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Brazilian Illustrator Becomes First Latin American to Win Hans Christian Andersen Award
Little in childhood is more magical than reading a beautifully illustrated book.
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Muriel Cooper, 'Messages and Means' at Columbia University
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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National Exhibition Will Fill US Billboards with Art
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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Art Rx
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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NYC Report Reveals Inequalities in Public School Arts Education
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."
Opinion
Comic Sans Gets a Makeover, and You Can Download It Free
Well, lovers of Comic Sans rejoice!
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Germany and Munich Art Hoarder Announce Agreement on Nazi-Era Trove
The German government and the octogenarian who last fall was discovered to be hiding a trove of nearly 1,500 Nazi-era artworks have reached an agreement about the future of the collection.
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An Abstract Painter's Mixed-In Tensions
Any painter who doesn't find painting difficult should be treated with suspicion. Managing real challenges, as opposed to affected ones, should be the root of an artist's style, by choice or by consequence. The work of Logan Grider has always struck me as bound up in tensions that are either invited
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Giving a Face to the Victims of Drone Killings
A union of hashtag activism, street art, and drones hardly portends an outcome of substance, but a rare exception has surfaced in Pakistan, where a collective has unveiled an athletic-field-sized poster meant to attract the attention of American drones operating in the country's volatile Khyber Pakh
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A 19th-Century Map of the Geology Hidden Beneath NYC Streets
There was much rejoicing among cartography lovers when the New York Public Library's Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division recently released over 20,000 maps for free use.
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Archives of the Collective: Selected Works by Pratt Second-Year MFA Candidates
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This Is Your Selfie Reality
LOS ANGELES — What’s the best thing about selfies right now? That they are everywhere, and there’s nothing you can do to stop them. According to the internet, selfies are both the cause and effect of many social issues today.