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Breaking Down Nightlife Aesthetics at the Museum of Arts and Design

An event on June 15 will explore how nightclubs have historically been home to "nonconformist communities" through the lens of design.

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How the 1960s and ’70s Counterculture Queered Fashion

Counter-Couture at the Museum of Arts and Design offers a new way to think about the legacy of the counterculture movement.

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A 10-Year Project to Crochet Our Dying Coral Reefs

The Museum of Arts and Design marks 10 years of Margaret and Christine Wertheim's "Crochet Coral Reef" project, a vibrant response to the destruction of our ocean life.

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A Hands-On Experience with Harry Bertoia's Sonic Sculptures

After his death in 1978, Harry Bertoia was interred beneath one of his most impressive sonic works: a 2,000-pound, 10-foot-in-diameter silicon bronze gong.

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Lost and Invisible Bodies, Enshrined in Glitter and Bling

I am struggling to photograph a tapestry.

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The Great Divide: A Survey of Women in Art and Craft

Pathmakers: Women in Art, Craft and Design, Midcentury and Today is a brave exhibition currently on view at the Museum of Arts and Design.

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Mannequin Designer Ralph Pucci's Playful Humanoids

Ralph Pucci, a high-end mannequin and furniture designer, has collaborated with a wide range of artists throughout his career, producing unorthodox renditions of mannequins since the 1970s.

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Making Sense of a Biennial of "Makers"

NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial is the closest thing you’ll find to a crowd-sourced exhibition on view in New York right now — perhaps anywhere.

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Worst.Press.Release.Ever: Luxury

Although we have yet to undertake a formal taxonomy of bad press releases, here at Hyperallergic we have discerned different kinds.

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From a Williamsburg Storefront to a Midtown Museum: Spectacle Theater at MAD

Spectacle excels at making the most of whatever its members put their eclectic, seemingly tireless minds to. Seven days a week the volunteer-made, volunteer-run, 30-seat screening space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, hustles out a menagerie of films — rare, radical, forgotten, misbegotten, offbeat, and

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Report Finds NYC's Art World 200% Whiter Than Its Population [UPDATED]

With the Whitney Biennial, the withdrawal of the Yams Collective, and questions of race fresh in our minds, the Museum of Arts and Design opens its new biennial, NYC Makers, tomorrow. Included is a project that offers another stark reminder of the imbalanced demographics of the art world: Census Rep

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Breeding the Perfect Chair

Good or bad, every experiment starts with a hypothesis. For Dutch-born designer Jan Habraken with New York-based design studio FormNation, it was the question: "What if we apply the science of genetic engineering to an inanimate object?"