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Bad Book News: Libraries Burned in Lebanon, Dismantled in Canada
Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
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School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Spring 2014 Information Sessions
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Opinion
Updating Guerrilla Girls for Net Artists
Chiara Moioli is a 23-year-old artist based in Milan, Italy, and she thought it was time to update the Guerrilla Girls' "The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" for internet artists like herself.
Art
Tom, Bob, and the Boys: Queering Midcentury Americana
LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer pop culture something like Picasso and Braque are to 20th-century abstraction: shocking then but still rich and surprising.
Art
Tigers Forever: Can Nature Photography Inspire Conservation?
"If I win, the tiger wins," photographer Steve Winter said at his talk earlier this week at the Explorers Club in New York. For two decades he's traced tigers through the forests of Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India, on a quest for images that would stop people in their tracks, to spend more t
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'Independent' Monitor Releases Report on UAE Museums-Related Labor Conditions
Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahoon Al Nahyan and a coterie of royal relations, has weathered its fair share of bad press connected with Saadiyat Island, a multi-billion dollar art-and-luxury hub on an artificial protrusion in the Persian
Opinion
Video Game Pits Museum Photographer vs. Security Guard
Recently I considered the question of whether or not viewers should take photographs in art museums. It turns out there's a video game in the works that makes that question an electronic challenge.
Art
Jim Hodges and the Denim Sublime
DALLAS — It's rare that I walk into an art museum or gallery exhibition and am unequivocally blown away, but occasionally you can catch lightning in a bottle. That was the case with the Jim Hodges exhibition Give More Than You Take, currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Pharaonic Tomb
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, Sobekhotep I, the first king of the 13th Dynasty. The tomb was found in Abydos, once a sacred city of Ancient Egypt and now an important archaeological site.
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Satanist Group Proposes 19th C Horned-Goat Monument for Oklahoma Capitol
The Satanic Temple of New York unveiled on Monday designs for a Satanic monument on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The edifice, featuring plenty of occult symbolism and smiling children, is proposed for the site adjacent to the capitol's controversial Ten Commandments statue.
Comics
Do We Need Another Name for the "Art World"?
Leave "art" out of it …
Art
Artist Records Sound of the Earth 5 Miles Deep
The sound of being more than five and a half miles under the surface of the earth is something like a yawning, rumbling roar. Or at least that's what Amsterdam artist Lotte Geeven captured in her "The Sound of the Earth" project, for which she descended into one of the deepest holes in the world.