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A Bookmobile Becomes a Book
Remember the thrill of finding the library bookmobile as a kid? I do.
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Art Rx
This week, the ruminations of a pioneering hip-hop photographer, a massive show of Italian Futurism, and the last chance to see Julie Ault's collection at Artists Space.
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Real or Not? New York Hotel Flaunts Contested Keith Haring Painting
High up among the stars, red and green dancers wriggle. They squiggle across the upturned belly of a writhing, orange snake, itself carried aloft by two bold stick figures. It’s obviously a Keith Haring work. Or at least it looks like one. But in case you had questions, a golden plaque beside it ann
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What's Your Selfie Pleasure?
LOS ANGELES — This week, a new selfie trend pissed people off. Jason Feiffer, the same guy who dug around on Instagram and discovered funeral selfies, discovered the creepy "selfies with homeless people" trend.
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Models of Frank Lloyd Wright's Utopia Show the Architect as City Planner
Frank Lloyd Wright believed dense urban cities would never make it into the next century. He wrote that "the citizen of the near future preferring horizontality — the gift of his motorcar, and telephonic or telegraphic inventions — will turn and reject verticality as the body of any American city."
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Forensic Observer: The Recent Paintings of Josephine Halvorson
Josephine Halvorson transcribes the anonymous, weather-beaten traces left by those who might otherwise have left no other mark of their existence behind.
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A Tale of Two Cities: Charles Marville's Photographs of Paris before Haussmann
The life of French photographer Charles Marville, the subject of a retrospective currently at the Metropolitan Museum, comes down to us hazy in its contours. Born Charles-François Bossu in 1813 to a family of artisans and tradesmen, Marville rid himself of “Bossu” (hunchback) after being teased abou
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It’s a Man’s World: Inside a Postwar Art Time Capsule
There may be some great-looking specimens of postwar art in Re-View: Onnasch Collection — an exhibition that turns Hauser & Wirth’s cavernous Chelsea outpost into a mini-museum offering the kind of intimate experiences that have been all but lost in New York’s uptown behemoths — but the show also ar
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A Brutal and Beautiful Planet: The 2014 World Press Photo Winners
The 2014 World Press Photo contest awardees were announced today, with the winners for the major photojournalism prize showing both the wonder and violence of the past year.
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No Longer the Parsley to the Roast: Landscape Architect Dan Kiley's Legacy
Few major architects have centennial exhibitions highlighting how some of their works are "dying quiet deaths," but that is part of the legacy of Dan Kiley.
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Excavating the Music Hidden in Bosch's "Garden of Earthly Delights"
Have you ever noticed the musical notes tattooed on some unfortunate soul in Hieronymus Bosch's "The Garden of Earthly Delights"?
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Russian and American Artists Respond to Natural Disasters
It is tempting to feel you’ve subdued nature when a hand-held device allows you to peruse newspapers from Beirut to Sydney, or purchase an airline seat that will get you to either city the next day. Fortunately — or unfortunately, depending on what we now refer to as your GPS coordinates — there are