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Human Anatomy as Portrayed in Woodblocks of 19th-Century Kabuki Actors
The opening of Japan in the 19th century after its isolationist Edo period caused an influx of foreign influence, including Western approaches to medicine.
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ArtRx NYC: Summer Day Trips
August rapidly approached and we could all use an excuse to leave the city.
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How Anamorphic Paintings Represented the Miracles of the Saints
Which saint you see in this 17th-century painting depends on where you stand.
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A Performance Evening of Uninspired Rituals
I first encountered the Silver Spiders in the rain.
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Stroll Through the Color and Light of an American Impressionist's Garden
As artists like Georges Seurat and Claude Monet were capturing the refinement of European gardens in quick brushstrokes, so did American Impressionists like Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase turn to the cultivated landscapes around them for inspiration.
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New York's Venerable Camera Club Reboots for the 21st Century
Founded in 1884, the Camera Club of New York (CCNY) is one of the oldest arts institutions in the city, and in the past couple of years it is enjoying a kind of revival under a new name, Baxter Street at the CCNY.
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A Public Art App Prompts You To Look Up and Away from Your Screen
The typical solution to improve traffic-related accidents is to edit city infrastructure: to put up better street signs, redesign intersections, or stencil the command "LOOK!" along curbsides in white paint, as New York City's Department of Transportation (DOT) has done.
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Digital Colonialism and the Marginalization of Australia's Indigenous Peoples
LONDON — Inside Furtherfield Gallery, one is confronted by the noxious fruits of British colonialism.
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The Art of Fallen Cities
BOSTON, MASS. — Having grown up on the Great Plains, the first ruin of the Romantic variety I remember encountering was the shell of the Rock of Cashel in Ireland.
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Encounter with a Gazillion Teddy Bears
Partners (The Teddy Bear Project) is the centerpiece – one might say the heart of — The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, and Natalie Bell and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum.
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Impure and Arcane
One of the interesting things about Hilma af Klint (1862–1944) is that neither she nor her work can be written into the early history of abstract art.
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A Poet’s Paintings, In and Out of the Void
“I never wanted to be a poet,” says the famously prolific poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti in “More Light,” an autobiographical essay about his first ambitions as a painter.