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Measuring Life by the Stars in Greco-Roman Antiquity
The Institute for the Study of the Ancient World explores widespread modes of timekeeping in the Greco-Roman world and their continued influence today.
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Stepping into an Uncanny Reconstruction of a Detroit Apartment
The real apartment could not have provided a sharper contrast to the silent, windowless, blacked-over surfaces of the dark-side doppelgänger Anders Ruhwald has created in Cleveland.
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Artists' Fascination with the Soft, Tingling Sensations of ASMR
As ASMR videos have sped across the internet, artists have started making their own versions, inducing shivers with soft sounds like clacking, cracking, scratching, and whispering.
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The Appeal and Drawbacks of a Show of Video Art from Africa
An exhibition at the Wellin Museum in upstate New York brings together nine video and moving image works by seven artists born or living in Africa.
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Chimney Rags Revealed to Be a Rare 17th-Century Map
The National Library of Scotland received a bundle found in a chimney, and six months of conservation revealed the rags to be a rare 17th-century map.
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The Soft Power of Art
As Western Civilization, as we have known it, seems to be unraveling, what are artists to do?
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Tiny Tomes from the World's First All-Miniature Bookstore
Tokyo's Lilliput Oval Saloon closed last year and now part its inventory of miniature books, bookshelves, and lecterns is headed to auction.
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In a Show of African Portrait Photography, the Figure Fades Away
The exhibition looks beyond the horizon of defining an African identity, beyond the notion of authentically representing what this identity is supposed to be, as both local and foreign photographers have sought to do.
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Lorraine O'Grady Stars in a New Music Video by Anohni
"Marrow" consists simply of O'Grady lip-synching to Anohni's three-minute song of the same title against a black background.
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A Tech Collective Sets Up a Sleek Boutique — to Help Visitors Elude Big Data
From the street, The Glass Room may look like another boutique, but inside is an exhibit that makes visible the implications of corporate and government data collection.
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Hybrid Objects for a Binary World
In ektor garcia's exhibition in Mexico City, sculptural assemblages that evoke altars, everyday tools, and sex toys blur conventional distinctions between types of artifacts.
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ArtRx LA
This week, watch a play about Surrealist fistfights, hear a late masterwork from avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, attend a political sign-making workshop, and more.