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Security Footage of Dallas Museum of Art's Crane Crash Oozes Suspense
Newly released security camera footage of a crane collapsing on the Dallas Museum of Art is pure Hitchcock.
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"Hologram" Protesters March Against Troubling New Anti-Terror Law
Thousands took part in a virtual march in the streets of Madrid last Friday night to protest the new Citizens’ Securities Law’s Reform law that will have a chilling effect on public protests.
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Google's Online Museum Adds 3D Animal Skulls and Sculptures
The Google Cultural Institute, known for empowering internauts to Street View their way through museums and look very, very closely at digitized two-dimensional artworks, has ventured into the third dimension.
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Cooper Union Trustees Offer to Sacrifice School President to Appease State Attorney General
The board of trustees of the Cooper Union has offered not to renew the contract of the school's current president, Jamshed Bharucha, if it would help bring an end to New York State Attorney General Eric Schneiderman's investigation into the university's management.
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Social Media You Can Wear as a T-shirt
Using thermochromatic ink, a soft circuit, and Bluetooth, Social Textiles link items of clothing to their wearers’ smartphones and alerts them when other Social Textiles users with similar interests are in close proximity.
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Ponder Your Multiple Personalities, Get More Creative
A recent study suggests that reflecting on the fluidity of identity can enhance creativity.
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A Video Game Lets You Navigate Giorgio de Chirico's Surreal Cityscapes
With their long shadows and lonely colonnades, Giorgio de Chirico’s paintings possess a strange allure. I've always wondered what it would be like to wander through them.
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Sleek New Video Shows ISIS Destroying Ancient City of Hatra
A video uploaded to YouTube on Friday, purportedly by ISIS, shows men using sledgehammers, pickaxes, and rifles to destroy sculptures at the Hatra archaeological site.
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Renegade Edward Snowden Monument Erected (and Quickly Removed) in Brooklyn Park
In the wee hours of Monday morning, three artists and a team of helpers illegally installed a bust of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden in Brooklyn's Fort Greene Park.
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As Pace Expands, New York Galleries Start Dwarfing Museums
On Friday Pace Gallery revealed plans to build an eight-story, 60,000-square-foot building where the largest of its spaces on West 25th Street in Chelsea currently sits.
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Artists from Five Galleries Dominate US Museum Shows
The Art Newspaper published the results of research that found that artists from five of the world's biggest galleries accounted for nearly a third of solo museum shows in the US between 2007 and 2013.
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Run from Ghosts in Real Cemeteries with Google Maps Pac-Man
Today is a glorious one for your idle time, as Google Maps made a function available to turn any street view into a game of Pac-Man.