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14,000 Images of the French Revolution Released Online
The French Revolution Digital Archive, a partnership between Stanford University and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, was announced this week with some 14,000 high-resolution images.
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This week, Super Bowl art bets, Carrie Mae Weems speaks, Central America's largest Mayan museum, Tibetan medical art, gay minimalism, writers and alcohol, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Glass
This week came the announcement that Google has teamed up with the country’s largest vision-care company in a deal that will offer subsidized frames and prescription lenses for Google Glass, a move that may hasten the popularity of wearable computers.
Books
Found Sounds, Found Stories: Andy Mister’s Liner Notes
Andy Mister’s recent book 'Liner Notes' captures the intimate texture of a consciousness that interacts with both the boring mundanity of an everyday work routine and the drug culture that, to some, is associated with an artist’s life.
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Weekend Studio Visit: Albert Contreras in Santa Monica, California
Albert Contreras, who was born during Franklin Roosevelt’s first term as President, is a lean and cheerful man around eighty years old. He lives and works in a small apartment two blocks from the Pacific Ocean.
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Holly Solomon: For a Pop-Era Icon, an Extended 15 Minutes of Fame
Starting in the late 1960s, in the New York art world and internationally, Holly Solomon was for many a genuine star and maybe even, in Andy Warhol’s lexicon, a “superstar.”
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Gertrude Stein All the Time, Time, Time, and Time
If you are going to read Gertrude Stein’s titanic novel The Making of Americans — the Dalkey paperback is a little over 900 pages long — why not spare your eyes and have someone read it to you? This past weekend, the magazine Triple Canopy offered to do just that.
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All of the Above: Lori Ellison’s Dazzling Humility
Lori Ellison’s incremental, interdependent shapes well up across the surface of a page or panel, their rhythmic patterns at once contained and unmanageable.
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Artists and NFL Quarterbacks: A Brief Guide
The 2014 Super Bowl, also known as Super Bowl XLVIII, will be held on Sunday, February 2 at MetLife Stadium in New Jersey. What’s that got to do with art? As it turns out, there are certain distinct parallels between the high-profile athletes who patrol the chalky gridiron and the art stars who exhi
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Daydreaming of a Star You've Never Seen
LOS ANGELES — When it comes to celebrities, it doesn't make too much of a difference what's real and what's speculation, because everything is part of the same glorified fantasy space. At least, that's what Lenae Day's clever solo exhibition Prescott Pictures, at Mark Moore Gallery, would have you b
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Cartoonists Petition Major Festival Over SodaStream Sponsorship
A slew of notable figures from the world of comics has piled onto the controversy that's erupted over Scarlett Johansson's departure from Oxfam over her relationship with the controversial Israeli carbonation appliance firm SodaStream.
Opinion
Museum Digitizes Entire Nazi "Degenerate Art" Inventory
The Victoria and Albert Museum published a remarkable document online today: the Nazis' inventory of "degenerate art" (entartete Kunst).