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The starchitecture of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas might rule the day today, but the world's earliest architecture was quite a bit more, shall we say, austere. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known example of wooden architecture, a 7000-year old structure.
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National Geographic, one of the most creative media institutions to embrace Instagram, is suspending its use of the social photo-sharing platform over the terms of service that have the internet in an uproar. The magazine announced the news with, what else, an Instagram post.
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Just as the backlash against Instagram has been gaining steam, Instagram is finally coming forward to clarify what their new terms of service mean for users.
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You can catch him on giant posters, on the walls of living rooms, and in sculptural bust form in restaurants, but there's one place in China you won't be seeing Chairman Mao this year — art museums. The Chinese government has removed 10 of Andy Warhol's Mao paintings from the mainland stops of the t
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This week, artists on Facebook, where children sleep, Oscar Niemeyer's architectural legacy, tax reform and arts giving, Canada's crowd-sourced art prize, how a Brit learned to speak American, some parallels between malls and wars, and more.
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On the heels of Hyperallergic's Hrag Vartanian predicting the rise of the 3D printed art object, Wired has a story about a project at Harvard in which archeologists are using the technology to recreate an ancient one.
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The 1913 Armory Show was a watershed moment, introducing American artists and the art-viewing public to the European avant-garde, including artists like Picasso, Matisse, Duchamp, Brancusi, and more. And now, just in time for the show's centennial next year, we know a little more about it, thanks to
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Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Gallery of Art will be remaining in its historic building after all, backing off from plans it had been developing to sell its aging Beaux-Arts structure, which it has resided in since 1897, and move out to the city's suburbs.
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The 11 Cooper Union students who barricaded themselves in the school's Foundation Building clock tower have emerged, ending their occupation a week after it began.
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96 hours into the student occupation of the Cooper Union's historic clock tower, Jolene Travis, Assistant Director of Public Affairs, Media Relations at Cooper Union released a statement to the press and on Cooper's website today regarding the situation. The press release may have been timed to coin
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Yesterday, over sixty students in solidarity with the eleven clock tower occupiers demonstrated outside at the school’s board of trustees meeting, where plans for charging tuition were discussed. According to The Local, three students managed to enter the boardroom before the doors were blocked by s