Art
The Well-Trodden Art of the Manhole Cover in New York City
A manhole cover is generally deemed successful if its round shape keeps pedestrians from plummeting into the earth, and communicates the subterranean systems below through its design.
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The Pulsing Patterns of Traditional North African Jewelry
PARIS — Wearable Treasures: Maghreb Jewelry and Ornaments is a pointed consideration of the psychic powers interlaced throughout North African women’s jewelry.
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The Other Side of History
One of the fascinating things about The Keeper, organized by Massimiliano Gioni, with Margot Norton, Natalie Bell, and Helga Christoffersen for the New Museum, is the sheer number of distinct collections they managed to include in a space that is not particularly hospitable to art.
Interview
Beer with a Painter: Enrique Chagoya
I visited Enrique Chagoya in his Stanford University studio when classes were out for the summer. The bucolic fields outside the building were quiet, other than the rustling of tree branches, and a group of swallows and a hummingbird flying near the roof.
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Roger Ricco, Artist, Has Something to Show You
Roger Ricco is an artist. He is also a steel-foundry worker’s son, a former rock-band promoter, and a co-founder and co-director, with Frank Maresca, of Ricco/Maresca, a well-known New York venue specializing in contemporary art by both schooled and self-taught artists
News
Work by Irving Penn and Other Teachers of the Famous Photographers School Emerges
In the 1950s and '60s, tens of thousands of students across the US were receiving an arts education by mail, through correspondence courses designed and distributed by the Famous Artists School on painting, illustration, and cartooning.
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A Dancer Carves a Queer Space in Classic Khmer Performance
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Prumsodun Ok deeply loves classical Khmer dance.
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MFA Boston Publicly Conserves 18th-Century Buddhist Painting Masterpiece
Starting tomorrow, visitors to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, will have a rare opportunity to experience what usually occurs behind the scenes in conservation labs.
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Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison’s Collaborative Visions of Harlem
CHICAGO — Gordon Parks and Ralph Ellison, two of the 20th century's most celebrated artists, shared a vision of what it meant to be black in the US.
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Victorian Scrapbooks of Flowers from the Holy Land
In the 19th century, tourists who traveled through the Holy Land may have picked up scrapbooks of pressed flowers as souvenirs.
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Street Artists Erect Nude Sculpture of Donald Trump in New York’s Union Square [UPDATED]
Today, Donald Trump stood nude in the center of Union Square.
Announcement
Qalandiya International Returns with Over 100 Artists Exploring Questions of Refuge
Qalandiya International is pleased to announce, This Sea is Mine the third edition of its monthlong collaborative artistic program which will take place across cities and villages in Palestine and the Diaspora, to explore questions of return and refuge.[http://engine.nectarads.com/p/eyJhdiI6MTQ0NDM0