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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios in Georgia, Idaho, Illinois, Ohio, and Pennsylvannia.
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Warhol's Little Red Face Book
LOS ANGELES — The name Andy Warhol is synonymous with Pop art, a movement often written off as apolitical and shallow in its engagement with American culture. Reflections of this assumption are all contained in Little Red Book #296, an album of 18 images that was recently gifted to Tulsa's Philbrook
Performance
Investing in Immersive Theater on Governors Island
Set against the economic optimism and then despair of a family-owned paper company going public, Trade Practices, presented by HERE on Governors Island, asks audience members to invest in its story lines. The immersive theater production that kicked off on Labor Day Weekend stages the experience aro
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A Floating Library on the Hudson
It isn't often you're given the luxury of unwinding in a library aboard an old vessel, unless you're Charles Darwin or Steve Zissou.
Opinion
A Small Protest Against a Public Street Turned Private in Queens
Did you know that, if you have enough money in New York City, you can buy a public street? OK, not buy, but lease one, for a really long time. That's what Kaufman Astoria Studios did in Queens, and someone is not happy about it.
Art
Oracle Bones: A 3,000-Year-Old Voice of the Dead
While dating back 3,000 years, no one recognized how special the oracle bones of the Shang Dynasty were until 1899.
Art
Fictional Collaborations Between Artists and Architects
What if the day Picasso and Le Corbusier had spent wandering the Unité d'habitation in Marseille turned into a real structural collaboration? Italian illustrator Federico Babina has imagined such collisions of visual artists with architects in a series called Artisect.
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Lack of Air-Conditioning Warps Raphael Painting at Rome Museum
In order to visit the Galleria Borghese in Rome, you must buy timed tickets online in advance.
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Counter-Competition Seeks Alternatives to Controversial Guggenheim Helsinki
As the official Guggenheim Helsinki design competition drew to a close this week, a rival contest was announced: Next Helsinki.
Art
Portraits of the "Enemy" Challenge Abuses of American Power
At the height of the Iraq War in 2006, attorney Susan Burke invited fashion photographer Chris Bartlett to focus his lens on a new subject.
Art
Eviction, Group Marriage, and What I Did Last Sunday
Last Sunday afternoon, as baffled tourists watched, an old-fashioned “Happening” occurred under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge.
Art
An Artist's Ark Meets Its Fate on Lake Superior
DULUTH, Minn. — It was a magnificent sight when it first launched. Floating 20 feet from shore, Sean Connaughty’s “Ark of the Anthropocene” seemed to glow on the dark waves of Lake Superior, drawing on real science, Biblical narrative, and science fiction all at once.