In Brief

A Family Reunion for Magna Carta Survivors on Their 800th Birthday

To celebrate the Magna Carta’s big year, put on your party hat and check out the four surviving copies of the original manuscript.

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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.

In Brief

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.