Opinion
The Comical Side of Science
OAKLAND, Calif. — Science is always painted as a subject diametrically opposed to art, but some of the best scientists have talked about their thinking process as one that's very creative in scope.
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Art
Join Us on Sat, Nov 16, for Swoon's Braddock Tiles NYC Benefit
Art lovers may know Braddock, Pennsylvania, as a crumbling place from the haunting black-and-white photographs of LaToya Ruby Frazier. But a new project led by the artist Swoon is aiming to revitalize at least one corner of this rust-belt town with art, craft, and beauty.
Art
The Quirky Invincibility of Mr. Dead and Mrs. Free
The Squat Theater, an itinerate group of mostly Hungarian political theatre emigrés decamped to NY in the 1970’s, barreling and slaking their way through the uber-outré squalor of an infrastructure challenged city, then self-imploded circa 1985.
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Nail in the Coffin for Cariou v. Prince
Richard Prince, J.D. Salinger fan and one-half of the traveling legal circus Cariou v. Prince, had the copyright charges levied against him permanently waved away yesterday by the highest court in the land.
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Free Cooper Union Leaks "Board Presentation" Suggesting Art Dept Is in Trouble
Free Cooper Union has released the first installment of what they allege will be a two-week long period marked by the daily publication of "anonymously leaked confidential documents" from the university's administration.
Art
Remaking "Carrie" in the Age of Social Media
CHICAGO — Boys don't cry, and young girls fight back with their psychic powers in director Kimberly Peirce’s films. This past Saturday in Chicago, Peirce, the director of Boys Don't Cry, Stop-Loss, and most notably the new remake of Carrie, took to the stage with WBEZ reporter Alison Cuddy at Franci
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Music for a Solemn Space: The First Contemporary Art at the Cloisters
For the first time in its history, the Cloisters is exhibiting a work of contemporary art.
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Francis Bacon Triptych Breaks World Auction Record at $142.4M
Tonight, Francis Bacon's "Three Studies of Lucian Freud" (1969) broke the world auction record and realized $142,405,000 at Christie's Tuesday night Post-War and Contemporary auction at Manhattan's Rockefeller Center.
Film
The Pervert’s Guide to Slavoj Zizek
Once more into the rabbit hole breach, The Pervert’s Guide to Ideology tails Slavoj Žižek on another meta-tour of the popular cultural sub-terrain.
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See 25 Artworks from Newly Discovered Nazi-era Art Stash
In an about-face, the German government announced Monday a new, accelerated policy for the 1,406 paintings discovered in a 2011 raid on Cornelius Gurlitt's Munich apartment, promising a task force and a speedy release of information about the cache.
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United States Loses UNESCO Voting Rights
Last Friday, the United States had its voting rights with UNESCO revoked after not having paid dues to the organization for two years, an action that leaves a void of funding for the organization, as well as potentially impairing America's influence in the arena of global cultural politics and herit
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Visit the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) Graduate Open House on Nov 16
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