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Inventive Twitter Projects Monitor Air Quality, Calm Chemo Patients, and More
At last month's London Design Festival, six projects considered how Twitter might enable interactions beyond verbal communication.
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An Artist Couple Explores the Sexy and Not-So-Sexy Realities of Intimacy
DETROIT — Intimacy is often falsely billed as romantic.
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A Performance Artist Draws with His Teeth
Tomorrow at noon, visual and performing artist Tony Orrico will sit down at an eight-by-eight-foot sheet of paper and begin to chew.
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The Radical Ambiguity of Henry Darger
PARIS — I first encountered Henry Darger’s doggedly private, colored drawings depicting his opulent fantasy world at the 1997 The Unreality Of Being show at the Museum of American Folk Art.
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Sum of the Arts
Number of positions of movement in Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2" (1912) = 20
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Eyewear for Chickens and a Time Capsule Full of Twinkies: Highlights from #AskAnArchivist Day
Today, archivists across the US took to Twitter to answer questions from the public.
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A Photographer Instagrams the Poorest Places in the US
This past summer photographer Matt Black covered 18,000 miles of the poorest places in the United States.
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Join Us to Discuss #KimonoWednesdays and the Decolonialization of Museums #ArtTalk
In light of the recent Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's "Kimono Wednesdays" controversy, we'd like to explore the issues of minority representation in mainstream US museums and who gets to decide how cultural artifacts are represented and presented to the public.
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Drawing a Universe of Cosmic Sexuality
The artist Eric Fischl once called Amy Myers’s abstract drawings “totems to Cosmic Sexuality.”
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Library of Congress Celebrates First Handwritten Bible Commissioned by a Benedictine Monastery in Centuries
While the pomp around Pope Francis's United States tour recedes, the Library of Congress is marking one lasting legacy with a rare bible given in honor of his visit.
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A Camera That Curbs Your Urge to Take Photographs
A new photography tool will force you to actually spend time admiring a picturesque landscape rather than worrying about composing the best shot.
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How Would You Draw the Internet?
What would the internet look like, if you had to draw it?