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Tokyo's World-Renowned Capsule Tower Will Be Demolished
After years of disrepair, architect Kisho Kurokawa's iconic building will be disassembled one capsule at a time.
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Frankenthaler Foundation Provides $2.5M to Support Ukrainian Artists and Cultural Heritage
The funding will also support artists at risk in Belarus, Russia, and other countries.
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The Anchorage Museum Asks: Can Pandemic Storytelling Help Heal Divided Communities?
The Alaska museum is teaming up with a local writer and newspaper to help its community reconnect in a world changed by COVID.
Art
Four Chicago Galleries Explore the Art of Arranging
An ingenious arrangement can engender awareness of spatial relationships, provide a much-needed sense of order, or offer purely aesthetic mysteries.
Art
Shadow Play and the Art of Utako Shindo
Utako Shindo is interested in transitional passages and hinge experiences, or what she calls the “in-between spatiality.”
Art
An Artist's Multi-Species Mythology, Inspired by Her Cat
Set in a realm where humans are no longer sovereign, Candice Lin's elaborate installation foregrounds the lives and deaths of felines, critters, microbes, and demons in a practice of making kin.
Art
The Art of Painting Divine Domes
Harout Bastajian has built a career painting calligraphic and geometric designs for the domes of mosques around the world. The results are stunning.
Opinion
Where a New African Museum Fits in a Post-colonial World
The question remains: Is an African museum, designed by an African architect, capable of undoing the institutional violence that it has inherited?
Film
With Inland Empire, David Lynch Crafted a Nightmare on Home Video
Through a suitably unusual remastering process, the famed surreal artist/filmmaker’s last feature film to date can be experienced in a whole new way.
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Getty Acquires LA Bookseller's Vast Black Art Archive
Whitney and Lee Kaplan's collection includes some 3,500 artist’s books, catalogs, magazines, zines, and rare ephemera.
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US Authorities Seized 13 Looted Asian Artifacts From Yale University
Nine of the items were linked to disgraced New York antiquities dealer Subhash Kapoor.
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At the Prado, Visitors Can Inhale the Smells of a Brueghel Painting
The Madrid museum collaborated with a fragrance company to create ten scents of items seen in the masterpiece "The Sense of Smell."