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Guggenheim Responds: Guards Paid Competitively, Gugg Abu Dhabi Not Under Construction, No Public Forum [UPDATED]
We asked the Guggenheim Foundation for clarification based on yesterday's G.U.L.F. statement. These are the answers we received.
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Museum Arcade: Indie Games Edition
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Have Your Art and Eat It Too
We all enjoy contemplating and admiring great works of art, but what about making and eating them? A new fundraising initiative from the UK-based nonprofit Art Fund is encouraging people to make art-inspired food creations.
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A little over a decade ago, President Lula de Silva announced his vision that every Brazilian would eat three meals a day. He worked to achieve that dream through the Bolsa Familia program, which economists say has lifted 22 million people out of extreme poverty. Last month, Lula’s successor Preside
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Counting the Women Online and in Print
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Art Rx
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Mean Green Performance Machine
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Meditations in Longing
LOS ANGELES — The writer Rebecca Solnit once wrote, “Memory, even in the rest of us, is a shifting, fading, partial thing, a net that doesn’t catch all the fish by any means and sometimes catches butterflies that don’t exist.” For artists Golnar Adili and Samira Yamin, the process of remembering is
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G.U.L.F. Responds to Guggenheim, Calls on Museum to Open Its Doors to Free Public Assembly
The following statement was emailed to Hyperallergic, and it is a response to Guggenheim Director Richard Armstrong's statement earlier today:
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Culture By Way of Los Angeles
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Four Independent Game Highlights from IndieCade East
Some of the indie video game finds at the Museum of the Moving Image's IndieCade East conference this month.