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Bringing Walking Into the Dashboard to Bushwick Open Studios
Arts in Bushwick, Tumblr, and Hyperallergic have resurrected Walking Into the Dashboard from The World's First Tumblr Art Symposium for the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios.
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A Trove of Portraiture Once Hidden Away in Oxford's Library Goes Online
The Bodleian Library acts as something of the University of Oxford's cerebral hub with over 11 million items, but what has been an inaccessible secret is its large holding of art. Now 300 of its paintings are now viewable on Your Paintings hosted by the BBC.
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The Return of Organ Music in the World's Oldest Photography Museum
Each morning and evening, as he ate, George Eastman would be serenaded by live pipe organ music played by a musician who came daily to the the photography innovator's home in Rochester, New York. Sometime after his death when the house became a museum, this system of thousands of pipes was irreparab
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How a Little-Known Mexican Film Mirrors the Labor Struggles of Today
LOUISVILLE — Music Unwound remains a provocative commentary on the history of music, politics, and performance—specifically the role of human capital in the creation and consumption of culture. Given this layered content, it seemed very contentious to present it here in Louisville.
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What About the Kids?
There's something going on with them …
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A Peek at Nomi Ruiz After Hours + Free Album Download
If you couldn't make it to the Thursday, May 9 After Hours event featuring performer Nomi Ruiz then do not fear, we have a video that will give you a taste of what you may have missed.
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Cooper Union Update: Trustee Culture and Leak
An exhausted-sounding Peter Cafiero, outgoing President of Cooper Union's Alumni Association, took to the Rose Auditorium stage on Monday night to introduce the annual Alumni Council Forum, noting that “hopefully this will continue the process of better connecting everyone, and build a community whi
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Can a Crowdsourced Narrative of Failure Do Anything But Fail?
In looking to create a visual of the word "failure," the Archive of Failure seems almost designed to fail. The project, funded by the Arts Council's Grants for The Arts in the United Kingdom, is crowdsourcing an online and print narrative of anyone's idea of what the word failure is, with "no curati
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The Power Behind the Mask
Artist and curator SOL 'SAX deconstructs the mask as an agent of social change in this tight and pithy show at IMC Lab + Gallery. Masks and costumes, an ageless, transcultural phenomena originate as play in early childhood and continue as ritual all the way up to, and beyond, death.
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The Persistence of Time at Grand Central Terminal
For meditations on time, there are few places more frenetic with marking the seconds than Grand Central Terminal. The hundreds of thousands of people that pass through the station each day create a constant motion around the gold clock that sits calmly ticking away the moments in the center of the G
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artists from Denmark, Arkansas, Idaho, New York, and Pennsylvania take part in our continuing series on artist studios.
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The Master of Coney Island: The Art of Larry Millard
When Larry Millard showed up in Coney Island in 1957, he was looking for work as a sign painter. His work was so impressive he was hired to do murals across the amusement area, particularly in the recently demolished Playland Arcade. Yet just as suddenly as he appeared, he vanished in 1960 and was n