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The First 100 Years of Camera Advertising
Ever since the invention of photography, we've been deeply fascinated by cameras and the images they produce.
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Remixing the Renaissance as GIFs
By now it's become a familiar trope: Photoshop or GIF something historical, say, Old Masters or old photographs. But just because it's been done doesn't mean it's been done best. And the elaborate GIFs that James Kerr makes from early Northern Renaissance paintings are a hilariously new take on the
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ArtRx LA
This week in Los Angeles, shake off any post-Fourth-of-July sloth with a variety of screenings, lectures, and performances.
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Painting as Super Model
Yve-Alain Bois’s book Painting as Model was written twenty odd years ago and continues to be an important text, providing conceptual fodder for many contemporary art practices.
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Jackson Pollock's Renaissance Connection
FLORENCE, Italy — The city of Florence is paying homage to Jackson Pollock, well-known for his all-over syncretistic paintings, by connecting his work to that of Michelangelo’s.
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Artistic Revelations from Ancient Southeast Asia
With Lost Kingdoms: Hindu-Buddhist Sculpture of Early Southeast Asia, 5th to 8th Century, the Metropolitan Museum of Art once again proves its stature as a world-class museum — not just because of its collections, size, or location, but because it is one of the few institutions in the world that can
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Painting Layered Portraits of Emotion
CHICAGO — Greetings, Margot Bergman's fourth solo exhibition at Corbett vs. Dempsey, feels like a gesture to the gesture in its titular painting.
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First-ever Instagram Video Series Lampoons the Art World
The deadbeat artist. The streetside genius. The greedy gallerist and vacuous collector. Spend much time in the often elite and mystifying art world, and you're bound to discover some truth in each stereotype. But if you'd rather not, just watch Artistically Challenged, a comedic new "television seri
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Dress as Fine Art: 19th-Century Self-Improvement Manuals
In the 19th century, when books were more available to the public, titles on how to improve yourself were among the most prevalent. The New York Public Library's Art & Architecture Collection recently posted some of the more curious ones online.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, there's a lot of performance going on across New York, so we have prepared a shortlist of what is worth seeing. And may I suggest you check out the 10th Annual Hip-Hop Festival.
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Bringing Back a Lost Museum
In 1945, workers at Brown University's biology department were clearing out storage space when they stumbled on a giant trove of natural and ethnographic specimens and artifacts.
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3D Printing Coney Island's Bygone Electric Eden
Luna Park at Coney Island was an "electric Eden" of spindly towers and ornate architecture laced with some 250,000 lights. The amusement park was closed in 1944 after a catastrophic fire, and mostly photographs remain. To recapture some of the lost wonder, artist Fred Kahl is building a 3D-printed f