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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.
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Hanging Art in a Broom Closet
On my last trip to Chelsea, hoping to find something unusual, I was largely disappointed. Making my way through the crowded beehive gallery building at 526 West 26th Street, I felt doom encroach upon my heart, as each show struck at me with numbing sameness. Then, I suddenly and happily stumbled upo
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Ai Weiwei: "Never Retreat, Retweet"
Alison Klayman’s 90-minute film Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry set out to be a portrait of the Chinese artist Ai Weiwei and along the way morphed into a highbrow, jaw-dropping reality show about fumbling, corrupt governments (China), social media (Twitter), democracy and art (Weiwei) and the power of the st
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Procrastination Secrets? Find an Artist Buddy
LOS ANGELES — I'd been meaning to write a post like this for a while now. I've been thinking about the concept of "procrastiworking", i.e., how we can make productive use of our instinct to procrastinate.
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South of the Border: Going Deep for Bushwick Open Studios
I live in Bushwick. I don’t have a hip loft and there are no artisan flea markets, coffee shops or health food stores. Out by the cemetery, in what is technically Bushwick, but is a stone’s throw from Bed-Stuy and East New York, I naively assumed I was a lone outpost of the art world. I couldn’t hav
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Dumbo's New Recycled Watertower
As either an antidote or a companion (depending on your view) to its uber-expensive and iconic Clock Tower building, Brooklyn's Dumbo neighborhood will get a different kind of tower this week — a water tower, which is actually a giant art project, a large and colorful public sculpture by Brooklyn ar