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Obama Portraits Tour Adds New Stops In San Francisco and Boston
The paintings were set to return to Washington, DC, but will instead go to the de Young Museum and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
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New York
Jennifer Packer Shows Us the Responsibility of Seeing
Most everything in this show, is unsure, a maybe, might be there, might not be, could fulfill your hopes, might leave them by the side of the road.
Art
Transcendental Painting Lives on in New Mexico and Beyond
The group of self-identified idealists, active until 1942, created nonrepresentational paintings of and from the creative imagination.
Art
Appreciating the Performative Quality of Computer Generated Art
Can electronic generative art be interpreted as performance with machines instead of bodies? What if we are too focused on results, rather than the process?
Art
The Secretive, Ritual Objects of Masonic Groups
Though masonic fraternal groups have existed for centuries, their rites and methods have long been shrouded in secrecy.
Film
Three Minutes of Film Are All That Remain of a Polish Jewish Town Before the Holocaust
What can be learned from just a short clip from a 1938 vacation film? The documentary Three Minutes — A Lengthening shows that it can be quite a bit.
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The Most Hilarious Memes About Putin and Macron's Bizarre Kremlin Meeting
The exchange may have been a diplomatic failure, but it has yielded one of the best memes of the year so far.
News
In a Georgia Elementary School, a Gay Rights Artwork Was Taken Down And Compared To a Nazi Symbol
In a leaked audio, the principal said that “children are going home and asking questions to parents who are…not ready to have that conversation at this age."
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Get Inspired On Your Commute With New Poetry In NYC Subways
Agha Shahid Ali and Timothy Liu's poems feature artwork by Jim Hodges and Nancy Spero.
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Art Dealer Barbara Gladstone Accused of Abuse, Retaliation, and Discrimination in Lawsuit
A former staffer claims she was "yelled at, disparaged," and once physically assaulted by dealer Barbara Gladstone.
Art
Communist Heroes Die Standing Tall in a Budapest Park
Uprooted and soulless, the stone and metal statues at Memento Park have long outlived the world that gave birth to them.
Opinion
The Power of Cities to Serve the Arts Needs to be Harnessed
An ordinance passed last year in Burlington, Vermont, directs city funds for public art only to work that is permanent and purchased from individual artists.