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Rebooting the Legacy of a Woman Who Made Video Games for Girls
Theresa Duncan made a series of CD-ROM games in the 1990s aimed at young girls, encouraging imagination and adventure through playfully drawn, dreamlike narratives.
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Creating Community Space Inside a Dumpster
Of all the places to set up an "inflatable classroom" and community event space, a dumpster seems among the most improbable.
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Uterus Man, Pelvis Chariot, and the Irreverent Video Games of Lu Yang
If there’s any space that both parallels and accommodates Lu Yang’s highly exhilarating and provocative works, it's a sprawling arcade, a cornucopia of weirdness and inappropriate ideas.
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A Diverse but Directionless Survey of American Art Today
BENTONVILLE, Arkansas — The recently minted Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art in Bentonville, Arkansas, has mounted a prodigious exhibition of contemporary art titled State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now.
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Exploring Life's Dead Ends on Repeat
Station Independent Projects, a sliver of space on the Lower East Side, is currently presenting a video piece by Pierre St-Jacques that not only transcends the medium's clichés, but is a work of such intense longing and beauty that stepping back out onto the hubbub of Suffolk Street is a shock.
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Art That Was Always Meant to Be Hidden
The portraits in Oliver Jeffers' Dipped Paintings series exist as wholes only in the memories of those who witnessed their submersion.
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Saying Goodbye to the Old Whitney Museum with a Digital Drug Trip
Last night the Whitney Museum said goodbye to its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue with a gala and party. There, the institution announced the opening date of its new home in the Meatpacking District — May 1, 2015 — and unveiled the last artwork commissioned for the Breuer building.
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25 Years of Photographing NASA's Abandoned Launch Sites
Photographer Roland Miller has spent 25 years gaining access to abandoned NASA sites across the United States, capturing their history and strange imagery before they disappear.
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The Origins and Evolution of Group ZERO
There are undoubtedly many stories attributed to the founding of ZERO in post-World War II Germany, as there were with the inception of Dada during the earlier Great War that raged outside the Swiss borders from 1914–18.
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Marking Portraits with the Passage of Time
David Mramor’s glamorous pathos is a precise and nuanced excavation of the layers inherent in the steady march of time — a journey, perhaps, toward a painterly manifestation of the punctum.
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Let Them Eat Art: Queens Through the Ages
In her infamous speech at the British Museum last year, writer Hilary Mantel described Kate Middleton, future queen of England, as a “shop-window mannequin” whose sole purpose was to look pretty and give birth.
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Nam June Paik's Robot Dreams
Nam June Paik: Becoming Robot, organized by the Asia Society Museum, is the first solo show of the Korean-born artist in New York City since his celebrated 2000 Guggenheim retrospective.