Opinion
Another Royal Portrait Disaster
You may have thought the Kate Middleton debacle was enough bad royal portrait news for one year, but no, there's more. Behold, a new portrait of the Danish royal family.
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How Cartography Helped Make Colonial Empires
If you want to claim a territory, it's good to have a map to show what's yours. Defining Lines: Cartography in the Age of Empire at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University examines how maps were a form of political control and public perception by Western colonial powers from the 16th and 20th c
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Art Movements
LA MOCA hires an interim director, more victims of the fake Abstract Expressionism scandal, new partnership for museum diversity, and more.
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Paul D'Amato Documents America, or Chicago's West Side
CHICAGO — Paul D'Amato’s large-scale photographs in his exhibition We Shall at the DePaul Art Museum offer a glimpse into the lives of ordinary people and urban landscapes on Chicago's West Side.
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Curating at the Airport: The SFO Museum
SAN FRANCISCO — If our first impressions of a city are often framed by the airport, then SFO makes up for its lack of architectural grandeur with its own unique museum and culture.
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Bringing Collections to Life
OAKLAND, Calif. — Floating around the web right now is The Whale Warehouse, a terrific look behind the scenes of Los Angeles's Natural History Museum. Produced by KPCC Los Angeles's AudioVision, it brings to life the collections in a new way, with a tour of a "warehouse down the street from a meatpa
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Historic Mexican Mural Preserved in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — "You're taking photos of the screen." I turn around on the América Tropical Interpretive Center's viewing platform, perched above a waking Olvera Street in Downtown Los Angeles.
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Cheese Grown from Olafur Eliasson's Tears, Hans Ulrich Obrist's Nose, and Others
An artist project currently on display in Dublin uses bacteria from artists, designers, and other humans to make cheese.
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Better Art Appreciation Through Brain Stimulation
A new study has found that electronic stimulation to a certain part of the brain could help you appreciate art better. Science!
Art
Even the Giants Fall: Photographs of Brutalist Homes in Decay
Just before they were turned to rubble, Chris Mottalini photographed Paul Rudolph-designed homes in their final decay.
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5Pointz Protest Re-buffed
Yesterday's defiant response to Tuesday's 5Pointz whitewashing was rebuffed overnight, as the back-and-forth continues between members of the 5Pointz community and property owners Jerry and David Wolkoff of G&M Realty.
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How Writing Is Like Performance
PORTLAND, Oregon —Portland’s literary prowess is well known. Home to the truly amazing Powell’s bookstore, a number of high caliber small presses, and host to many readings, the city is a great place for people who love words. I traveled there early this month to check out another kink in this pheno