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Playing Piano with the Harmonies of Eclipsing Stars
Astronomers have long considered the harmony of the universe as a sort of music, from Pythagoras and the Musica Universalis, to Kepler and the "music of the spheres."
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A New Museum Is a Beacon for Lighthouse History
Housed in one of the long-abandoned brick buildings of the former United States Lighthouse Service Depot on Staten Island, the National Lighthouse Museum is now officially open.
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Animations That Leave You Psychically Altered
DETROIT — "Bob Ross and Thomas Kinkade are brought back to life to make landscapes in computers for an alien civilization that creates simulations of other planets — and they team up to find out if life on Earth was ever real in the first place."
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Pierre Huyghe and the Art of the Rupture
The tank is a lens through which we can better see Pierre Huyghe’s overall project.
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Bringing Latin American Masters of Kinetic and Light Art Out of Obscurity
HOUSTON — Twentieth-century kinetic and light art has long been the redheaded stepchild of the art world.
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In Defense of Magic
Childhood is the kingdom of magic. In this world, the child invents new secret languages, speaks with people and creatures visible only to her eyes. She is happy.
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A Photographer in Conversation with William Blake
There are at least three exhibitions in Hidden Likeness: Photographer Emmet Gowin at the Morgan currently at the Morgan Library & Museum.
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Saintly Collages of Everyday People
In a five-part exhibition series, El Museo del Barrio in East Harlem is highlighting women artists.
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Seeing the Art for the Trees
CHICAGO — In the entire history of art, how many works depict a tree as their main subject?
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An Artwork Forces Us to Face Mexico’s Disappeared Students
People who have the luxury of not being directly affected by the world’s many injustices often feel fatigued by so much bad news.
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A String Spectacle Designed for Selfies in a DC Warehouse
WASHINGTON, DC — Recent Howard University architecture grads Tolu Rufai and Khai Grubbs are luring people to an abandoned warehouse in Northeast DC with nothing but yarn … and the promise of Instagram likes.
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The History of NYC's First Nine Landmark Parks
On a July morning, at the tender age of five, I watched the building next to my Bronx tenement capitulate to the blows of a wrecking ball.