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Last night, a suburban board in Detroit signaled its intent to pass a resolution discontinuing the collection of the special tax voted in to support the Detroit Institute of Arts should the institution's art or assets be liquidated. There remains a great deal of anxiety over whether or not Detroit w
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To make the roaming population of thousands of dogs in Santiago, Chile, more visible, two students attached balloons to the scruffy necks of some of these overlooked canines.
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We are a long way from the panning 8-bit landscapes of early video games into fully immersive other worlds that can be explored as places in their own right. Some of these digital destinations are documented in a new online series called Other Places.
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There are few coins as fabled at the infamous 1933 Double Eagle. It is a fascinating story of government and gold, but with a twist.
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A whole seven blocks of subterranean Manhattan is being closed off for a pedestrian-only art installation that turns a tunnel into a pulsing light and sound experience.
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CHICAGO — "You have your father's eyes," people like to tell me when they meet me and my dad at the same time. Inherited biological traits are commonplace, of course — we are the product of two people mating. French-Canadian photographer Ulric Collette's photo series Genetic Portraits presents viewe
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There are currently 32,890 pieces on Amazon Art, which begs some difficult questions.
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Yesterday, the J. Paul Getty Trust announced that they will be "making roughly 4,600 high-resolution images of the Museum’s collection free to use, modify, and publish for any purpose."
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Michael Heizer’s "Double Negative" (1969), located two hours northeast of Las Vegas, is a quintessential piece of the Land Art canon. Yet if you don’t have a clear image of what you’re looking for, you may not find it — this is no "Spiral Jetty."
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This week, three excellent film series are underway, plus YouTube wars, a talk, an opening, and a sound art experience.
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On Wednesday, August 21, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring artists AA Bronson and Carlos Motta at The Bedford in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The topic for that evening's discussion and conversation is "The Body, Spirit, Sex, Community, Magic, and the Other."