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This week in art news: Corcoran merger approved by judge, Soviet monument vandalized, and over 1000 first-pressings of the Beatle's "White Album" go on display in Liverpool.
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A Travel Bureau for a Trip to the Moon
Extraplanetary travel has seemed tantalizingly close ever since the first moon landing over 45 years ago. Alas, we're no closer to spending our summer holidays riding rovers on the lunar craters, and even with the advent of private space travel like Virgin Galactic and SpaceX it's astronomically una
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Navigate an Art Gallery Like a Video Game
It's not every day that you get to climb all over classic works for art — unless you're an unsupervised child — but a new online gallery lets you jump on the Koons and the Warhol.
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New Art in New Jersey
NEWARK — New Jersey’s image is calcified with tired cultural signifiers. It’s old hat. So it was lovely to encounter the Newark Museum’s latest exhibition, Ready or Not: 2014 New Jersey Arts Annual, a show displaying works by 40 contemporary artists based in the state.
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New Site for Data Visualization Lets You Share Statistics
From charts that show how swearing in public has changed over time to a graph tallying the crimes that have put people behind bars in New York, a new site is aiming to make data visualization more accessible and shareable.
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Buying Art in Bitcoin
In May, painters Valentin Ruhry and Andy Boot launched Cointemporary, an online art gallery exhibiting artworks that can only be bought using the popular crypto-currency Bitcoin.
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Satan, You've Changed
The Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University is opening an exhibition this week — Sympathy for the Devil: Satan, Sin and the Underworld — that explores the evocation of the devil over 500 years.
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A Documentarian of Memory
Chris Marker’s death two years ago, on the day of his 91st birthday, heralded a surge of renewed interest in the enigmatic French filmmaker. With an impressive retrospective centered on a digital restoration of the film Level Five (1997), the Brooklyn Academy of Music presses on with the project of
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LACMA Is the First Museum to Join Snapchat
Social media has become a staple of museum communications plans, so we weren't surprised to learn that the Los Angeles County Museum of Art became the first museum to join the Venice Beach–based social network last month.
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Native American Artists Take Control of Their Market
ALBUQUERQUE — Not often, when a popular board member leaves an arts organization, do constituents get riled enough to do something about it, other than perhaps grumble on Facebook. However, John Torres Nez’s resignation from the Southwestern Association of Indian Art in April tapped a well of discon
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Police Cut Images from Artwork over Kiddie Porn Concerns
In an ongoing case, Australian artist Paul Yore is facing child pornography charges following complaints concerning his work in a group show on view last year at Melbourne's Linden Centre of Contemporary Arts.
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A Question Artists Hate
Why do people ask this all the time?