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Two New Data-Mapping Tools Help Us Better Understand the Planet
Two recently launched applications for mapping datasets examine our planet and humanity's impact on it.
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An Inquiry into Identity at ArtPrize
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — The Grand Rapids Art Museum (GRAM) is one of the central hubs for the ArtPrize activities that throw the city into a cultural frenzy each fall.
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Hyperreal Landscapes, Digitally Transformed
Presenting vitas of sweeping landscapes paired with serene color gradients, Mark Dorf's photographs of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado ferry nature into fantasy.
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A Video Installation Immerses You in 1970s Brooklyn
From the window of his apartment at Atlantic and Flatbush avenues, filmmaker Aldo Tambellini captured the slow changes in Brooklyn street life from 1971 to 1972.
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ArtPrize Is Made of People
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich. — All around me, swarms of people with faces caught between eagerness and beleaguerment are gravitating towards a giant paper blow-up of a detail of the American flag.
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An Ancient Indonesian Music Tradition Gets an Electronic Update
The Gamelatron is the world's first completely robotic gamelan orchestra — a kinetic, site-specific structure created by Aaron Taylor Kuffner.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of artworks that will be installed in the new Minnesota Vikings stadium = 500
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The Story of an Installation in a Polluted River and Its Subsequent Removal
DES MOINES, Iowa — On June 27th, the third-worst flood in the history of Des Moines, Iowa’s Raccoon River, necessitated the quick and urgent rescue of “Wading Bridge,” the most recent installation by the New York-based artist, Mary Mattingly.
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Artists Expose the Ecological Impact of Tech Production
SAN FRANCISCO — In Agbogbloshie — also known as one of the world’s top polluted places and an e-waste dumping ground, located in Ghana along the African coast of the Gulf of Guinea — a young man by the name of Mohammed Camara scavenges for metal to earn money.
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The Many Challenges of Dining with Animals
ALBUQUERQUE — Last June, Catherine Harris and her family were at the tail end of a rocky 23-day working vacation in northern Denmark when a bee stung the older of her two children, a daughter who fell to her knees and began shaking her head in pain.
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From Deforestation to Disappeared Populations, Bogota’s ARTBO Fair Reflects South America's History
BOGOTA — The 11th edition of ARTBO in Bogota, Colombia, held from October 1–4 at the Corferias convention center, was a sea of abstract and conceptual art.
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Of Death and Disco Balls: Nightlife Art as Activism
An oversize facsimile of Rush poppers, tipped over, pouring out its viscous contents: this example of underground gay iconography blown up to almost belligerent proportions perfectly represents the aims of Party Out of Bounds: Nightlife as Activism Since 1980.