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The Next Best Thing: Photos from The Lost Lectures NY
Last Friday's The Lost Lectures New York was an overwhelming success in our book.
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Learning from James Baldwin
2014 is the “Year of James Baldwin” for New York City. Several major cultural organizations, including New York Live Arts, Columbia University, the New School’s Vera List Center for Art and Politics, and Harlem Stage, are partnering to present a series of talks, events, performances and intervention
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Scratching the Surface of Things
SAN FRANCISCO — “ … Instead of feelings or human adventures,” wrote Francis Ponge, the French Surrealist “poet of things” in 1942, “I choose as subjects the most emotionless objects available.”
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Sowing Wildflowers Across Los Angeles as Hyperlocal Public Art
Fifty sites in Los Angeles are now blooming with beautiful wildflowers as part of an artist-led initiative to bring back native flora to the city's open spaces.
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Pushing Paper in Quebec
MONTREAL — Entry was free but the carpet still red, a rain-sodden lilt up entrance stairs. And under drab skies the people came. Here, tonguing the periphery of Montreal's infamous red light district, was Papier14, the works-on-paper fair's seventh annual iteration.
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American Museum of Natural History Launches Online Archives with Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman
This Monday the American Museum of Natural History launched a new digital platform with thousands of images from their archives. It kicked off the initiative with an event featuring two artists who have been profoundly influenced by its collections.
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Designing Spaces for a Better Death
As life spans extend and the window of time in which we experience death widens — hospital visits, hospice care, nursing homes, funeral homes — some architects are considering how we can better design for this final chapter.
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An American Doing Things
BERLIN — Through a quaint garden off the back porch of the main gallery of Haus am Lützowplatz is a small basement gallery filled with video works, handwritten texts, props from performances, sculpture, and other memorabilia by the Louisville-born, Berlin-based artist Brad Downey.
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Art Rx
Warhol lands in Queens, Bochner at Manhattan's Jewish Museum, and a Monet "Water Lilies" painting is on view for the first time since 1923.
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Faith Ringgold's Unrealized Tribute to Harlem Literary Life
A little-known depiction of Harlem literary life and African-American literature by Faith Ringgold is currently on view at the New York Public Library in its exhibition The ABC of It: Why Children's Books Matter.
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Sunshine Tinged with Noir at Paris Photo LA
LOS ANGELES — The red carpet at Paramount Pictures Studios didn’t lead to a movie premiere or an awards ceremony, but rather the Lower East Side — or at least its facsimile in the studio’s New York backlot, where brownstone and cast-iron buildings hosted pop-up galleries and bookshops. This was the
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Study Finds US Cultural Consumers Are Social and Promiscuous
This morning a group of some 200 arts professionals gathered at the TimesCenter, an event space owned by the New York Times, to hear the latest results from Culture Track, an ongoing study that follows Americans' participation in cultural events.