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Dancing with Drones
Eleven Play is a Japanese dance group that incorporates advanced technologies directly into their practice.
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Metropolitan Museum of Art Releases 400,000 Images, with Restriction
Late last Friday, the Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that it has made 400,000 images of artworks in its collection available for free download — but the move comes with a major caveat: the images are only intended for noncommercial, scholarly use.
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Required Reading
This week, damaged Rothko back on view at the Tate, Latin American art in US museums, documentary photographer and the anger of their subjects, Istanbul's disastrous new protest space, Hiroshi Sugimoto in Paris, stereotyping the "other" on book covers, and more.
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Weekend Words: Forget
The European Union wants Google to learn how to forget.
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Notes from New Orleans: Prospect.3 Artists Announced
NEW ORLEANS — Judging from this week’s press events announcing the artistic and venue lineup for Prospect.3, it looks like things are indeed going to be shaken up considerably in New Orleans this fall.
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Instagrams from Frieze Week
We've been having a lot of fun with our Instagram feed, and over the last week we gave followers a firsthand look at the art fairs and events in New York during Frieze Week.
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Required Reading
This week, Peggy Guggenheim troubles, bell hooks on Beyoncé, Marianne Boesky on art, an unknown genius of Art Deco, lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Art, ruining Thomas Kinkade, and more.
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Weekend Words: Foster
After fierce opposition from scholars, writers, critics and the public, the New York Public Library announced this week that it has reversed its plan, developed by Pritzker Prize–winning architect Norman Foster (aka Lord Foster of Thames Bank), to revamp its landmark Beaux-Arts building on Fifth Ave
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People Can't Stop Looking at Art
We may have moved from magnifying glasses and paper brochures to smartphones, but otherwise not much has changed about looking at art.
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Required Reading
This week, the secret of the pyramids, morality of architects, bell hooks on Sheryl Sandberg's "faux feminism," photographing "whiteness," Whitney Biennial on Charlie Rose, and more.
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Weekend Words: Move
The Whitney Museum will soon be moving to its new location near the High Line, and the Metropolitan Museum will be moving its modern and contemporary art collection into the Whitney's historic Marcel Breuer building.
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Google Glass Sponsorship Bodes Ill for New Museum
The future of art has arrived, and it looks ... not like James Franco dressed in drag, but like a software developer wearing a silly-looking pair of futuristic glasses. Yes, the future of art is a Glasshole, coming to a museum near you.