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Excavating the Forgotten History of Palmyra
Palmyra is routinely presented as a city of ruins that had been left to decay naturally for 1700 years, until ISIS came. In fact, the ancient site was continuously inhabited until the early 1930s.
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In a Game Based on the Failing US School System, Leave No Pineapple Behind
No Pineapple Left Behind, from Subaltern Games, turns the controversial 2001 No Child Left Behind Act, which connected federal funding in American public schools to standardized test scores, into a bleak management game.
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Could a Survey of American Indian Art Tell the Human Stories Behind Beautiful Objects?
TOLEDO — Indigenous Beauty: Masterworks of American Indian Art from the Diker Collection presents a conundrum of conscience.
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Talismanic Calligraphy Made Contemporary in Marrakech
Unlike many of Koraïchi’s contemporaries, who seek to abstract calligraphic forms, he not only nods at tradition, but, as an artist of Sufi lineage himself, he inscribes his work within it.
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An Interactive Map of a Midcentury Botanist’s Amazonian Trips
Richard Evans Schultes took peyote with the Kiowa in Oklahoma in the 1930s, was the first scientist invited to a hallucinogenic yagé ceremony in the Amazon's Sibundoy Valley in the 1940s, and inadvertently helped launch the psychedelic era of the 1960s.
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An Art Collective Takes Over a Portuguese Palace and Retells Its History
LISBON — Since 2008, the Lisbon-based art and architecture collective Os Espacialistas has been developing site-specific interventions that introduce new perspectives to public spaces and reconsider the politics they embody.
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What Imperfect Sketches of Bicycles Tell Us About Our Memories
Seven years ago, Bologna-based designer Gianluca Gimini started approaching friends and strangers with an odd request.
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The Tragedies and Triumphs of American Athletes of Color
At Fort Gansevoort Gallery, there is a new art exhibition with titular claim to the annual Division 1 men’s college basketball tournament.
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Locating William Kentridge's Massive Mural in the Roman Landscape
ROME — What exactly does public art mean in a town rebuilt uninterruptedly for over 2,000 years?
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Bringing Murals to the Streets of One of LA’s Poorest Neighborhoods
LOS ANGELES — At the intersection of 48th Street and Wall Street in South Central Los Angeles, a homeless man pushes a cart filled with blankets and clothes.
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3D-Printed Shoes and Dresses that Move on Their Own
BOSTON — Texture, structure, and motion are the center of #techstyle, which opened last month at the Museum of Fine Arts here.
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William Wegman: More Than Weimaraners In Wigs
Among a particular generation of Sesame Street and Saturday Night Live viewers, artist William Wegman is known almost exclusively for his goofy photos and videos of his pet Weimaraners dressed up in human clothing.