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The Time Edward Albee Almost Bought My Painting
As a clichéd Gen X art student, I was too arrogant for my own good.
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Join the "League of Lonely Geologists" on a Digital Quest for Strange Rocks
The League of Lonely Geologists is a game of finding rocks, sharing them with strangers, and hurling them into a mysterious space portal.
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The False Advertising of Sophistically Decorated, 19th-Century Pharmaceutical Trade Cards
These skillfully and elaborately designed cards were distributed by merchants to their customers in the late 19th century.
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An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children's Books
Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children's Books, 1917-1953 is an online interactive from Princeton University exploring children's books in the Soviet Union.
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Portrait of 18th-Century Muslim American Proves the US Has Always Been Home to Many Faiths
The Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery is showing an 1822 painting of Yarrow Mamout, a Muslim native of Guinea who was forced into slavery in America.
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Transforming Walking and Talking into Poetry at Madison Square Park
From July 4 to 8, MC Hyland will be in residence among Josiah McElheny's sculptures, exploring the connection between walking and poetry.
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When 5.5 Million Polish Citizens Signed a Birthday Card for the US
Ahead of July 4, the Library of Congress made all 111 volumes of a 1926 birthday card signed by 5.5 million Polish citizens available online.
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A Cowboy from the Future Lifts Weights in an LA Elevator Gallery
New York-based artists Matt Taber and Scott Nadeau bring their futuristic Western "My Name is Everybody" to Elevator Mondays for a one-night performance and monthlong exhibition.
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The Museum of Capitalism Isn’t Buying Our Prevailing Economic Model
Museum of Capitalism, a pop-up exhibition in Oakland presenting itself as a fully functioning museum, attempts to shift our perspective and give viewers a bird’s-eye view of capitalism.
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Weekend Words: Passage
"In certain kinds of writing, particularly in art criticism and literary criticism, it is normal to come across long passages which are almost completely lacking in meaning."
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Required Reading
This week, Kahn's Salk Institute, problems at MASS MoCA, how should we support scholars who receive online harassment, using art to understand "homosexual" relationships in Ancient Greece, and more.
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Richard Brown Lethem's Painted Afflictions
"Throughout his career, he has freely mixed the figurative with the abstract, unwilling to align himself with any school or -ism."