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8 Hours at the Guggenheim's 24-Hour Party
Every party has a life cycle.
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Carnival Rides Spun into Abstraction
You haven’t really seen a ferris wheel until you’ve seen one photographed by Roger Vail.
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Jesus Looks Like a Lady: A Female Baroque Artist’s Mystical Vision
LISBON — Even as she was the subject of the exhibition The Sacred and the Profane in 1997 at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, I had never heard of the Counter-Reformation Baroque (and Bodegón) painter Josefa de Óbidos (1630–1684), before a trip to Lisbon.
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A Not-Quite-Great Documentary About the Greatest Art Forger of Our Time
"I think I can paint anything," says Wolfgang Beltracchi, the infamous German art forger, in Arne Birkenstock's documentary Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery.
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Sum of the Arts
Miles messages can travel in Turkey's old whistling language = 3
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Learn to Fight Capitalism at the School of Disobedience
A forthcoming exhibition in Helsinki will offer visitors an education grounded in disobedience and protest, equipping them with tools and ideas to challenge society's injustices and fight for change.
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Mesmerizing GIFs of Japan's Floating World
Centuries-old Japanese ukiyo-e have received a delightful update, transformed into animated scenes that sometimes include surprising, modern imagery.
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An Artist's Hard-Earned Dream Drawings
HUDSON, N.Y. — One of the worst things an artist can have is too much skill.
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Contemporary Brazilian Artists at Home with Neo-Concretists
“The house was more than a skin ... an organism as alive as our own,” Lygia Clark wrote.
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Ride a Bioluminescent Fish at New York's Newest Carousel
The SeaGlass Carousel is a decade in the making, but after delays, the $16 million project from the Battery Conservancy in partnership with the NYC Department of Parks finally officially opens today.
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A Masterpiece by Which to Remember Type Designer Hermann Zapf
In his lifetime, German type designer Hermann Zapf created around 200 typefaces across the world's languages, from Arabic to Cherokee.
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When Postinternet Art Starts to All Look the Same
Molly Soda is an art darling of a generation that grew up with the internet as a constant companion.