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Every Digital Artwork Starts With a Sketch
Simulation Sketchbook takes as its starting point the reality that digital artists, like all artists, sketch out their work as well.
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Truth-Telling Confronts the Colonial Gaze
In this online exhibition, Indigenous artists reclaim realities long denied them by US and Canadian federal governments — including moments of collective reverie.
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What Was Hiroshima Like Before the Atom Bomb?
Wakaji Matsumoto's photographs provide a glimpse of a world in the midst of transition into the next stage of global capitalism and Westernization.
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Chronicling Contemporary Art in Las Vegas
An online platform creates a community around southern Nevada’s transitory creative life, but there’s a problem with its name.
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The Getty, Google Arts, & Banana Craze Create Three Online Shows Worth a Visit
What unites all these projects is a clear sense that they exist in a world unto itself: the digitized space.
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Why Are so Many Online Shows Phoning It In?
If a digital site is described as an “exhibition” I go to it wanting a visual experience animated by lively and inventive juxtapositions and means of navigation.
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New Online Exhibition Chronicles the Many Facets of Frida Kahlo’s Life and Work
Faces of Frida, a partnership between Google Arts & Culture and 33 partner museums, brings together some 800 artifacts from ultra-high resolution images of her work to personal objects and rarely-seen photos.
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An Interactive Database Helps You Explore the Art of Soviet Children's Books
Playing Soviet: The Visual Languages of Early Soviet Children's Books, 1917-1953 is an online interactive from Princeton University exploring children's books in the Soviet Union.
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When Dissection Was a Criminal Punishment Worse Than Death
Harnessing the Power of the Criminal Corpse is an online exhibition that unearths the macabre history of anatomy and criminal punishment.
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An Online Exhibition Asks: What Makes "The Goldfinch" So Special?
The Mauritshuis museum in the Hague created an online exhibition that reveals the hidden history of one of its most popular paintings, Carel Fabritius's "The Goldfinch" (1654).
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An Interactive Map of New York's Earliest Skyscrapers
The Skyscraper Museum's "Ten & Taller: 1874-1900" exhibition maps the first Manhattan buildings to soar beyond 10 stories.
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The Many Forms and Meanings of the Scientific Image
Seeing Science from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, is a yearlong online project that explores photography's role in defining, promoting, and furthering science.