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Performing Slanderous and Sweet Words Said About Women
On Wednesday evening at the FLAG Art Foundation, men and women — though mostly women — gathered to read from a list of 1,000 words and phrases characterizing women.
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An Artist Navigates the Capitalist Code of Global Shipping
Art history is full of seascapes depicting the ocean as either a thoroughly charted territory over which nations fight and do trade, or an unknowable force that is forever beyond human control.
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The Catastrophic Inbreeding of the Habsburgs as Digital Degradation
When digitally editing an image, quests for improvement can cause more damage than good, whether saving a JPG so much that it distorts through compression or sharpening the photo until it pixelates.
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The Webcam of an 18th-Century Philosopher's Skeleton
LONDON — Presiding over a busy University College London corridor is a man who's been dead for over 180 years.
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Mechanized Art that Makes a Mop Talk and a Medicine Cabinet Tell Time
Even a plank of wood has kinetic possibilities in the art of Tim Hawkinson.
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A Bowling Alley Transforms into a 20,000-Square-Foot Trippy Art Experience
SANTA FE — Inside an old bowling alley here, in an industrial district a few miles south of the well-trodden, gallery-lined Canyon Road, there is a house.
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A Multisensory Trip to Cuba's Dark, Sugar-Filled Past
SALEM, Mass. — When Europeans first tasted sugar during the Crusades, they immediately begged for more.
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A Video Game Inspired by Philip K. Dick's Sci-Fi Worlds
The developers of Californium call their game a "love letter to Philip K. Dick."
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A Pioneering Net Artist Mourns the Unfulfilled Promise of the Internet
For the past decade, along with fellow former members of the late hacker-net artist collective FAT Lab, American artist Evan Roth has been “dedicated to enriching the public domain one mutha-fuckin LOL at a time.”
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Five Years After His Arrest, a Chinese Artist Continues to Tell the Truth
On March 24, 2011, about a week before renowned artist Ai Weiwei was arrested at the Beijing International Airport, another Chinese artist by the name of Guo Gai was arrested, along with a handful of people, by the Chinese government at the Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art.
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A Photographer Documents the Shifting Landscapes of Armenia
Since the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, the small, landlocked country of Armenia has been in a constant state of sociopolitical flux.
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As Met Breuer Opens, Two of the Architect's Buildings Face an Uncertain Fate
Prominence of name has never guaranteed the preservation of architecture. Frank Lloyd Wright's Park Avenue Showroom was demolished in 2013 just blocks from his iconic Guggenheim Museum, Louis Kahn's Philadelphia commercial storefront was torn down in 2014, just a couple of years after the grand unve