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A silhouette of a ballerina is fading on an abandoned semi truck, a sign for Lover's Lane warns of "falling rocks" and "high water." And not a person is around. What is this strange and desolate landscape?
In Brief
While most people go to libraries to check out books, one Toronto library is offering visitors an opportunity to print out their own.
News
Last night, artist Robert Raphael's public art work was destroyed by vandals on New York City's Randall's Island park.
Art
The Romantic landscape artists of the 18th and 19th century were so obsessed with nature and the skies above that in 1856 critic John Ruskin called the frenzy "modern-day cloud worship."
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The Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Museum is opening the newly renovated sixth floor of its Eliza G. Radeke building to the public this Friday.
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Over 100 artists and intellectuals — including Judith Butler, Lucy Lippard, Chantal Mouffe, Walid Raad, Martha Rosler, and Gayatri Spivak — have signed on to a public letter calling on participants to withdraw from Creative Time's traveling Living as Form exhibition on the grounds that it is current
In Brief
UK's National Trust is really excited they now have an "authentic" Rembrandt self-portrait, and they want everyone to know.
Art
PARIS — In forming an exhibition on the Orient Express, the railroad line most steeped in myth, it was wise to bring in the body of the train itself.
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Kara Walker's 75-foot-long, 35-foot-tall sculpture made of 160,000 pounds of sugar rests in the expansive, soon-to-be-razed Domino Sugar Refinery, surrounded by 15 five-foot-tall statues of boys coated in molasses and brown sugar. Where are all the sugar-seeking pests?
Art
This week, the annual Museum Mile Festival kicks off, the Guggenheim screens Futurist films, funky turns 40, an abstract tribute to artist Leo Rabkin takes place in Brooklyn, Rico Gatson's solo show at Studio 10 looks great, and lots more.
Art
Bad things can happen to almost any art. Casino impresario Steve Wynn famously stuck an elbow through his Picasso while bragging about the high price he was about to get for his trophy canvas, and a clumsy visitor to the Fitzwilliam Museum managed to trip on a staircase and take out a whole row of i