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A New Video Starkly Illustrates the Impact of Climate Change
Finnish researcher Antti Lipponen’s recently released video presents a century's worth of data on global temperatures in just 30 seconds.
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Videos that Question the Politics of Different Bodies
At the Met Breuer, four works by David Hammons, Arthur Jafa, Steve McQueen, and Mika Rottenberg overlap with and inform one another.
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When Magic and Art Find Common Ground
The exhibition The Transported Man finds the common ground shared between art and magic — work dedicated to the practice of presentation, showmanship, and illusion being taken for transfiguration or wizardry.
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Chess as a Comic Book Trope
The World Chess Hall of Fame in St. Louis features over 200 comic books that use the strategies, conflicts, and battles of chess as a narrative theme.
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Fin-de-Siècle Austrian Pottery Paired with Prints by Klimt
The artists at Amphora, an Austrian pottery workshop founded in 1892, echoed the highly ornamental paintings of their contemporaries.
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A Utopian Suburb Where Residents Underwrite an Art Residency
Serenbe, a bedroom community of Atlanta with fewer than 500 residents, boasts an ambitious and unconventional artist-in-residence program.
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Listening to Anonymous Confessions in an Art Gallery
In a project by Gideon Jacobs and Gregor Hochmuth, visitors to Deli Gallery can pick up a phone and hear the confessions of strangers.
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50 Years of Celebrating, and Saving, Artist-Built Environments
The John Michael Kohler Arts Center is hosting a yearlong series of exhibitions marking their 50th year celebrating, and saving, art environments.
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Ettore Sottsass's Candy-Colored Utopian Design
The Met Breuer's exhibition makes the case that it wasn’t just an aesthetic Sottsass unleashed on the world, but a particular way of interpreting the past and imagining the future.
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English Translations of Obscure Medieval Texts Go Online
Stanford University's Global Medieval Sourcebook is a new online compendium of English translations for overlooked Middle Ages texts.
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The Futile Effort of Differentiating Fine Art from Design
The Useful and the Decorative at the Landing explores the relationship between fine art and design, and how the lines blur between them.
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Documenting the Disappearance of America's Most Toxic Ghost Town
Starting in 2008, following a devastating tornado, Todd Stewart has photographed the toxic ruins of Picher, Oklahoma, a mining community turned ghost town.