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A Church-Turned-Skate Park in St. Louis Is Raising Funds for an Arts Center
Sk8 Liborius, which has run the space since 2012, wants to turn it into an arts hub for under-resourced youth.
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Taylor Swift Now Has a Millipede Named After Her
If you spot this little guy crawling on you, just stay calm and shake it off, shake it off!
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UAE Sentenced a Palestinian Artist to Death for Drug Possession
The artist maintains she was framed after an Emirati police search found half a kilogram of cocaine in her Dubai apartment.
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Acquavella Galleries Presents Unnatural Nature: Post-Pop Landscapes
Curated by Todd Bradway and presented concurrently at Acquavella’s NYC and Palm Beach locations, this group exhibition features landscape paintings by 28 contemporary artists.
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CURRENTS New Media Launches 13th Annual Art & Technology Festival in Santa Fe
This multi-venue festival features over 70 artworks ranging from interactive installation and sound performance to video and augmented reality.
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Required Reading
This week, a rare fossil is discovered, a new book on artist Niki de Saint Phalle is published, the erasure of women philosophers continues, a culinary map of China, and much more.
Art
Gloria Graham Records the Movement of the Earth
Graham is inspired by science and draws on her deep knowledge of it, which ranges from chemistry and molecular structures to botany.
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Wendy Red Star's Empowered Vision of Crow History
One of Red Star’s many strengths is her ability to examine both the past and what’s still to come.
Podcast
Tamara Lanier's Fight for the Photographs of Her Enslaved Ancestors at Harvard
In this episode of the Hyperallergic podcast, Lanier talks about her continuing quest for justice that includes the return of the daguerreotypes depicting her enslaved ancestors.
Books
Diane di Prima’s Autobiographical Work Never Received the Same Attention as Her Poetry
After her closest friend leapt to his death, the poet recorded her memories of him every day for a year.
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Seattle Art Museum Guards Are Trying to Unionize, But It Hasn’t Been Easy
Some workers at the museum say they’ve experienced “aggressive union-busting tactics” since organizing.
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A Tall and Skinny NYC Skyscraper Is Being Compared to a Coffee Stirrer
The super tall and skinny skyscraper, affectionately dubbed “the coffee stirrer,” was built at a 24:1 height-to-width ratio.