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The Exhibitors Who Traveled Furthest for the NY Art Book Fair

Over half the exhibitors at this year's Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair are based in the United States, but international exhibitors, as always, have a strong presence, arriving from all corners of the world.

In Brief

MoMA Digitizes Exhibition Archives, Uploading Images and Data for 3,500 Shows

Did you happen to miss last year's blockbuster Picasso show at the Museum of Modern Art? Or perhaps you couldn't attend another momentous exhibition, the museum's 1938 presentation of the Bauhaus, because you didn't even exist yet.

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The Photographer Who Shot Truman Capote’s Brooklyn

Before Truman Capote's society girl Holly Golightly appeared in the November 1958 issue of Esquire, the author was in a heated argument with his editor over visuals.

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Highlighting Kenya’s Religious Pluralism by Painting Places of Worship Yellow

Last summer, a number of houses of worship in Nairobi gleamed yellow, with their walls freshly painted in sunshiny shades. This fall, more religious institutions in the Kenyan capital as well as in Mombasa will shine, standing out vividly against the otherwise normal landscape.

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Artists Consider Race in Response to the American Revolution

The curatorial scheme of the Race and Revolution exhibition at Nolan Park on Governors Island is bold and seditious.

Opinion

Two Writers Artspeak Their Way Through #AskaCurator Day

We've become accustomed to the usual art institution social media feeds that remind us of artist birthdays, collection highlights, upcoming events, and the other static in our art-filled lives. OK, that's harsh, but you know what I mean.

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Reflections from Black Women Artists for Black Lives Matter

"We were a congregation of red-beaded necklace adorners, velveteen ushers, rattlers, and clenched-fist praise dancers."

In Brief

Misunderestimated Painter George W. Bush Is Releasing an Art Book

As part of a continuing effort to paint over his legacy as a war criminal and the worst US president ever, George W. Bush will soon publish an art book.

News

First Faculty Lockout in US College History Bars Art Profs from Classes and Studios [UPDATED]

Since Long Island University locked out the roughly 400 members of the faculty union from its Brooklyn campus on August 31, printmaking professor Hilary Lorenz has not been able to ride her bicycle.

Comics

The Story of Charles Darwin’s Artist

Some of the most iconic illustrations of Darwin's Theory of Evolution are the Galapagos Finches.

Art

An Unlikely East-West Collaboration in 1830s Portraits of Tumor Patients

Guangzhou, then called Canton by Westerners, was the only Chinese port open to foreign trading until the Opium Wars of the 19th century, and it became a rare hub of direct interactions between the two cultures. One of these resulted in a surprisingly moving series of paintings portraying bodies disf

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Artists Crank Up the Transcendent Power of Music

What is a DJ? Maybe you can get to an answer by understanding where the DJ is — that pivot point, that hub around which we as dancers oscillate, in the orbit of the music the DJ arranges and organizes.