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With his heavy modernist hand and love of concrete, you wouldn't really think of architect Le Corbusier as someone who communed with nature. Yet in the current MoMA exhibition Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes, there is among the architectural drawings and cubic models a small case of natu
Interview
German-born, Istanbul-based Turkish artist Taner Ceylan, a prominent Turkish artist whose work deals with the hidden histories of the Ottoman Empire.
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A paper published in the most recent issue of Adaptive Behavior significantly updates the long-standing thesis that the global prevalence in prehistoric art of "certain types of geometric visual patterns" suggests hallucinogenic inspirations. The University of Tokyo authors — Tom Froese, Alexander W
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CHICAGO — Every performance online and off is essentially about energy. Marina Abramović knows this, and so after her 2010 endurance-based performance at MoMA "The Artist is Present," she disappeared in order to train with shamans in Brazil where she learned more about energy, and took time to heal.
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On Monday night, I finally made it out to the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival for day (evening, really) 3 of the Super Coda series, an ongoing experimental cabaret curated by Valerie Kuehne. The event took place at Goodbye Blue Monday, a grungy yet homey place that's part bar, part c
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The title of Shanti Grumbine’s current exhibition at A.I.R. Gallery, The Glittering Point, comes from the phrase “glittering generalities,” which, according to the artist, became popular in the mid-nineteenth century. The term describes propaganda that champions vagueness to evoke positive feelings
News
A museum in China has been forced to shut its doors — not because of a lack of visitors or funding, but because word got out that the vast majority of its 40,000-piece collection is fake. Woops.
Opinion
Yesterday's critique of Allison Schrager's art market takedown in Quartz was about something that is ultimately quite simple: certain fictions about the exceptional irrationality or corruption of the art market are sustained for various reasons — from marginalized artists who would sooner believe th
Announcement
The Vilcek Foundation is looking for their next featured digital artist through the dARTboard Call for Entries in Digital Art [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6NjkzMSwiYXQiOjIwLCJjbSI6MzkzMjksImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6MTA2MzY4LCJkbSI6NCwiZmMiOjE0NTQ3OCwiZmwiOjcxNjY3LCJudyI6MjA3LCJydiI6MCwicHIiOjE2NjYs
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It took two centuries for the African Burial Ground in Lower Manhattan to be remembered, when 18th century bones were found interred in a forgotten cemetery beneath the construction of a new high dollar federal development in 1991. While that long-overlooked cemetery is now remembered with a museum
Comics
Some things never change …
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With summer sweltering and those high air conditioning bills to pay, you're melting quickly and not made of money. Why not watch some free online art programming to ease your eyes? Here are eight web series available from your internet device.