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Discovering Tutankhamun with Photographer Harry Burton
In 1922, the Egyptologist Howard Carter asked the Metropolitan Museum of Art to lend him the services of Harry Burton, a photographer then working for the Museum's Egyptian expedition.
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Silence Is Enough: On Emily Jacir
Silenced, erased, censored — how then to represent this loss, this nothingness?
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Kissing for Art's Sake
In Jedediah Johnson’s photo series The Makeout Project, he deconstructs the kiss into the essentials of the act itself.
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A Zoo Where Animals Run Free and Humans Are Confined
Imagine a zoo where animals are free to roam while humans quietly observe. Danish architects BIG (Bjarke Ingels Group) set out to make this a reality with their plan for redesigning Zootopia, a zoo in the city of Givskud.
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Artifacts of a Patriarchy that Was and Wasn’t
LOS ANGELES — The Paternal Suit: Heirlooms from the F. Scott Hess Family Foundation, on view at the Long Beach Museum of Art, is an exhibition that examines the imperfect influence of patriarchs and fathers on American history and American families.
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How to Compose a Song for 1,000 Years
In composing a song to play for 1,000 years, the variables of technology, societal upheaval, and public understanding cannot be overlooked.
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Artist's 100-Year Project Will Grow Books from Saplings
It takes a certain measure of both hubris and selflessness to create an artwork that won't be completed until long after your death. Scottish artist Katie Paterson's "Future Library" begins this year and will come to fruition in 100.
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A House for Holograms on Governors Island
For the summer the Center for the Holographic Arts, that organization dedicated to mindbending 3D art, has a new home on Governors Island in one of the yellow houses that line leafy Nolan Park.
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Kitsch, Myth, and Technology: Japanese Art in the West
Art scholar Michio Hayashi theorized that the popular perception of “Japaneseness” in the West was cemented in the 1980s by triangulating “kitsch hybridity,” “primordial nature,” and “technological sophistication.”
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ArtRx LA: Summer Day Trips
This week, we're all about summer day getaways. That perfect trip that will change your perspective and mood, while exposing you to something out of the ordinary.
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A Very Personal Art History of the Motor City
With ruin porn photographs and discussions of whether creativity can save Detroit persisting at every turn, it was only a matter of time before someone organized an art exhibition about the city. That time has come.
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Divisions of Labor: 'Capitalist Realism' at Artists Space
From Baudelaire's 1859 dismissal of photography on down, the image-culture of the petit bourgeois "mob" has long served as a provocation to artistic thought, a relationship that reached its most literal apogee in the West with the Pop Art of the 20th century.