Art
Designing Mobile Homes for the New Wanderers
Homeownership has been on the decline in the United States, drifting down to 64.8% in the first quarter of 2014, per the Census Bureau's report earlier this year.
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Art
A Pioneer of Color Photography Gets His Due
Danish photographer Keld Helmer-Petersen’s underknown, trailblazing series 122 Color Photographs is currently receiving its first solo show in New York, courtesy of Yossi Milo Gallery.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there's never enough camp in LA, Morton Bartlett's bizarre dolls go on display, and it's your last chance to see shows at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art (LACDA) and Jack Rutberg Gallery (plus almost your last chance to see one at Christopher Grimes Gallery).
In Brief
Seeing Art History with Machine Eyes
A paper released earlier this month by a group of Rutgers University researchers applies computer vision and machine learning to the question of artistic influence.
Books
Let Brooklyn Public Librarians Recommend Your Reading List
This month, the Brooklyn Public Library launched a free service for personalized recommendations from the people who know their books best — the librarians.
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Monoskop Releases Archive of Avant-Garde and Modernist Magazines
A collection of Anglo-European avant-garde and modernist magazines dating to the late 19th and early 20th centuries has been compiled by Monoskop.
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NASA Explores the Potential of Origami in Space
The future of space flight may be founded on the traditions of art.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, we wanted to remind you that there are a lot of exhibition you should catch before August comes to a close.
News
Cultural Destruction by Islamic State Continues with No End in Sight
Since our last report in early July, the destruction by the Islamic State has not stopped.
Books
Haida Master Carver Charles Edenshaw Finally Gets His Due
With incredible precision through a diversity of materials, Charles Edenshaw evoked the beauty of traditional Haida art at a time when this First Nations culture was on the precipice of disappearing.
Art
Waking Up a City with Public Art
ATLANTA — This summer marks the fifth anniversary of Living Walls, The City Speaks, conference, an event and organization dedicated to bringing public art and conversation to downtown Atlanta.
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Would You Ignore 101 Chalk Outlines of a Black Male Body?
Whitney V. Hunter staged a performance as protest at Union Square on Saturday, August 24. He laid down on the cobbled square and traced his silhouette 101 times in chalk.