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The Eiffel Tower Gets a Facelift
“I ought to be jealous,” engineer Gustave Eiffel said, after his 1,070-foot iron lattice tower was erected in late-19th-century Paris. “She is more famous than I am.”
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An Excursion to the Past as You've Never Imagined It
With a mission to show that the past wasn't always as we now envision it to be, Chris Wild's Retronaut has been compiling curiosities of vintage photography and other archives online.
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Artists Mobilize to Capture Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement in Pen and Ink
Art has played a role in the Umbrella Movement since day one, from public art installations like Stand By You: ‘Add Oil’ Machine to a Facebook competition to design the movement’s logo.
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Launch Your Career in the Art World at Sotheby's Institute of Art
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Privacy Backlash Prompts Cancellation of Berlin Art Project
BERLIN — Few social media performance artworks have been as polarizing as "Wanna Play? (Love in the Time of Grindr)" by Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven. After hundreds of public complaints, and numerous articles, host venue Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) has ended the engagement prematurely.
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Funk, Medicine, and Questions of the Future
In performance, as in history, there’s a lot that gets lost: layers of meaning and nuance too complex to carry in a single story. Investigating Simone Leigh's and Xenobia Bailey’s projects for funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center,
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Artist's Diaries Since 1865
From Vincent Van Gogh to Joseph Cornell, writing has always been a crucial part of the artist's life.
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Roman Opalka’s Numerical Destiny
In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opalka came to an important decision. While sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, the idea occurred that he should begin to paint numbers that would progress sequentially from one canvas to the next for the duration of hi
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A Young Artist Seduced by Attention
The attention and flattery felt so good, because the rest of the time I was terrified.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, a new photo of Oscar Wilde, ancient art being used as a weapon in Syria, a meme hurts HK protesters, the importance of artists' queer identities, how Goya landed in Boston, San Fernando Valley art history, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Fence
On Wednesday, Julia Pierson, the director of the Secret Service, resigned.
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Against Despotic Forms of Perfection: Jane Corrigan’s New Paintings
The focus of Jane Corrigan’s first solo show at Kerry Schuss is young female athletes who, by virtue of their age – they are adolescents – are likely to be undergoing biological changes as well.