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Turning a Clothesline into a Powerful Feminist Statement
Artist Mónica Mayer's multifaceted El Tendedero/The Clothesline Project uses a symbol of domesticity to generate dialogue and support taking ownership of feminist issues and experiences.
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A 200-Year-Old Dance Celebrates Anti-Colonial Resistance
The Wanaragua Association of Los Angeles will perform the masquerade dance that dates back to the mid-18th century, when the Garifuna repelled British colonizers.
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The Unsung Portraits of Bartolomé Esteban Murillo
The show at the Frick Collection foregrounds the artist's inventive portraits, which are not as well known as his religious paintings.
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The Smallest Mollusk Museum Brings Science Education to Unexpected Places
The Smallest Mollusk Museum is the first project from MICRO, a New York-based nonprofit building six-foot-tall museums to share science education in public places.
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Zoom Through European Art History in An Endless Vortex of Paintings
A software engineer at Google used the computer vision program Deep Dream to create the mesmerizing, slightly dizzying video.
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From the Functional to Found, an Artist Couple’s Experiments in Clay
Whereas Virginia Rose Torrence embeds fruit rinds into her mosaics, Henry James Haver Crissman sells functional pottery.
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The West African Roots of a Masquerade Garment in Brazil
A priest of Ifá divination and an art historian discuss the masquerades of Yoruba religion and how they evolved in the Americas.
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The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
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The Pregnant Silence Pervading Paintings of Libraries
Zsofia Schweger's paintings in Cataloguing Time remind me of a poem by Wallace Stevens.
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Happy Public Domain Day! Works by Magritte and 9 Other Artists Are Now Copyright-Free
Happy Public Domain Day 2018! Here are 10 artists whose work is leaving copyright (although not in the United States).
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Happy Public Domain Day! Works by Magritte and 9 Other Artists Are Now Copyright-Free
Happy Public Domain Day 2018! Here are 10 artists whose work is leaving copyright (although not in the United States).
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Required Reading
This week, New Andean Architecture, decoding an Inca communication system, women at the Uffizi, "queer" as refusal, some 'best of' lists, and more.