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The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition: Ancient but Justified
LONDON — With all the fanfare and hullabaloo surrounding Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee (celebrating sixty years as the British monarch) wrapping up this past Tuesday, I was reminded of another ancient British tradition that is taking place now, too: the Royal Academy of Art's (RA) summer exhi
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Eclectic Influences: The Artists Space Bookstore
It’s actually been going on for about two years, but like many visitors to the Artists Space gallery prior to May 2012, you may not have noticed the bookshop project. Now that it's been placed right inside the entrance of the organization's new event space at 55 Walker Street in Tribeca, it’s imposs
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Art Rx
This week the doctor is prescribing a good, strong dose of Manhattan, to help balance out the effects of last weekend's jam-packed Bushwick Open Studios.
Opinion
Twitter Transforms Its Logo Into Sleeker, Balder Birdie
Today the micro-blogging service has unveiled its sleeker and more feather-less — not to mention slightly darker — blue logo.
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Archeologist Uncovers Oldest Rock Art, Exclaims "Oh #$@&! A Vulva"
The new discovery, uncovered at a site called Abri Castanet in France, consists mainly of circular carvings most likely meant to represent the vulva.
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Largest Contemporary Glass Museum to Open in Upstate NY
The Corning Museum of Glass has unveiled plans to expand their museum with a 100,000-square-foot expansion designed by architect Thomas Phifer and Partners, the team who completed the award-winning North Carolina Museum of Art that was described by one architectural writer as a "museum building that
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Eco-Art and the Battle of Invisible Evidence
When BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded in April 2010, an estimated 172 million gallons of oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico, creating the worst petroleum-industry spill in U.S. history. The stories and images of crude oil reaching the coastlines of the Gulf States were appalling — pelica
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Gay Sex, Art and Nostalgia on the New York Waterfront
While at The Piers: Art and Sex along the New York Waterfront at the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, one question kept popping up in my mind: What is with this obsessive nostalgia for the decaying, destroyed and often depressing New York of the past, particularly as connected to the eme
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Retrofuturist 1950s Comics Imagine China in the 21st Century
A recent series of comics that appeared on Sina Weibo show the Chinese Communist Party's propaganda comics in 1950, depicting China 60 years later, i.e., in 2010.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Featuring artists from Brooklyn, Buenos Aires, Delray Beach (FL) and Montreal.
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Take a Tour of Detroit with an Insider's View
LOS ANGELES — One Day in Detroit is a crowdsourced tour guide experience with a simple goal.