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The History of Jewelry, from Ancient Mesopotamia to Today
While the pieces on display are beautiful, The Met's Jewelry: The Body Transformed exhibition is lacking in curatorial vision, dividing the objects into blandly-broad thematic sections.
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A Virtual Reality App that Reconstructs Ancient Rome May Have Exploited Its Developers
The virtual reality tour of Rome at the heart of Rome Reborn started as a digital humanities project collaboratively developed by dozens of artists, classicists, archaeologists, and 3D modelers.
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Refugees Connect Their Personal Stories with a Museum’s Ancient Artifacts
The Global Guides program at the Penn Museum hires recent refugees from the Middle East to give personalized tours. The leader of my tour was Moumena Saradar, a refugee from Syria who has lived in Philadelphia for two years.
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Opening Up the White Cube
By asking what is and is not allowed, for whom, and who is writing the rules Curriculum at EFA Project Space offers tangible opportunities to challenge viewers' thinking.
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LA’s First Spring/Break Art Show Had Plenty of Creative Spirit
The curator-centric fair gave space for artists to pay tribute to Los Angeles in a spirit of DIY-fun.
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A Regime Conceals Its Erasure of Indigenous Armenian Culture
A groundbreaking forensic report tracks Azerbaijan’s recent destruction of 89 medieval churches, 5,840 intricate cross-stones, and 22,000 tombstones.
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Required Reading
This week, surrealist photography, the new anti-semitism, fighting the corporatization of Burning Man, the monotony of contemporary architecture, Lagos's art scene, and more.
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Jasper Johns’s Messengers of Aging and Mortality
In these works, we are looking at a merging of organization and dissipation, an image of our destiny.
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Leonor Fini’s Erotic Theater
Fini’s art disarmed male authority and dissolved gender norms, with delicate, nude men attended by sumptuously dressed, leonine females.
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Jessica Campbell and the Ghost of Emily Carr
Campbell implies that there has been one constant in the experiences of women across generations: the sexual aggression of men.
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Placing Art in Hotel Rooms Can Yield Genuinely Surprising Results
At the inaugural Felix Art Fair in Los Angeles, visitors can weave in and out of the poolside rooms with relative ease, though expect the usual hustle-and-bustle feel of art commerce in action.
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Black as a Sensory Experience
In PURE, VERY, NEW, Paul Stephen Benjamin's conceptual art pushes the boundaries of the color black and offers new experiences of sound, vision, and light.