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Gaming the Pop Culture Fantasy of the Vietnam War
Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca.
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After Years of Battling Gentrification, an Artist Opens a Sculpture Park in Detroit
DETROIT — It was a letter-perfect evening in Detroit for the opening last week of Robert Sestok’s long-anticipated sculpture park, City Sculpture.
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Cat Art from the Met Museum Makes the Purrfect Browser Plug-in
Meow Met, a new, feline-filled Chrome extension actually turns the act of opening a tab into an enjoyable learning experience.
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The Vanishing, Painted Bus Stops of Belarus
We tend to think of bus stops as utilitarian pieces of public infrastructure, but in the eastern European country of Belarus, they're works of art.
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Publicly Shaming the US’s Top Surveillance Officials with Street Art
New York-based artist Paolo Cirio is chastening key NSA, CIA, and FBI officials involved in the agencies' surveillance programs by finding and disseminating across the world snapshots of them in informal or intimate contexts.
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The Freaks and Fascinations of 18th-Century Entertainment
Last week, the Bodleian Libraries at the University of Oxford launched an online portal to over 115,000 open-license images from their collections.
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Self-Taught Artist James Castle's Home Will Become a Cultural Center
This week Boise, Idaho, took ownership of the late self-taught artist James Castle's longtime home, which will be restored into a cultural facility commemorating his life and offering residency and exhibition space to local and national artists.
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The Gore and Agony of New Baroque Sculptures at the Met
Baroque Spanish sculpture was long considered gaudy and secondary to the paintings of the same era but that is changing.
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An Art Exhibition Featuring Michael Brown's Body Has Many People Angry
Almost one year after the shooting of Michael Brown by former police officer Darren Wilson in Ferguson, Missouri, the scene of Brown's death has re-appeared in the form of an artwork in a Chicago gallery.
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Elastic and Rigid Objects That Bend Our Point of View
HAMTRAMCK, Mich. — The power of expectation is never so evident as it is in the moment it's thwarted.
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ArtRx LA
LOS ANGELES — This week, a show dedicated to a legendary LA radio DJ opens, a three-day multi-media performance returns to the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the media arts space Coaxial hosts a GIF arts festival, and much more.
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The Story of France’s Mini Bastilles, Made from the Infamous Prison’s Rubble
Today is France's national holiday, known abroad as Bastille Day, and perhaps you have wondered: what became of all that stone after the goliath Bastille prison was stormed on July 14, 1789?