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An Arrow-Shooting Goddess from a Time When Clocks Were Entertainment
From the 16th to 19th century, clockmaking in Europe saw increasingly elaborate marriages of interior mechanics and exterior design.
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Negotiating Copyright and Copy-wrong in Architecture
There is no shortage of literature on copying in architecture.
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Have a Creepy Little Christmas with These Unsettling Victorian Cards
Anthropomorphic cats, murderous frogs, and insects dancing by the moonlight aren't exactly part of our Christmas card tradition today.
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Preserving the Little-Known Works of a Groundbreaking Guatemalan Sound Artist
For the past five decades, in a Guatemala City studio, 85-year-old sound artist Joaquín Orellana has been building unusual, sculptural útiles sonoros, or “sound utensils.”
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In Middle America, a Survey of Art from Latin America
DETROIT — The central piece, and the one that immediately draws the eye when entering the main gallery of United States of Latin America at the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, is a full wall mural by Minerva Cuevas entitled “America.”
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An Ancient Indian Painting Tradition Dictated by the Seasons
One of India's most private religious communities, the Pushtimarg also developed one of the country's most unique artistic traditions.
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At a Hanoi Prison Museum, a History Too Painful to Aestheticize
HANOI, Vietnam — The “Hanoi Hilton” is the sarcastic nickname bestowed by US prisoners of war on the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, formerly North Vietnam.
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The Genre That Wasn’t There: A Wide-Ranging Examination of Postwar Ceramics
NEW HAVEN, Conn. — Leave it to a former professional studio potter to organize a wide-ranging exhibition of postwar ceramics that’s relatively free of hangups about form and function.
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The Art of Black Lives Matter Minneapolis
MINNEAPOLIS — A year ago this week, some 2,000 demonstrators converged in the Mall of America rotunda to protest the killings of Michael Brown, Eric Garner, and other unarmed black men at the hands of the police.
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ArtRx LA
This week, there's a Christmas reading by the LA River, a drug- and bomb-sniffing dog demo at Rosamund Felsen, the last chance to see a spectacular show on postwar art movement Cobra at Blum & Poe, and more.
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A Strange Family Drama, Starring Found Object Sculptures
WASHINGTON, DC — The Black Box film series at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden isn’t where you'd expect to find a gaggle of teenage boys.
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A Photographic Portrait of Black Culture Around the Globe
CHICAGO — Deana Lawson’s photographs thwart easy notions of symmetry.