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Preparing the Dead in a Quiet Game About a Mortician’s Life
A Mortician's Tale is a contemplative video game in which players embalm and cremate bodies, and attend to the funerals of the dead.
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Can Social Tagging Deepen the Museum Experience?
Museums are reimagining their archives, their collections, and their relationship to their visitors through social tagging.
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How the GOP’s Tax Reform Could Hurt Art Institutions
Museums, nonprofits, private collections, and other art institutions may be significantly affected if the proposed plan succeeds in eliminating the estate tax.
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A Mile Marker from the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests Joins a DC Museum
The 11.5-foot-tall marker, which commemorates the distances protesters traveled, went on view at the National Museum of the American Indian last week.
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Ways to Talk About Latin American and Latino Art
This year, the Getty initiative known as Pacific Standard Time has focused on the very broad categories of Latino and Latin American art. How we talk about these categories matters.
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Photographing Museum Visitors Behaving Badly
Photographer Stefan Drashan has captured many instances of visitors violating the most basic tenet of museum etiquette: do not touch the art.
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A Quiet, Painful Meditation on Human Illness Through VR
In this surprising use of VR, the camera never leaves the bedroom, as we watch an artist’s mother wake up, check her online dating app, and take medication from a carrier bag full of pills.
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Seeing Our Digital Lives More Clearly Through Painting
Downey’s paintings function in the pre-internet and are not seduced by the internet’s promises; instead he shows us part of what we have lost.
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Winding Paths and Swooping Walls Create an Oasis in London
Spaces for rest, reflection, and community at London's Serpentine Pavilion.
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A Lending Library for Handmade Protest Banners
Artist Aram Han Sifuentes has created a roving archive of fabric protest signs, which anyone can check out at no charge.
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In Honor of Laura Aguilar, Artists Consider the Role of Queer Art
Five artists talk about the ways in which gender, sexual identity, and culture play out in their work.
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At TEFAF New York, Conspicuous Luxury Meets Exciting Art History
The experiential value of encountering old master paintings amid the trappings of luxury.