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Refreshingly Designed Water Bottles
In the heavy August heat, a well-designed water bottle may be at the top of your list.
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MOCA North Miami will close, trustees from the Rauschenberg Foundation win $24.6 million, ceramic poppies take over the Tower of London, and more from the week in art news.
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Dreamlike Photos from an Early 20th-Century Broadway Bestiary
Back in 1911, one of the most talked-about Broadway roles was played by a woman dressed as a rooster, and now you can revisit the surreal staging with recently digitized photographs from the Museum of the City of New York.
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Reading the Streets of Beirut
There are few places I love in this world as much as Beirut.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in the Netherlands and Canada, Connecticut, Washington, and New York.
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The Many Lives of Degenerate Art
It’s not often that a museum gets to directly respond to front-page, bolded-headline media coverage with an exhibition that both nourishes the public’s curiosity about the reported phenomenon and expands the perception of it as well. Deliberately or otherwise, Neue Galerie couldn’t have timed it bet
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The Arrows of the Last Yahi Indian, Who Chose to Live Out His Final Days in a Museum
It's just a couple of arrows, but the pair of slender wood weapons are a reminder of a man who chose to live the rest of his life in museum rather than a reservation.
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Transformative Touch: Photographs Laced with Thread
New York’s art world seems to be experiencing a newfound love affair with art made by hand — art that has, dare I say, “craft” in it.
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15 Million Pages of Medical History Are Going Online
Over the next two years, the Wellcome Library, partnered with digital technology charity Jisc, is collaborating with nine institutions to put 15 million pages of 19th-century medical books online.
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Discovering Tutankhamun with Photographer Harry Burton
In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.
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Silence Is Enough: On Emily Jacir
Silenced, erased, censored — how then to represent this loss, this nothingness?
Opinion
Going Ape Over a Photograph's Copyright
Apparently Wikimedia, the US-based organization behind Wikipedia, is refusing to remove an image of a monkey taken by … wait for it, wait for it … the monkey itself.