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Slicing Up Eyeballs in a Surrealist Game
The startling 1929 surrealist silent film Un Chien Andalou made by Luis Buñuel in collaboration with Salvador Dalí is now a deeply unsettling video game.
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Embracing Old Age in New York
It was in hopes of casting a more loving and empathetic spotlight on the elderly that Patrícia Monteiro created her series Life Ever After.
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Lively Artworks That Make Room for the Mind
There is this one particular color of paint that appears in many of the paintings by Etel Adnan on view right now at Galerie Lelong in New York.
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Sum of the Arts
Years the Hubble Space Telescope has been photographing the universe from above our atmosphere = 25
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Explore a Surreal Performance Parody of Google Street View
Over the course of six weeks and with a cast of hundreds, a Belgian theater company seized control of over six miles of streets in the city of Mons to stage surreal spectacles including flying kayakers, crowds of angels, and a taxidermy deer transforming into a donkey.
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Art X Detroit Lives Up to the City’s Vibrant Cultural Life
DETROIT — Trying to notice the impact of the Kresge Foundation on the arts in Detroit is like a fish trying to notice water.
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Humans Swallowed by the Extreme Geometry of Architecture
The work of Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar shows a striking mix of vibrant colors and stark architectural geometry.
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Using Fiction to Map the Emotional Geography of Victorian London
The Stanford Literary Lab has plotted quotes from over 700 19th-century authors who mentioned locations in London in order to compose concentrations of dread or happiness.
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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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From the Couches to the Conservation Labs, the Whitney Museum's New Building
They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
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An Opera Filmed at the Largest Particle Physics Lab in the World
A movie set amongst the machines of CERN, the world's largest particle physics facility, considers how both art and science strive to understand the universe, and what it is to be human.
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Liberating the Anonymous Figures in Old Master Paintings
In the past year, obscure figures from master paintings in museums around the world have been moonlighting as street art, thanks to a project called Outings.