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Making Art in the Midwest
CHICAGO — The Midwest is no place for haters, slackers, and anyone who can't admit that they secretly love hot dogs and regularly daydream about living on a farm, or at least somewhere in the woods.
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Opinion
Solid Gold: Serpentine's Julia Peyton-Jones Tells Us How to Spend It
In case you thought that serpentine was just a name, not a sensibility, Julia Peyton-Jones, co-director of the Serpentine Gallery, has some stiff correctives for you.
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Lines for Kusama's Infinity Room Devolve Into Mobs Outside David Zwirner
Chaos has broken out in front of David Zwirner gallery on West 19th Street, where people have been lining up to see Yayoi Kusama's “Infinity Mirrored Room — The Souls of Millions of Light Years Away,” part of her exhibition that closes tomorrow, since 7 o'clock this morning. A long line has turned i
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Art Movements
London theater ceiling collapse, spacecraft coming to the New Museum, rare Van Gogh painting on display, a winner in the Picasso auction, and more recent art news.
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Two Photographers Emerge from the Shadows with Over 400 Artist Portraits
Few people may know the names of Shunk-Kender, but the pair of photographers behind that hyphenated moniker have captured many of the most famous images of post-war modern and contemporary art in Paris and New York and together they documented many ephemeral events that would've been lost to history
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Protest Moans and Moose Urine: Tales from the American Museum of Natural History
The American Museum of Natural History Museum, along with WNET, has launched an online web series to show that there's more to their dioramas than dead animals.
Comics
The Story of a Brooklyn Artist Who Moved to the Catskills
Editor's Note: We're pleased to introduce our newest comic contributor, Steven Weinberg, a former Brooklyn artist who has moved to the Catskills. This will be a continuing series.
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Christie's Detroit Institute of Arts Appraisal Released
The indefatigable Detroit Free Press once again has the scoop on the latest developments at the Detroit Institute of Arts, and this time it's the release of Christie's appraisal of the museum's collection.
Opinion
5 Ephemeral Internet Pages That Wink at Ubiquitous Popular Culture Figures and Tropes in a Way That Will Surely Amuse You and For a Moment Alleviate Your Crushing Alienation
If the title doesn't tell you everything you need to know about this post … well, then we can't help you …
Art
The Year of Rain and Cronuts
The New York art world was thrown a free joke when, over the summer, people waited in the rain to get into the Museum of Modern Art's Rain Room, a project by the studio Random International. The line was a capstone to a year of big projects with big draws, one more peak in a now-familiar rhythm: eve
Opinion
China Has Almost 4,000 Museums
We've been reading about the boom in Chinese museum building for years now, and this week The Economist joins the slew of Western outlets that have reported on the craze. The piece offers an update on the situation, including a look at the latest numbers.
Art
Digitizing a Beloved Egyptian Scholar's Archive
Ahmed Zaky Abushady was a polymath in the Victorian mold, a preeminent Egyptian literary figure, bee scientist, inventor, and physician who found pathways between modes of thought and scholarship long before "interdisciplinary" became an academic catchall.