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From Farming to Ethics, How the Ancient World Lived Sustainably
Historians explore older methods of sustainable living, from Ancient Greece to the Mayan Civilization.
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The Artist Who Sketched a Famine in India
Chittaprosad, an artist known for his sketches and prints and who documented a famine in the book Hungry Bengal, began his artistic tenure as an illustrator and sketch artist for the Communist Party of India in the early 1940s.
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Required Reading
This week, Hubble Space Telescope turns 28, IKEA might develop a hotel, democracy vs. the algorithm, is Instagram over, Etel Adnan's color, angry geek culture, and more.
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Scott Stack Rethinks the Rules of Op Art
A number of Stack’s paintings look as if a storm swept through the repetitive patterns of Op Art, breaking them into shards.
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Judy Ledgerwood’s Blunt Celebrations of Female Sexuality
A delicious tension animates Ledgerwood’s combination of decorous pattern and thick, dripping paint.
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Empire of Vampires
Squirming like leeches for the favor of Lord High Bloodsucker, Count Trump.
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A Painter's Extraterrestrial Journey Through the Light of Day
In recent decades, living and working in and around Cape Cod, Paul Resika’s imagery has veered between the naturalistic and the mythical.
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Philip Guston's Echoes
One of the defining features of Guston’s last decade is a paradoxical faith in the elusiveness of truth.
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Google Unveils Incredibly Detailed 3D Models of At-Risk Heritage Sites
"Open Heritage" features digitized, 3D models of over 25 locations from around the world, signaling the start of a major chapter for the field of digital archaeology.
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Bringing the Signs and Textures of South Central LA into the Museum
Lauren Halsey's site-specific installation transforms the typically austere space of the museum into a utopian dream made of the people, symbols, and imagery of South Central Los Angeles.
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Rediscovering the Studio Photographer Who Captivated Amsterdam's Art Scene in the 1990s
Lee To Sang’s photographs, paradoxically, free his subjects from being defined by the picture, and instead capture subjects who are vastly more expansive than who they appear to be in front of the camera.
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Bringing Our Social Media Spaces and Selves into the Gallery
An exhibition at the University of Denver features installations that substitute digital spaces and images for embodied replicas, and vice versa.