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What the Lascaux Caves Facsimiles Fail to Capture
PARIS — For many, the Lascaux caves are the honey pot for what became artistic in the Western tradition.
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Sum of the Arts
Percentage of 1,300 art galleries surveyed last year whose annual revenue was under $200,000 = 55
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Wind-Powered Sculptures Designed to Outlive Us All
For over two decades, Dutch artist Theo Jansen has been designing kinetic sculptures of large, skeletal creatures that shuffle across beaches, powered solely by the wind.
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An Italian Muralist Recreates Audubon's Journey, One Bird at a Time
An Italian street artist is retracing the journey of John James Audubon that led to his historic 19th-century tome, Birds of America.
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35 Years After Fashion Moda, a Bronx Gallery Revisits the Landmark Space
1978. Weary of the SoHo art scene, artist Stefan Eins decided to open a new art space in the South Bronx. The space was named Fashion Moda (1978-1993) an abbreviation of the full name painted above its entrance: Fashion 时装 Moda МОДА.
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Plastic Purses and Comic-Book Catalogues: American Postwar Art at the Margins
Life-size knit body suits mingle with painted metal lawn chairs, plastic purses, and rows of zines and ephemera in the summer show at Matthew Marks Gallery, What Nerve!, which gathers the work of four outlying postwar art groups in the United States.
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What China Doesn't Want You to See: The Beijing Film Festival Comes to New York
The Beijing Independent Film Festival, organized and supported by the Li Xianting Film Fund, has been chugging along in fits and starts since its humble beginnings in 2004.
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Empire State Building Turns into a Screen for Endangered Species
Last Saturday, anyone in New York City who could see the south facade of the Empire State Building probably noticed massive projections of endangered animals covering the 1931 skyscraper.
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Picturing the Words of Migrants Detained in the US
CultureStrike has launched Visions from the Inside, a project that invites 15 artists around the country to each engage with and illustrate one letter by a detained migrant at Karnes County Residential Center in Texas.
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The 19th-Century Slave Sculpture that Exposed Americans to Nudity in Art
The first nude sculpture of a woman widely seen by the American public depicted a slave, just decades before the Civil War.
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Hank Willis Thomas Seeks the Truth
"The truth is I love you," reads the sign as you enter Brooklyn's MetroTech Commons — not a bad way to pique the interest of passersby, appealing to their vanities and insecurities.
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The Twisted Delights of Abject Art
During the summer, as Labor Day approaches and people flee the city for vacation, Ferris wheels and circus tents can be seen in the distance announcing the arrival of fairs across the counties.