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Amazon gets a white-backdrop photography patent, Delaware Art Museum announces first art at auction, Putin bans profanity, and more from the week in art news.
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Times Square Arts Presents "Dream of the Red Chamber, a Performance for a Sleeping Audience" at the Historic Brill Building
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Digitizing a Disappearing Glass-Plate Archive of Romanian Life
After serving as a Romanian war photographer from World War I through 1920, Costica Acsinte settled in Slobozia in the south of the country and set up a studio called Foto Splendid Acsinte. There he proceeded to document the surrounding community in over 5,000 images.
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On the Floor at Frieze New York 2014
Some dating wisdom has it that the third date is make or break, the one when you decide whether or not to move forward. This is the third year of the Frieze New York art fair, and I'm just not sure I see us having a future together.
Books
The Call to Action to Save Digitized Books from Oblivion
Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
Art
Using Architecture to Consider HIV Transmission
Alien Sex Club, an installation by John Walter set for the University of Westminster's Ambika P3 opening in July 2015, will seek to promote the idea of a safe, informative physical space to act as a buffer between the smart phone dating app and the physical experience of a sexual encounter.
Books
How the West Was Won by a 19th-Century Photographer
Back in the 1860s, the capital of the United States was glimpsing two visions of its country: one of brutality, and one of beauty. The latter was captured by Carleton Watkins in his photographs of an untouched wilderness in the West.
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Art and Tech Nonprofit Eyebeam Announces 3-Year Move to Industry City, New Fellows
Leading arts and tech nonprofit Eyebeam has announced plans to move into a space in Brooklyn's Industry City for roughly three years before relocating to an as-yet unbuilt space in downtown Brooklyn. The organization has also announced the recipients of its new two-year 2014/2015 Eyebeam Fellowships
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Bard Graduate Center Gallery Presents "Waterweavers: The River in Contemporary Colombian Visual & Material Culture"
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Comics
Artists in the Wild
Before moving to the Catskills, I had a hard time imagining being a professional artist anywhere but an urban environment.
Art
Transcending Trends: Charles James at the Anna Wintour Costume Center
Charles James is probably not a name that is as instantly recognizable in fashion as Coco Chanel or Christian Dior, but as the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s new exhibition, Charles James: Beyond Fashion shows us, his work and legacy transcend the zeitgeist and ushers us back to a period of supreme, m
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Illinois, New Jersey, New York, and Costa Rica.