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Fire Tears Through Iconic Artist Building in Brooklyn
Some tenants say they’ve lost a lifetime of work to the blaze that ravaged a Red Hook building housing dozens of studios and art businesses.
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Arts Community Rallies Behind Brooklyn Artist Displaced by Blaze
Ayana Evans lost nearly everything she owned, including art materials, after a fire tore through her top-floor Brooklyn apartment.
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Fire on Miccosukee Reservation Engulfs Homes and Artifacts
Among the structures destroyed was a building housing the Creativity Center, where community members learned to sew, bead, and make traditional patchwork.
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After Fires Tore Through Their Studios, Artists Find Resilience
LA artist Malado Francine is just beginning to make sense of the loss after a blaze consumed decades of work — and she is far from the only one.
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Painting Disaster From a Distance
Motohide Takami's images locate the exact distance at which you can contemplate tragedy yet remain untouched by its damage.
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Rutgers University Accused of Unconstitutionally Defunding a Student Newspaper
The Daily Targum, Rutgers's 150-year-old student newspaper, is struggling for financial survival after it lost most of its funding in a recent student referendum.
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Fire at Glasgow School of Art Displaces Residents for Months, Guts Mackintosh Building
Local residents cordoned from their homes and businesses for 10 weeks following the devastating blaze.
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A Crowdfunding Effort Launches to Commemorate Khadija Saye, Artist Killed in London Inferno
The campaign, launched by three friends and supporters of Saye's, aims to raise £50,000 to promote the work of other young artists.
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Artist Khadija Saye Dies in Massive Fire in London Apartment Building [UPDATED]
The artist, who lived with her mother on the 20th floor of the 24-story building, was last heard from at 3am this morning.
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The Wind-Powered Kinetic Sculpture Pulsing Behind the Olympic Cauldron
The kinetic sculpture behind the Rio 2016 Olympic cauldron is so hypnotic you might not have noticed the flame itself is rather tiny compared to past games.
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An Excerpt from ‘On Fire,’ Artists’ Tales of Devastating Studio Blazes
“My interest in participating in this book you’re about to make,” Brendan Fowler tells me, “is that I think it will be a document that would have been useful to me before I’d had my fire."
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California Telephone Museum Destroyed by Fire
Last week, the United States lost one of its quirkiest historical museums to a wildfire in northern California.