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Cai Guo-Qiang Turns Tortoises into Art, Raising Animal-Rights Concerns [UPDATED]
The new Shigeru Ban–designed Aspen Art Museum will open with a 24-hour event this Saturday, but not everyone in town is happy.
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Artist's 100-Year Project Will Grow Books from Saplings
It takes a certain measure of both hubris and selflessness to create an artwork that won't be completed until long after your death. Scottish artist Katie Paterson's "Future Library" begins this year and will come to fruition in 100.
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A House for Holograms on Governors Island
For the summer the Center for the Holographic Arts, that organization dedicated to mindbending 3D art, has a new home on Governors Island in one of the yellow houses that line leafy Nolan Park.
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Kitsch, Myth, and Technology: Japanese Art in the West
Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and “technological sophistication.”
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ArtRx LA: Summer Day Trips
This week, we're all about summer day getaways. That perfect trip that will change your perspective and mood, while exposing you to something out of the ordinary.
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Boston's Museum of Fine Arts Increasingly Reliant on Fee-Generating Loans
Boston's Museum of Fine Arts (MFA) is increasingly turning to lending out marquee artworks in their collection for profit, according to the Boston Globe.
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Construction Workers Uncover Important Ancient Greek Wine Cup
Traditionally known as the "first citizen of Athens," Pericles was a lover of art and literature, and a driving force behind the Parthenon's construction. Now, archeologists in the modern Greek capital claim to have discovered the statesman's wine cup, according to the Greek newspaper Ta Nea.
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Just Because You Can Doesn't Mean You Should: On Marina Abramović and Unpaid Work
When I read about Marina Abramović’s volunteer advertisement on the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) website last week, it got me thinking about how many arts nonprofits employ the law to their benefit, and many times against an ethical grain.
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A Very Personal Art History of the Motor City
With ruin porn photographs and discussions of whether creativity can save Detroit persisting at every turn, it was only a matter of time before someone organized an art exhibition about the city. That time has come.
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Divisions of Labor: 'Capitalist Realism' at Artists Space
From Baudelaire's 1859 dismissal of photography on down, the image-culture of the petit bourgeois "mob" has long served as a provocation to artistic thought, a relationship that reached its most literal apogee in the West with the Pop Art of the 20th century.
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ArtRx NYC: Summer Day Trips
This week, we invite you to leave the city and explore the world outside NYC.