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A Classic Bronx Street Art Maze Is Reborn
Jane Dickson’s City Maze (1980) was one of Fashion Moda’s most celebrated exhibitions.
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A Giant Prayer Wheel in the Heart of Times Square
A giant, beautifully hand-carved, wooden prayer wheel has appeared in the heart of Times Square, courtesy of Brooklyn-based artist duo FAILE.
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Hundreds of Geocities Images Organized Neatly
In April of 2009, Yahoo! Geocities stopped offering free web-hosting services in the United States, rendering its at least 38 million personal, custom-designed pages frozen in time, accessible albeit unmodifiable.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, the Architecture and Design Museum reopens in its new home, a cross-country art tour is captured on film, two teams of artists take turns tearing apart and reconstructing a vacant retail space, and more.
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Virtually Visiting the Harlem Renaissance
When Harlem's Renaissance Ballroom was demolished this year, the 1920s Jazz Age past of the neighborhood became a little harder to see.
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From Punk to American Folk: Two Takes on Music and Politics
At the center of Folk City is a clue that the exhibit is more about space than about music.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, an art-filled block party, dance outdoors, a 24-hour museum party, and your last chance to see Basquiat's notebooks.
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The World's Largest Wildlife Sound Archive and the Urgency of Preserving Noise
Digital archives are essential for sharing information and encouraging its preservation, especially for sound.
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On a Block in Chicago, a Participatory Project Visualizes Jail Data
CHICAGO — It was a broiling Midwestern day, the kind Chicago is famous for.
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Mark Bradford Maps the Suffering of Bodies
LOS ANGELES — Visitors to Scorched Earth, Mark Bradford’s exhibition at the Hammer Museum, are greeted in the lobby by a map that shows the US population infected with AIDS by state.
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Artists of the Dark: “Night Visions: Nocturnes in American Art, 1860–1960”
Nighttime darkness compresses space and alters colors, making ordinary places both more terrifying and more freeing, changing the social dynamic of those who walk in them.
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Failing Better: Erroneous Art at Lisa Cooley
There’s a bit of curatorial sleight-of-hand in I Dropped the Lemon Tart, the summer show at Lisa Cooley on the Lower East Side. The title refers to a real-life mishap in a restaurant kitchen where imminent culinary fiasco turned into a triumph of pluck and invention.