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In the State of Nevada, This Land Is Not Your Land
WENDOVER, UTAH — Land use has got to be one of the least sexy topics of conversation.
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An Atlas Gathers the Most Creative Contemporary Maps
Considering how long the earth's been around, you'd think it would have already been exhaustively charted. But in recent years, mapmaking has exploded.
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Impressions of New York City Streets Captured in Clay
Artists Liene Bosquê and Nicole Seisler are roaming the streets of the Lower East Side in April with a cart full of clay, ready to be pressed by willing hands onto the built environment.
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Looking Beyond the Myths of the Everglades
Curator Tim Wride was surprised when he first visited the Florida Everglades a few years ago.
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What Happens When You Try to Photoshop Money
When I was editing our story about Canadians "spocking" their $5 bills, I discovered something curious: you can't Photoshop money.
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A Black-and-White Gallery Tour of Chelsea
Contemporary artists and a few artists from yesteryear are exploring unorthodox and atypical ways to experience the contrast between black and white.
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Crystal Balls of Cast-off Technology Illuminate a Park in Manhattan
Experiencing Paula Hayes’s Gazing Globes in Madison Square Park is recommended for after sunset, when the spheres are illuminated in the night like crystal balls of divination.
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The Lost Lectures Returns to NYC on June 5, 2015
After last year's knockout Knockdown Lost adventure with Amanda Lepore, Blood Orange, Choire Sicha, and many others, we're taking another bold step into the hidden core of New York City and are excited to bring you The Lost Lectures NY – Number Two.
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Lost in the Darkness of Baroque Paintings
PARIS — In these paintings, you’ll find wine and drunken excess, along with all the accompanying decadent behavior: insult, turbulence, transgression, sacrilege, and provocation.
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The Last Rooms Immigrants See Before Being Deported
LONDON — At the heart of artist, writer, and technologist James Bridle’s project is the notion that the images that we are not shown are just as carefully selected as the ones we are: in this day and age, visual concealment is tactical, not accidental.
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Relics of a Future Environmental Collapse
Lina Puerta makes ruin porn on an unusually intimate scale.
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The Push and Pull of Claiming an Irish Heritage
DUBLIN — We all have that one story we tell, about a crazy thing we did when we were younger. Few of us make a commissioned art installation about it.