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Two Chelsea Galleries Go Wall Out for Summer
'Tis the season of reduced hours and low-stakes group shows at most Manhattan galleries, but two spaces in Chelsea are bucking the trend with summer exhibitions of large-scale murals.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, strategize about gentrification, probe the lives of famous artists, reimagine Charlie Chaplin in Greenwich Village, discuss the benefits of failure, and more in a very sunny and hot NYC.
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Restoring 16th-Century European Martial Arts Manuals
For researchers or practitioners interested in the history of European martial arts, many of the resources are in private hands, and online images from key texts on fencing or other sword fighting are of middling quality.
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A Brazilian Nanny's Journey North to Find Her Family
It’s never easy leaving home, but for many northern Brazilians who seek work in the country’s wealthier south, doing so can mean never seeing their loved ones again.
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New York's Cathedral of Science Reopens with Interactive Ecology Beneath the Stars
The Great Hall at the New York Hall of Science in Queens was designed to give visitors to the 1964 World's Fair the feeling of floating in deep space.
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A Once Shattered Statue Is Now Part of a Theatrical Experiment at the Metropolitan Museum
How many times is a sculpture sculpted?
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Painting the Nocturnal Journeys of Solitary Travelers
The remote location of the sparse gallery space makes it seem as though the paintings were found interred, long unseen.
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From Climate Change to Race Relations, Artists Respond to Richmond, Virginia
New Dominion, a group show at Mixed Greens, brings together the work of eight artists living and working in Richmond, Virginia.
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Mapping 13 Centuries of English Metaphors
A three-year project from the University of Glasgow's School of Critical Studies mapped 13 centuries of metaphors in the English language.
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In the Bronx, a Pop-up Art Show Is a Lightning Rod for Fear of Gentrification
There weren’t many protesters — just seven — but they were loud.
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Elmer Bischoff’s Haunting Figurative Paintings
The curator and art historian Susan Landauer met Elmer Bischoff in 1985, while she was a graduate student at Yale, and this encounter helped lead to her first book: The San Francisco School of Abstract Expressionism (1996).
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Favorites for Every Taste from the Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair
Whether you’re interested in limited edition screenprints, Xerox zines, or full color photo books, there is something for everyone at Blonde Art Books’s Bushwick Art Book and Zine Fair this weekend.