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Climate Change Data Set to Music to Serenade a Warming Planet
A cellist has composed a haunting song that turns charted data of climate change into an ominous serenade.
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The First 3D Database of Fossils, Which You Can Even Print
To improve their online visuals and connect a number of museum collections, the British Geological Service launched the first database of 3D fossils last week.
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Art Rx
As we head into September, summer exhibitions are winding down. This week is your last chance to see five of the big ones at museums around town.
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America's Newest Art Pilgrimage: Bentonville, Arkansas
BENTONVILLE, Ark. — “Capital isn't scarce; vision is.” This flippant platitude was once uttered by Sam Walton, the founder of the importunately ubiquitous Wal-Mart empire. One wonders what “Mr. Sam” would have to say about that after taking a gander at Bentonville today, the pint-sized hometown of o
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On the Origin of Selfies
CHICAGO — A selfie is a certain type of self-portrait photography shot with a digital camera or smartphone. Selfies are typically of-the-moment images, require little to no planning, and usually occur in domestic settings such as the bedroom or bathroom.
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Ken Price’s Time
I was very happy to see the exhibition, but I was not surprised that Ken Price (1935–2012) had to wait until he was safe in heaven dead to have his first museum show in New York, Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
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Stay Cool: Art, August, and Acid
Do you like your art hot or cool? A summer show at DCKT Contemporary brimming with youthful energy splits the difference, serving up a carte du jour of candy-colored formalism or post-neo-conceptual Pop, depending on how you look at it.
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Wasted Wonder: Picturing Science, but Not Explaining It
Winding my way past the American Museum of Natural History’s giant elephants and intricate dioramas, toward the exhibition Picturing Science, my fantasies bloomed. I prepared to be awed by the beautiful miracle of biology and by the power of the technology that lets us see it. But, upon reaching the
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The Sharpest Photographs Ever Taken of the Night Sky
A new technology is allowing astronomers to take sharper than ever photographs of the night sky, revealing secrets of the solar system and the universe beyond.
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Mid-Century Illustration Maps Folkloric Americana
John Henry with his hammer, Rip Van Winkle taking a snooze, the Celebrated Jumping Frog rests alongside Coronado scaling a mountain, while Babe the Blue Ox sprints towards the famous Idaho potato. All these figures of American folklore are sprawled across the United States in a 1946 map by artist Wi
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A New Documentary Lays Bare the Gender Bias in Comics
CHICAGO — Why is it that comics continue to be read mostly as a white, heterosexual, and masculine medium when that's clearly, totally, not at all the case?
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Celebrating Female Game Designers
While a recent report showed that almost half of those who play video games are women, the representation of women in game design is much lower. To increase female visibility, and in the hopes of encouraging would-be designers, the Museum of Design Atlanta is hosting the first exhibition on women as