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How the Re-Opening of the Public Domain "Has Allowed Us to Have Our Culture Back”
In 2019, thousands of artworks from 1923 entered the public domain. Speakers from Creative Commons, the Internet Archive, and other places share why this matters.
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Unmissable Documentaries, Noirs, and More Movies You Can Stream Right Now
From a criminally overlooked noir to a nearly 13-hour epic, the internet has plenty to offer.
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Julio Le Parc's Brilliant Op Art Beginnings
The Argentinian modernist tried obsessively to bring order to chaos, even in the midst of unrelenting flux.
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Required Reading
This week, a paradise of glass, Edward Burne-Jones, thinking critically about the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, ketchup caviar, and more.
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James Siena Changes His Approach
Siena’s paintings and drawings have become a maze of marks that he seems in no hurry to escape. They are odes to anonymous labor.
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Dreams of Beauty in Japanese Ukiyo-e Paintings
The figures in The Floating World indicate the new direction Japanese art was about to take over the next two centuries, its growing emphasis on daily life.
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British Rock Meets Modernism
Clive Arrowsmith’s photographs of Peter Gabriel spotlight a short-lived era when rock aspired to the condition of art.
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What Freedom Costs
Two exhibitions in Vienna take on the fragility of democratic structures.
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Louise Lawler’s Quiet Melancholy
If Lawler’s works were originally read as art about art, they now feel like art for art’s sake.
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Photographs of Women That Capture Ancestral Trauma
In Yes, and the body has memory, a group of women photographers grapples with notions of trauma, family, ancestral connections, and the female body.
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Viktor & Rolf Make Memeified Couture for a New Generation
Instead of designing couture that the masses would memeify, Viktor & Rolf designed memes that just happen to be couture.
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Mesmerized and Saddened by the Illusion of Sunlight
This is the kind of work we will share when we have so laid waste to the planet that most of what the world will have access to is this kind of simulacra.