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Remembering a Beloved New Museum Security Guard
Elon F. Joseph, a kind, caring and a genuinely good person, passed away.
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A Look at the Suffrage Movement With the UK's First Female Photojournalist
In 2009, a striking collection of some 2,000 black-and-white photographs went up for auction at Sotheby's, but unfortunately it failed to sell.
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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.