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NASA Beams the Mona Lisa into Space
What do art mavens and NASA nerds have in common? Maybe not much. But late last month, the two were artfully brought together when the Mona Lisa was projected into outer space on laser pulses.
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Opinion
Cloaque's One-Year Anniversary Project Harnesses the "Collaborative Potential of the Internet"
For the one year anniversary of the Tumblr artwork “Cloaque,” founders Claudia Maté and Carlos Sáez decided to do something a little different; they pushed their Tumblr project and added a collaborative video. In case you missed it, “Cloaque” is one of my favorite Tumblrs. It is an endless collage m
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What Can Art Museums Learn from the New Museum of Mathematics?
The new Museum of Mathematics, or MoMath, provides an interactive introduction to mathematical concepts through a series of hands-on, kinetic exhibits that draw in children and their families. The two-story museum, located on the north side of Madison Square Park, is built around a series of didacti
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How to Become an Outsider Artist
Are you an outsider, an insider or something in between?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the world's first computer art, new rules for museums and Ancient art, photojournalism's boundaries, criticism of Foster's new New York Public Library plan, the artist of the highly criticized royal portrait speaks up, the meaning of "outsider" art, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Honesty
With fine art auctioneers taking bids from the chandeliers hanging overhead, Weekend Words holds aloft a lamp in search of honesty.
Art
What Is It About Pageantry That We Love So Much? (On Roger Brown and Julian Schnabel)
Roger Brown (1941–1997) died a decade after his retrospective opened at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (August 13, 1987–October 18, 1987), and traveled to three other museums, none of which were on the East Coast or in a densely populated urban center. More surprising, t
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Dot Matrix: You're Finally on the Map
This is what we look like. You, me, and everybody else in North America: one dot each. 341, 817, 095 dots.
Poetry
Lady Lazarus: Sylvia Plath's Contested Afterlife
On February 11th it will be fifty years since Sylvia Plath’s death, an occasion marked by a predictable slew of new books, anniversary editions, and the revival of decades-long feuds over Plath’s contested legacy. In the Guardian, Olwyn Hughes (Ted Hughes’ sister and the supreme gatekeeper of the Pl
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Dispatches from Hell: Nancy Spero’s Cruel Beauty
Nancy Spero died in 2009 at the age of 83. The current exhibition of her hand-printed collages from the 1980s and 1990s, From Victimage to Liberation, at Galerie Lelong in Chelsea, is the first show in New York to focus on her work since her death.
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The Real Story Behind the Gentrification of Brooklyn
This morning on my way to work, I walked a few blocks through Downtown Brooklyn. On the surface, it looked the same as it always had — bustling and gritty — but I saw it differently. I noticed the vacant storefronts, the newly arrived chain stores, the towering, high-rise condos a few blocks away, a
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An Istanbul Museum Is Auctioning Off its Art Collection
Today, Istanbul's art world is in shock over the news that works of art from the collection of the recently closed Santralistanbul Museum of Contemporary Art were set to hit the auction block in an upcoming sale.