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Artist Records Sound of the Earth 5 Miles Deep
The sound of being more than five and a half miles under the surface of the earth is something like a yawning, rumbling roar. Or at least that's what Amsterdam artist Lotte Geeven captured in her "The Sound of the Earth" project, for which she descended into one of the deepest holes in the world.
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The Topography of Emotion: New Study Maps Feelings in the Body
A new study by a team of Finnish researchers recently published in the journal Proceedings of the National Academies of Sciences (PNAS) analyzes where we feel emotions in our bodies.
Art
Art Rx
It's time, once again, for the annual performance takeover of New York City, which means American Realness and COIL are on the bill. Also this week, celebrate five years of #ArtsTech but bid farewell to Recession Art.
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Times Square Arts Presents Jay Scheib’s Live Film Adaptation of Chekhov's Platonov
Director Jay Scheib's The Disinherited [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NTEyMzAsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjc4Mzg5LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjIxNDU4NiwiZG0iOjQsImZjIjoyNjk1MjIsImZsIjoxMzk5NTEsIm53IjoyMDcsInJ2IjowLCJwciI6MTY2Niwic3QiOjAsInVyIjoiaHR0cDovL3d3dy50aW1lc3NxdWFyZW55Yy5vcmcvZGlzaW5oZXJpdGVkIiwicmUi
Art
New Selfies for a New Year
CHICAGO — We're starting 2014 off right with lots and lots of selfies. Now that we've crowned the selfie kings, it's back to selfie business as usual.
Art
A Painter's Sensuous Discipline
Consider two reds: a pure cadmium red medium — all fiery denseness — alongside a burnt sienna, equal in tone but utterly different in character: subdued, stoic, retiring. They jostle and shift, eager to separate. Plunk next to them a throng of blues, some deep and jewel-like, others brightly vacant.
Art
3D Photographs of Life on Mars, Taken by Robots
Now more than ever, it's fascinating to look at the images we have from the Red Planet, and it just so happens that NASA has a whole collection in 3D.
Hyperallergic
Merry Armenian Christmas
Whether you celebrate Epiphany, Three Kings Day, Armenian Christmas, Feast of Theophany, or Eastern Orthodox Christmas on January 6 or 7, we wish you a happy holiday!
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, where the fakes are, TED's coming disaster, Ai Weiwei speaks, drinks + politics, African art museum first, design bubble forming, King Tut's erect penis, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Smoke
On New Year's Day, pot went legal in Colorado.
Art
Why Does Wayne Thiebaud Love Goop So Much?
SAN FRANCISCO — Wayne Thiebaud, whose exhibition Memory Mountains recently closed at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery in San Francisco, turns 94 this year. Consisting of nearly fifty paintings and drawings of mountains and mesas done between 1962 and 2013, this survey exhibition reveals another side of a p