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Some people think that ghosts are fragments from people's lives imprinted on the world, playing over and over again after death. A sound project evokes this idea of a "delayed echo" of activity with a dreamlike black orb that floats through the air.
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CHICAGO — United States Artists (USA), the arts funding organization founded in 2005, made two announcements on April 2: the appointment of a new CEO, and the impending relocation of the headquarters from Los Angeles to Chicago.
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You must, and shall, begin every single conversation about Norman Rockwell by addressing the question: "Is it art?" And then you must, and shall, say: "It is illustration."
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Miriam Elia, the artist accused of copyright infringement by Penguin UK for her children's book parody We Go to the Gallery, is auctioning off the remaining 10 copies of her first edition run on eBay.
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Compared to the wonders of the ancient world, urban sprawl is devastatingly mundane. But what if a mass-produced monument sprang from its overdeveloped terrain?
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Kevin Sutherland, the Florida pastor on trial for attempting to sell counterfeit Damien Hirst works, has been convicted in New York State Supreme Court. Jurors found Sutherland guilty of attempted grand larceny in the second degree.
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Last year, the Brazilian government ruffled a few feathers when it decided that television didn’t count as culture, but a new miniseries by set designer, director, and writer Alberto Renault throws a bit of a monkey wrench into the government’s claim.
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Little in childhood is more magical than reading a beautifully illustrated book.
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By Muriel Cooper's hand, a charismatic, digitally transmuted Bauhaus aesthetic came to grace the covers of some of the twentieth century's most influential scholarly books on design, architecture, economics, biology, computer science, and sociology.
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Five American art museums and the Outdoor Advertising Association of America will mount a nationwide public art exhibition this summer. Art Everywhere will bring reproductions of some 50 artworks from the museums' collections — chosen how else but through an online public vote — to billboards, subwa
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This week, we're offering a full menu of NYC events just to prove that if you don't know what to do in this city then you're just not looking.
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A report published today by New York City's comptroller found that more than 28 percent of city public schools lack a certified arts educator, in violation of "clearly established mandates in New York State Education Law."