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The damage caused by the Polish Yellowist Vladimir Umanets to Mark Rothko's painting "Black on Maroon" (1958) at the Tate in October could take up to 18 months to repair. The vandalism is, unfortunately, far worse than initially thought.
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Have you seen the photograph of Astronaut Charles Duke and his family that was left on the Moon in 1972? It is a small 3x5 color photo of Duke, his wife Dorothy and their two sons Charles and Thomas posing for a studio portrait. If you visit the American Museum of Natural History in New York you can
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As has been all too visible in the tossed wreckage of homes and devastation of whole neighborhoods from the recent storm, floods ravage what they consume into fragments, pulling away some things and leaving the rest in disorder ready for decay. Although Phong Bui's current exhibition at Show Room, W
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At some point, nearly two hours in, Marlene McCarty, one of the members of the AIDS activist group Gran Fury, an affinity group that was part of ACT-UP, reminded those gathered: “We were not making art.” The event was a panel discussion that took place at Columbia University on November 15, organize
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Are you or have you ever considered becoming a hipster? You better become acquainted with the already-outdated moniker's attendant signifier first: Irony. You have to eat it. You have to breathe it. You have to put a kitschy magnet of it on your fridge and iron it on to a jacket.
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When James Jenkin prepared for Hurricane Sandy, moving his supply of books onto elevated pallets in the basement of his West Chelsea bookstore, he could not have imagined he would lose nearly 9,000 of them.
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Safeguarding from damage against possible explosions from the ongoing conflict in Gaza, the Tel Aviv Museum of Art has removed all of the 100-some works in its exhibition All His Sons: The Brueghel Dynasty and put them in a fortified vault, reports the AP. Jewish News One adds that this is the first
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SOUTHERN ZONE, Costa Rica — I’m staying in the blue room. It is my honeymoon and we have travelled four hours from the San José airport to a magnificent rainforest hideaway. Monte Azul dubs itself as an eco-lodge that combines culture and conservation. This ecolodge — which comprises four “casitas”
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On November 9, the New York Times published an article titled "Occupy Sandy: A Movement Moves to Relief." The URL for the story, which presumably reflects either an alternate or an original headline for the story, offers a slightly more pointed take: "Where FEMA Fell Short, Occupy Sandy Was There."
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The damage from Sandy's flooding took Chelsea galleries by surprise. The swelling water knocked artworks from walls and poured into basement storage areas, where art spaces and artists alike often store the work that's not on display. Zach Feuer Gallery's sloped space meant that water washed directl
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It's a quiet week in New York. Holidays are a good time for museums, so the doctor recommends a few exhibitions, plus an art and new media festival and a few more Hurricane Sandy benefits. Happy Turkey Day!
Opinion
Romanian artist Sebastian Cosor creates a very personal animated vision of the world inhabited by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893–1910) and sets it all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).