally, of an internship or "student placement" with its "Digital Team."
Opinion
Advice from Jenny Holzer for the NFL and Ray Rice
What happens when you combine Ray Rice, football, a meme, and Jenny Holzer?
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Joseph Gross Gallery Presents Ted Lawson's "The Map is Not The Territory"
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Albrecht Dürer, Apocalyptic Self-Publishing Pioneer
A 1511 edition of Dürer's Apocalypsis (The Apocalypse) is just one of the many literary and artistic achievements in Marks of Genius: Treasures of the Bodleian Library now at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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The Pitfalls of Art as Therapy
CHICAGO — Invented in 2011, Zachary Cahill’s USSA 2012 began as a one-off joke, a half-sketched theoretical future where America was reshaped as a socialist nation.
Art
Early 20th-Century Kite Cameras, the Pre-Drones
"The hitherto impossible in photography is our specialty," was the motto of early 20th-century photographer George R. Lawrence's Chicago studio. Among Lawrence's great experiments was the use of kites for aerial photography.