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The Only Known Film Footage of Marcel Proust, or Proust Descending a Staircase
In the first footage discovered showing Marcel Proust, he speedily descends a staircase at a wedding.
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How the Met's Sale of a Max Beckmann Painting Changed US Museums
Beckmann's "Self-Portrait with Cigarette" belonged to the Metropolitan Museum until 1971, when its deaccession set off a series of disputes that reshaped museum practices.
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An Artist Draws Out America's Buried and Fenced-off Toxic Sites
The artist Joan Linder makes exhaustive, panoramic drawings of toxic and radioactive sites in the United States, gathering a record of government indifference as she goes.
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50 Years of Indigenous Fashion at the National Museum of the American Indian
Native Fashion Now brings together works by 67 designers and artists from the US and Canada who are melding generations-old practices and contemporary couture.
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Meditative Light Art with Dark Undertones
At the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia, Tatsuo Miyajima uses light to reflect on the transcendent, spiritual, and experiential aspects of time.
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Thousands of 1960s Architecture Slides Go on View at LAXART
In the late 1960s the West Coast media collective Environmental Communications shot hundreds of thousands of slides of the everyday and alternative architectures around them.
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Responding to Human Remains with Crocheted Skeletons and Beaded Organs
Sabrina Small and Caitlin McCormack explore the life and decay of the human body in sculptural fiber art at the Mütter Museum in Philadelphia.
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A New Cultural Plan for NYC Runs into Objections from Artists
The Department of Cultural Affairs is devising a plan for June 2017 that would manage and organize New York City's resources for arts and culture.
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Why Victorian Men Had Glorious Beards
The Age of the Beard at the Florence Nightingale Museum in London examines through photographs the Victorian mania for elaborate facial hair.
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Learn to Spot Unknown Archaeological Sites from Space
GlobalXplorer relies on crowdsourcing and high-resolution satellite imagery to protect and identify archaeological sites around the world that are currently unknown.
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North America's Biggest Art History Conference Touches Down in New York
A weekend of panels and talks is the focus of the annual College Art Association conference.
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Despite Censorship Row, a Show Connecting Immigrant Rights and Police Brutality Goes On
The censorship of a work now slated to be reinstated threatened to undo a powerful exhibition of social justice art by artists from the southwestern US.