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Dear Adam D. Weinberg, Donna De Salvo, and Scott Rothkopf
Why doesn’t the Whitney Museum of American Art inaugurate a series of exhibitions in honor of Herman Melville? It would certainly be fitting given the museum’s recent change of address.
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Deluxe Redux: 'Asia in Amsterdam' at the Peabody Essex
SALEM, Mass. — The Dutch East India Company wrested control of the Asian spice trade from the Spanish and Portuguese, went on to own virtually all of Indonesia, and monopolized trade with Japan for 200 years.
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Cuban Book Art: Ediciones Vigía and the Beauty of the Everyday
From the beginning the idea has been to create beauty from that which is readily available in a world of hardship and extreme scarcity.
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What Isn't There: Audra Wolowiec’s Sounds, Scents, and Erasures
If the exquisitely mercurial art of Audra Wolowiec can be reduced to a single factor, it would be breath.
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An Expansive Exhibition Stars Hollywood and Contemporary Art
As Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact, the Museum of the Moving Image's auspicious foray into exhibiting contemporary art, wryly suggests, it might be film and its iconic images that help stave off decay.
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Despite Developer’s Plans, a Manhattan Clock Tower Will Stay Mechanical
Tribeca is one of the few neighborhoods where you can tell time by a 19th-century clock tower, as the mechanical timepiece at the top of 346 Broadway has been hand-wound every week since its restoration in the 1980s.
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The Homes, Parks, and Towns that Shaped the United States' Built Environment
The built environment of the United State was constructed on grand ideas, including parks that inspired morality, towns designed to curb strikes, and homes that offered everyone their own slice of the land.
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A Century of Wild and Utopian Experiments with Self-Sustaining Worlds
Can a house sustain itself by eating its own tail?
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The Penetrating Portraits of an Overlooked Photographer
TORONTO — Wendy Snyder MacNeil is as much a documentarian as she is an artist.
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Pigeons Recruited to Measure the Invisible Toxicity of London's Air
Pigeons outfitted with lightweight backpacks soared over London from March 14 to 16, collecting air quality data across the city that was shared via Twitter.
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The Inca Rope Bridge That's Woven Across a River Each Year
WASHINGTON, DC — Each June in Huinchiri, Peru, four Quechua communities on two sides of a gorge join together to build a bridge out of grass, creating a form of ancient infrastructure that dates back at least five centuries to the Inca Empire.
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Fighting the Banality of Moderates: An Artist’s Vision for a Peaceful Turkey
When violence is celebrated, evil consumes good and insurgency turns into a kind of distortion of civilization. We have to find a way to break this vicious cycle.