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MoMA to Demolish American Folk Art Museum Building
The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) is proceeding with its controversial plans to bulldoze the American Folk Art Museum building, the Wall Street Journal has reported.
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In Search of a Unified Color Theory
MINNEAPOLIS — It takes real brass for a painter to revisit geometric abstraction and color theory at this point in the art historical game, but Ruben Nusz is no dilettante in that generations-long conversation.
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Bad Book News: Libraries Burned in Lebanon, Dismantled in Canada
Arsonists torched a historic and beloved library in Tripoli, while the Canadian government has gutted its science libraries.
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Updating Guerrilla Girls for Net Artists
Chiara Moioli is a 23-year-old artist based in Milan, Italy, and she thought it was time to update the Guerrilla Girls' "The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" for internet artists like herself.
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Tom, Bob, and the Boys: Queering Midcentury Americana
LOS ANGELES — Bob Mizer and Tom of Finland are to queer pop culture something like Picasso and Braque are to 20th-century abstraction: shocking then but still rich and surprising.
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Tigers Forever: Can Nature Photography Inspire Conservation?
"If I win, the tiger wins," photographer Steve Winter said at his talk earlier this week at the Explorers Club in New York. For two decades he's traced tigers through the forests of Indonesia, Myanmar, Thailand, and India, on a quest for images that would stop people in their tracks, to spend more t
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'Independent' Monitor Releases Report on UAE Museums-Related Labor Conditions
Abu Dhabi's Tourism Development & Investment Company (TDIC), chaired by Sheikh Sultan Bin Tahoon Al Nahyan and a coterie of royal relations, has weathered its fair share of bad press connected with Saadiyat Island, a multi-billion dollar art-and-luxury hub on an artificial protrusion in the Persian
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Video Game Pits Museum Photographer vs. Security Guard
Recently I considered the question of whether or not viewers should take photographs in art museums. It turns out there's a video game in the works that makes that question an electronic challenge.
Art
Jim Hodges and the Denim Sublime
DALLAS — It's rare that I walk into an art museum or gallery exhibition and am unequivocally blown away, but occasionally you can catch lightning in a bottle. That was the case with the Jim Hodges exhibition Give More Than You Take, currently on view at the Dallas Museum of Art (DMA).
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Archaeologists Discover Ancient Pharaonic Tomb
Archaeologists from the University of Pennsylvania have discovered the tomb of an Egyptian pharaoh, Sobekhotep I, the first king of the 13th Dynasty. The tomb was found in Abydos, once a sacred city of Ancient Egypt and now an important archaeological site.
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Satanist Group Proposes 19th C Horned-Goat Monument for Oklahoma Capitol
The Satanic Temple of New York unveiled on Monday designs for a Satanic monument on the steps of the Oklahoma State Capitol. The edifice, featuring plenty of occult symbolism and smiling children, is proposed for the site adjacent to the capitol's controversial Ten Commandments statue.