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Smithsonian Acquires Video Game So Atrocious It Was Buried in the Desert
One of the most disastrous video games in history is now part of the Smithsonian Institution.
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Major Vivian Maier Collector Sells Holdings to Toronto Gallery
Collector Jeffrey Goldstein has sold the bulk of his Vivian Maier collection to Toronto's Stephen Bulger Gallery, largely removing himself from the ongoing legal saga surrounding the photographer's estate.
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Will Galapagos's Move to Detroit Be a Blessing or a Curse?
I grew up in the Metro Detroit area as a dancer and performer who, inevitably it seems, ended up in Brooklyn a few days after graduating college. Is it time to turn around?
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — Although it's Christmas week, there's still a lot of art to be seen here in LA. Catch a show of longboards from a surf/skate icon before it closes, help raise money for zinefest and a local noise space, or watch Jennifer Moon and her dog Mr. Snuggles on closed circuit TVs.
Opinion
Performance and Para-Fiction: Jennifer Kidwell on Playing Donelle Woolford
Donelle Woolford, the fictitious artist whose work has become a collaboration between Joe Scanlan, Abigail Ramsay, and me, has done an extraordinary thing. Her existence exhorts the public to rally and come to her defense, but has simultaneously exposed its inability to do so.
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ArtRx NYC
It's Christmas this week, so our suggestions include a Christmas Day visit to the Jewish Museum, a midnight screening of The Shining, a children's storytime at the Morgan, a show of 1970s and '80s NYC art ephemera, and much more.
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The 20 Most Powerless People in the Art World: 2014 Edition
While other publications sing the praises of the rich and powerful, we like to look at those who are largely overlooked in order to understand the real state of the art world and its discontents.
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The Fight for Japan's Modernist Architecture
Tokyo's skyline has been increasingly crowded by construction cranes since Japan's winning bid to host the 2020 Olympic Games.
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A Virtual Island of Algorithmically Generated Art Museums
Manhattan may have an okay assortment of cultural institutions, but in Secret Habitat, a free game by Manchester-based indie video game developer Strangethink, users navigate an island that's home to 99 small museums.
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Earthquake-Proofing Michelangelo's Statue of David
After more than 250 small earthquakes shook Italy last week, the Italian Ministry of Culture announced it will spend €200,000 (~$245,000) on an anti-seismic base to secure Michelangelo's statue of David, the Agence France-Presse reported.
Opinion
Architecture Blogger Uses Terrible Rape Metaphor
You might think, in the year 2014, that the distastefulness of casual rape metaphors would be obvious. But you'd be wrong! In a blog post published today on the website Arch2o, Ivan Sergejev shares 20 "tips" for being a successful architect, based on his experience interning at the Office for Metrop
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Historic Home Dumps $100 Million Cézanne
The Edsel and Eleanor Ford House in Grosse Pointe Shores, Michigan, a wealthy suburb north of Detroit, sold a Paul Cézanne painting for $100 million last year, the historic home's 2013 tax forms recently revealed.