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Art School Animals
Viewing living anatomy is an essential component of many art educations, but rare are the classes where this extends beyond humans.
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Cornelius Gurlitt, Hoarder of Nazi-Era Art, Dies [UPDATED]
Just a month after reaching an agreement with the German government, Cornelius Gurlitt, the octogenarian who was hoarding one of the biggest caches of Nazi-era art discovered since World War II, has died.
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Art Rx: Your Concise Guide to Frieze NY Art Week
Art fair fever is about to hit NYC (again) and this year's Frieze New York Art Week promises to be the biggest yet.
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Still Life Mayhem
These days you can’t walk out of the house without tripping over an abstract painting.
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The Sounds of Greenland's Melting Glaciers
A carefully random scattering of chairs filled ISSUE Project Room’s Beaux-Arts style theater last Friday night. With the ability to sit facing any direction, choosing the optimal seat felt crucial, though there was no indication as to which way was best. The sole light source, a blue spotlight illum
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Nancy Cunard's 'Black Atlantic'
PARIS — The display for Black Atlantic by Nancy Cunard at the Musée du quai Branly evokes a period when the artistic and literary avant-garde became intertwined with the political and the glamorous.
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4 Long Island City Art Institutions Launch Free Shuttle Bus
It's no secret that Long Island City art institutions have long had problems drumming up foot traffic to their spaces in western Queens, but four of them have joined forces because they believe a shuttle bus may just help.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Art Online
“Thank you guys for coming,” Alexis Clements said last Thursday night to a small crowd at the Brooklyn Museum largely comprised of women. “Actually, I shouldn’t say 'guys,'” she interrupted herself, “Thank you all for coming.” That introduction set the tone for a panel that the playwright, performer
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Unmanned Archival Vehicle: Wafaa Bilal at Driscoll Babcock
For whom do images of a conflict zone, as those Wafaa Bilal has recreated in his Ashes Series, bear witness? How is this memory constituted? In his first solo show at Driscoll Babcock, the artist and NYU professor takes as his starting point newswire photographs of destruction in Iraq, transforming
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Was the Mona Lisa the World's First 3D Image?
Leonardo da Vinci's Mona Lisa has been long studied and celebrated for its virtuosic composition and sfumato technique, its mysterious background and sitter, but two experimental psychologists in Germany are suggesting that the iconic painting may have another claim to fame: being the first 3D image
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Michelangelo's David Statue Growing Frail
From the tombs of the Medici family to St. Peter's Basilica, Michelangelo designed several structures in his native Italy that have endured the threat of earthquakes. But the artist wasn't anticipating the rumblings caused by hordes of tourists and automobile traffic.
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Gallery Weekend Berlin: Post-poor, Post-sexy
BERLIN — Gallery Weekend Berlin wrapped up its tenth edition on Sunday evening. What began in 2004 as a small group of local gallerists teaming up to lure outside collectors to the "Land of Poor but Sexy" for one weekend has grown from 21 to 50 galleries in the past decade.