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Victorian Scrapbooks of Flowers from the Holy Land
In the 19th century, tourists who traveled through the Holy Land may have picked up scrapbooks of pressed flowers as souvenirs.
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Gleaming Digital Photos Make Vintage Computers New
Before computers were domesticated into sleek little iPhones, they were unwieldy beasts of machines that weighed up to two-and-a-half tons.
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The Chilling, Anxious World of Mona Hatoum
LONDON — Tate Modern’s retrospective of Mona Hatoum spans the artist’s 35-year career, and she has made a lot of art.
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A Velvet Underground Extravaganza Where Images Drown Out the Music
PARIS — Arty, esoteric, noise music may not be for everyone, but the Velvet Underground arose from just such obscure subgenre territory.
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What Abstraction Can Teach Us About Race and the Color Black
Blackness in Abstraction is one of the best opportunities in years to face the riddle of the color black and the phenomenon of blackening.
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A Celebration of Women Who Made It to the Top of the Art World
LOS ANGELES — The current show at Sprüth Magers gallery, Eau de Cologne, has a title that might seem like a play on words (that’s what I initially thought), but it is actually quite straightforwardly unironic.
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Reviving a Rusted Relic of the World’s Fair in Queens
The New York State Pavilion in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park is currently vacant, a lock on its gate allowing only a glimpse of the decayed interior of Philip Johnson's futuristic "Tent of Tomorrow," designed for the 1964 World's Fair.
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How Trump Trades on Nostalgia for a Mythic White America
Racist sentiments often coexist with a mythologized past of a pure America inhabited only by white Christian people.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, writer and filmmaker Chris Kraus shares some of her influences, 85 artists pay homage to the album cover, a multimedia presentation on the history of naturalism takes place in a converted movie theater, and more.
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The Sculptural, Musical Paintings of Mary Heilmann
LONDON — When I first walked into the Whitechapel Gallery, I thought I was looking at a Barnett Newman zip painting on the far wall.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, visit a resurrection of the beloved Troll Museum, see contemporary dance on the beach, or learn about the tradition of double dutch. And don't forget to join us tomorrow night at Housing Works for our second time bringing Hyperallergic off the screen and onto the stage.
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Build the Most Disruptive Startup Ever in a Dystopian Business Simulator
In "The Founder," a "dystopian startup simulator," you must disrupt markets, innovate nonstop, maybe even go beyond the Earth in wildly expensive rockets.