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Your Helpful Guide to #AskaCurator Day on Twitter
With 581 museums in 34 countries taking part, #AskaCurator is set to generate a lot of discussion about art around the world.
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Bright Nights, Weird City: Photographs from the New NYC Underground
Boats constructed from the refuse of New York City; parties with flames in abandoned buildings; concerts where the crowd consumes the band in a frenzy. These are the DIY and dirty scenes of the city that Tod Seelie has spent around 15 years photographing …
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Lego Hacks, Tricks, and Minimalism
OAKLAND, Calif. — Legos have come a long way and they continue to evolve and adapt.
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A Psychedelic Cave Blooms in Chicago
CHICAGO — If a tree grows in Brooklyn, a cave populated by neon flora 'n fauna blooms in Chicago by way of New Mexico.
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America's Newest Creative Class: Asian Americans
OAKLAND, Calif. — Asian Americans occupy 6.1 percent of creative jobs in this country, which is nearly half of the Asian-American population.
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Navigate NYC With Public Art Through This Urban Intervention
"Art within One Mile" by artist Bundith Phunsombatlert helps you find the art you may or may not be looking for.
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Five American Museums on the Horizon
Here are five museums that have made it through the obstacles of committees, construction, and community and are (more or less) finally set to open in the imminent future.
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Nanotech Explains Ancient Roman Color-Changing Cup
OAKLAND, Calif. — Some of my favorite images from the classical world are archaeologist Vinzenz Brinkmann's recreations of the "true colors" of Greek and Roman statues. Stripped of their color over the millennia, the supposedly minimalist statues were instead imbued with bright yellows, red and blue
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The Propeller Group Lands in New York
Despite the Propeller Group's collective experience, their reined-in launch show Lived, Lives, Will Live! at Lombard Freid Projects was anti-climatic.
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Bringing a Spanish-Language Used Bookstore to New York
Of New York's 8 million people, some 1.9 million speak Spanish at home. That's almost a quarter of the inhabitants (all figures based on the 2008 census). And trends here reflect a larger one: the US is now home to the second-largest Spanish-speaking population in the world, after Mexico.
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Art Rx
The fall art season is in full swing in New York, and we can barely keep up. It's a good week in particular for the bookish types, with both the New York Art Book Fair and the Brooklyn Book Festival coming to town, plus fall festivals launching in spades and two artist lectures.
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Dreaming on Death Row
NASHVILLE — Tennessee is the buckle of the Bible belt, situated below the state of Kentucky and just north of Alabama. The second night of my stay, I stopped by a show called Unit 2 (Part 1) at Coop Gallery in downtown Nashville. Organized by Watkins College of Art professors Robin Paris and Tom Wil