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An Animated Movie Reimagines Nosferatu in Present-Day NYC
Premiering this week, Andrea Mastrovito's NYsferatu is an adaptation of 1922 silent film as a parable about the immigrant experience made using rotoscope animation.
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Video Art and Animation in the Shadow of the Solar Eclipse
Organized by artist Rick Silva, Eclipsecore, an evening of video art and animation made in response to the total solar eclipse, will debut in LA on August 17.
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After Charlottesville, an Anti-Fascist US Military Film from 1947 Goes Viral
The 17-minute film, "Don't Be a Sucker," offers some timely advice in light of recent events — though it hasn't aged perfectly by any means.
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The Story Behind Charlottesville's Robert E. Lee Monument
The statue whose planned removal spurred this weekend's violent rallies was unveiled in 1924, when General Lee's three-year-old great-granddaughter pulled a giant Confederate flag off of it.
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Nari Ward Spotlights the Gap Between Poverty and Privilege
Nari Ward's exhibition TILL, LIT at Lehmann Maupin gallery alludes to and signifies those key systems of social organization that we can't seem to escape: race and class.
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Entangled Objects Through the Ages, from Sorcerers’ Amulets to Voodoo Dolls
The latest show at La Maison Rouge is a collection of hexing creations that are difficult to disentangle and fully interpret.
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Required Reading
This week, the Calibri typeface's controversies, finding lost languages, the missing Native American bodies of the Effigy Mounds National Monument, Malcolm Gladwell hates McDonald's fries, and more.
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Weekend Words: Dawn
"No eternal reward will forgive us now for wasting the dawn."
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The Dark Puppeteer
Vlad the Influencer has accomplished what decades of Soviet saber-rattling never could.
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Slippery Geometry and Beguiling Color
An exhibition of works by Gabriele Evertz and Sanford Wurmfeld demonstrates that color theory and painting can arrive at very different conclusions.
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Squeeze in Some Last-Minute Summer Adventure with These Cultural Landscape Guides
The Cultural Landscape Foundation wants to connect people to the places of culture around them.
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The Rubin Museum Becomes a Soothing Soundscape
Slip into The World Is Sound, close your eyes, and leave the jangled world outside for awhile.