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A 19th-Century Archaeologist's Collection of Images of Rome Goes Online
Nearly 4,000 records from Rodolfo Lanciani's personal archive are searchable through a new online database.
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Scientists Encode Living DNA with Muybridge’s Galloping Horse Film
Harvard scientists successfully recorded five frames of Eadweard Muybridge's 1887 galloping horse on living bacteria, and retrieved the images in sequence.
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Apple Unveils 12 of 69 New Emoji, from a Zombie to a Genie 🙃
Soon you’ll be able to text your bearded male friend about zombies launching coconuts from the backs of mermaids!
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Protesters Call for Boycott of B&H Photo After Company Ignores Workers' Demands
After B&H Photo refused to reconsider its decision to move operations at two Brooklyn warehouses to New Jersey, protesters are demanding a boycott of the company.
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A Call to Save a Floating Performance Space by Louis Kahn [UPDATED]
A 50-year-old floating performance space designed by architect Louis Kahn may be sent to a Louisiana shipyard for scrap at the end of this year's tour.
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Sam Durant Speaks About the Aftermath of His Controversial Minneapolis Sculpture
At Mexico City's SOMA headquarters, Sam Durant reflected on his "Scaffold" sculpture and how there's an enormous disparity between the art world and everyday life in the United States.
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Art Movements
This week in art news: A federal judge ordered $81 million be paid to victims of the Knoedler Gallery art forgery, an art investigator believes the work stolen from the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is in Ireland, and an unpublished book by Maurice Sendak was discovered.
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Posing for Photo, Gallery Visitor Topples Row of Pedestals Like Dominos [UPDATED]
In an LA exhibition by artist Simon Birch, a visitor lost her balance and damaged $200,000 worth of art.
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Not Just Bushwick: New Study Charts Where NYC Artists Live
While the artist population in Manhattan is in decline, the number of artists in the Bronx nearly doubled since 2000.
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Brooklyn Academy of Music Digitizes 70,000 Objects Spanning 150 Years of Performance
The Brooklyn Academy of Music's new digital archive features playbills, photographs, videos, audio, and ephemera from a century and a half of theatrical history.
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Metropolitan Museum Sets New Attendance Record with 7 Million Visitors
Amid a turbulent year, the institution announced yesterday that it set a new attendance record that surpasses last year's then-record high of 6.7 million.
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Eritrean Modernism, a Brazilian Slave Port, and More Join UNESCO World Heritage Site List
This year's session of the World Heritage Committee has resulted in 21 new sites, from the controversial Old City of Hebron in the West Bank, to a men-only island in Japan.