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From James Baldwin to Susan Sontag, Listen to Recordings from PEN America’s Vast Archive
After finding its literary archives inaccessible, PEN America launched a five-year project to digitize 1,500 hours of audio and video.
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How Coloring Books Can Teach Us About Diversity in Ancient Times
If we consider coloring books as pedagogical tools rather than amusing diversions, we can use the fad as food for thought.
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Live a Year in Virtual Solitude in Walden, the Game
Walden, a Game transforms Henry David Thoreau's famed book into a thoughtful digital experience.
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Sculpture of Abe Lincoln Confusingly Includes Generic White Man Sporting "a Dad Look"
Seward Johnson's latest sculpture in downtown Chicago features a giant Abe Lincoln next to a "common man," or a white guy in a cable-knit sweater and corduroy pants.
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Placing Pieces of Local History in an Empty Marcel Breuer Building
Tom Burr's installations bring together past and present in a famous Brutalist building in New Haven.
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A Museum Floats Down the Chicago River
The Floating Museum's newest installation River Assembly sits on a barge and will be docking at various locations throughout the month, bringing arts programming to audiences along its route.
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Damien Hirst's Shipwreck Fantasy Sinks in Venice
Treasures from the Wreck of the Unbelievable is supposed to be Hirst’s major comeback, a rebuke to his diminished popularity and slumping market value.
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Fruits Reborn as Sculpture
At the Scarab Club, Mary Eddy is showing her sculptures made from intricately cut and dried fruit skins, which have been "liberated" from their biological functions.
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The Continuing Saga of the Architect Made into a Diamond
The power games of Jill Magid's project concerning the archives of Luis Barragán continue in an extensive exhibition that completes the circle without any conclusive resolution.
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A VR Exhibition Pays Tribute to a Long-Gone Vegas Casino
The Sands, opening on August 12, features works by 15 artists on rotating display in a one-to-one virtual replica of the Lower East Side gallery Essex Flowers.
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Films from a Favela Destroyed by the Olympics
On August 10 at Klowden Mann, artist Nancy Popp will screen films about Vila Autódromo, which was demolished to make way for the Rio 2016 Olympics.
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A Critical Response to Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests
On August 10 at the Swiss Institute, Luke Willis Thompson will screen and discuss his film that questions the lack of people of color in Warhol's famous series.