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Photographs Made with the Ocean Capture Its Swirling Rhythms
Despite these works’ affinity with painting, Meghann Riepenhoff shares her method with some of the earliest technical photographs ever made.
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The Digital Decline of David Hockney
The epic heights he reached in the 1960s are apparently so magnificent that they have given him a free pass ever since.
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A Buenos Aires Museum Creates a New Lexicon for Latin American Art
The Latin American Art Museum of Buenos Aires has reorganized its permanent collection, assigning a new context for 20th-century Latin American art and its movements.
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Documenting Signs of Life Around an Israeli Detention Facility
An exhibition at the Israel Museum brings together the photographs and videos that Ron Amir made over three years in the desert surrounding the Holot Detention Facility.
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Langston Hughes’s Collection of Rent Party Cards from Harlem
Yale University's Beinecke Library is displaying Langston Hughes's collection of rent party cards, which advertised fundraising gatherings in an era of discriminatory Harlem rent.
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A Conversation on How Images Help Us Understand Climate Change
On April 4 at the International Center of Photography, a curator, an artist/activist, and a scientist will consider how images can help us understand the urgent reality of global warming.
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85 Rare and Vibrant Coptic Textiles Find a Home at Queens College
The Godwin-Ternbach Museum at Queens College acquired 85 Coptic textiles from the 3rd to 7th century Egypt, a rare gift that will be a teaching resource for its students.
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Celebrate 150 Years of Brooklyn's Prospect Park with 19th-Century Stereograms
Contrast the 19th century to the present day through stereoscopic photographs of Brooklyn's Prospect Park, which opened in 1867 and is celebrating its 150th birthday.
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Egyptian Blue: The First Synthetic Pigment
The first human-made blue pigment emerged in ancient Egypt, then disappeared for centuries until it was rediscovered in Pompeii.
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Required Reading
This week, a Whitney Biennial curator speaks, 8 trends from Milan design week, Clinton designer believes bad design helped Trump, Frida Kahlo's missing adultery painting, Russia's April Fools Day joke, and more.
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Weekend Words: Coal
"I am walking over hot coals suspended over a deep pit at the bottom of which are a large number of vipers baring their fangs."
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Anoka Faruqee’s Dance of Matter and Light
For an artist known for her flawless alignments (or deliberate misalignments) of overlapping wave patterns to achieve a memorable optical effect, the inclusion of “bruises” seems a bold and unexpected move.