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Today Is #MuseumMascot Day!
Today is International Museum Mascot Day, and the animals, mummies, random curios, and other collection creatures that represent their respective museums are celebrating on on Twitter with the #MuseumMascot hashtag.
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Art
Much Ado About NADA
MIAMI BEACH — The New Art Dealers Association (NADA) fair, currently in its 10th year, has established itself as something of a leading face for the "alternative" to the commercial excesses of Art Basel Miami and its orbit.
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Art Movements
Barnes Foundation president resigns, Ai Weiwei to take over Alcatraz, an illustrated tribute to Nelson Mandela, convictions in the Bolshoi acid attack, and more.
Opinion
Art Basel Miami Beach Foibles: Deitch Says "Hi, Kanye" to Diddy
MIAMI BEACH — Why were Jeffrey Deitch and Sean “Diddy” Combs chatting in an Art Basel Miami Beach booth about Kanye? This is funny …
Interview
Talking about Meret Oppenheim: An Interview with Lisa Wenger
LONDON — She was called the enfant terrible of Surrealism. She was immortalized in some of Man Ray’s best photographs. Her well-known "Object" (1936) is considered one of the most important surrealist works.
Art
When Art Was the Scientist's Eye: 400 Years of Natural History Illustrations
Art has long been incredibly important to the development of science, as shown in the Natural Histories: 400 Years of Scientific Illustration from the Museum’s Library exhibition now at the American Museum of Natural History.
Interview
Internet Archiving Trans Oral Histories
CHICAGO — The Trans Oral History Project is a grassroots community media initiative that collects the stories of trans, gender variant and gender non-conforming individuals.
Art
Making Connections, Seeing Double at Art Miami
MIAMI — One of the good things about the glut of art at fairs is the chance to make unexpected visual connections — to watch sparks fly between artworks you'd never otherwise see together. At the sprawling Art Miami fair, I was pleasantly surprised by some of the associations and affinities that jum
Opinion
David Lynch's Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of fac
Art
Art Basel Miami Beach 2013: The Best Art Mall Ever
MIAMI BEACH — Here are 12 artworks or displays of note I spotted at Art Basel Miami Beach that explore the margins of art and display at the best art mall ever.
Art
Documenting the Digital Degradation of Images in Project LOSS
Each time a JPG is compressed, something of the original image is lost, and the anomalies and imperfections hiding beneath are slowly revealed. The process of this digital degradation is the focus of photographer Ellie Pritts' glitchy Project LOSS.
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Vatican and Oxford Launch Ambitious Digital Archive of Ancient Texts
The Bodleian Library at the University of Oxford and the Vatican Library have some of the richest collections of ancient biblical texts, but most of them are inaccessible to the general public. Now, through a collaborative project, 1.5 million manuscript pages are being digitized for public access o