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A Butterfly for Brooklyn: Judy Chicago Turns 75
Last Saturday night, a crowd gathered in Prospect Park for a 20-minute pyrotechnic performance, "A Butterfly for Brooklyn," by feminist art icon Judy Chicago in honor of her 75th birthday.
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New York City Subway Maps Across Time
Municipal signage and schematics, as design firm Pentagram's recent work on New York's beach and parking signage attests, can play a significant role in (re)defining the character of urban space.
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Keeping Up With the Selfies
LOS ANGELES — The biggest selfie news of the past week comes from drones, which have spawned a new selfie category: the dronie.
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For Peter Dreher, Every Day Is a Good Day
Peter Dreher was born in Mannheim, Germany, in 1932, the same year as his fellow countryman, Gerhard Richter. Like Richter, Dreher was an adolescent by the war’s end, an inheritor of an unwanted legacy, which haunts his work to this day. At the same time, Dreher might be seen as the antithesis of Ri
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Sex as Renewable Resource: The Philosophical View
Here’s an attention-grabber to whip out next time you’re at a party with a bunch of New School grad students: Riddle: What do Catholic priests and Patrick Bateman have in common?
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Crowdsourcing the Bronze Age in a New Platform for Archaeology
Some of the most significant records on human history remain inaccessible to a wide audience. A new open source crowdsourcing platform called MicroPasts is looking to involve online amateurs in collaborations with professional archaeologists to create digital records of archive collections.
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Breaking the Ground Between Art and Architecture
In recent years, the connections between architecture, art, and design have, in many cases, become inextricably bound to another in a kind of symbiotic relationship. For some observers, architecture appears relevant to the twenty-first century only when it emulates an abstract sculptural presence.
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Robert Capa's Color Film
Famed for his iconic black-and-white images from war’s torn edge — humane, harrowing snapshots of the Spanish Civil War and World War II — Robert Capa also carried on an enduring exchange in color film. Beginning in earnest in 1941 and continuing until his tragic death 13 years later, Capa shot thou
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Thunderbirds and Underwater Panthers in an Overlooked American Indian Art History
The Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian in New York is holding the first major survey of art by Anishinaabe artists in the Great Lakes region, with over a hundred works from artists both contemporary and ancient, all linked by the 10,000-year history of human settlement in the area.
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A Dark Assemblage of Doll Parts in a Hidden Upper East Side Gallery
Casa de Costa's new location on the Upper East Side takes over the two floors of a 19th century carriage house secreted behind an apartment building.
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Welcoming a New Gallery to Williamsburg
History has it that over the past two decades, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, has gentrified beyond recovery and its flourishing art scene picked up and gone elsewhere. This may be partly true, but not entirely. There are still artists and galleries in Williamsburg.
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All Wrong About Lower Manhattan: Rereading Sharon Zukin
In the course of writing The Rise and Fall of Artists’ SoHo (Routledge), I read several earlier books about lofts and artists in lower Manhattan. The most embarrassing by far, in spite of some research worth crediting, was Sharon Zukin’s Loft Living: Culture and Capital in Urban Change.