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See the NYC Subway in 1905
A silent, black-and-white video released by the Library of Congress captures a snippet of the first NYC subway line in 1905, trailing a train from 14th Street to Grand Central just a year after the subway opened.
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Artists Protest Federalization of Brazilian Museum
A month and a half ago, Brazil lit up with protests as a million people took to the streets. The country is due to host the World Cup in less than a year (and the Olympics in less than three), but many Brazilians are increasingly unhappy with their government in the face of the impending soccer tour
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Art Movements
This week, NYC's $50M Culture Shed, Pussy Riot denied bail, Smithsonian and Trayvon Martin, JFK airport demolishing Pan Am Worldport, London's Independent cuts Sunday culture critics, and more.
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See the Studios of Artists Past
The Smithsonian Institution has an awesome online archive of old photographs of artists, many in their studios, where sculptors pose midway through work and painters cradle their palettes at their easels. Some have their clothes stained with paint, others obviously spruced up for the portrait occasi
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Crime Wave
ACAB or whatever… Until my white ass gets mugged for my iPhone5 of course.
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New York City's Art Scene in the 1920s
We’ve all heard the tales, dripping in posthumously-applied glamour, of New York City in the 1920s. These stories are usually set in smoky speakeasies with women donning flapper dresses and short bobs, saxophones smoothly slithering along a bar full of bootlegged liquor and men in fedoras and suits.
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For Your Next Roadtrip: A Guide to America's Art Parks
The sculpture park is a relatively recent art destination, really flourishing in the 1960s and 70s when artists explored the use of the American landscape as a medium for public art. Yet now the United States is dotted with these little art oases, from those that sprawl over rural acres to those emb
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Images from the Final Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival
The fourth and final week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) included many lectures as performance, the idea of networked performance, and what exactly would a marketplace for performance art mean?
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The Tombs of Artists: A Last Statement From the Grave
As a last final statement, artists' tombstones don't disappoint. From the wildly eccentric to those that incorporate their own creations, the graves of artists are a fascinating reflection of their work.
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Southampton Adventures with Hyperallergic
Last Saturday, a diverse group of more than 50 art enthusiasts, collectors, gallerists, art advisors, museum professionals, and artists joined Hyperallergic for a day trip to the Hamptons.
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The Day Portland Stood Still
CHICAGO — Kirk Crippens's photographic series Portraitlandia is a visual manifestation of that surreal moment when quotidian life, a hit television show, and a curious photographer converge.
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Museum Gets Shafted: An Elevator Pitch for Curiosities
It's been over a year since we visited the opening of Museum, the diminutive institution housed in a Cortlandt Alley elevator shaft in Lower Manhattan, so I recently stopped by to see their summer exhibition. The show is more like an eclectic installation of 15 small exhibitions, from tip jars to Ch