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John James Audubon used to pin dead birds to the wall and quickly sketch them before they rotted. The resulting watercolors, a marriage of science and art, have influenced countless bird lovers since.
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Vasily Kamensky and the brothers Burliuk are associated with the Cubo-Futurist movement, which combined the concerns of French Cubism and Italian Futurism.
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Auxiliary Projects, formerly in Bushwick, has relocated to a new space in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
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It was in hopes of casting a more loving and empathetic spotlight on the elderly that Patrícia Monteiro created her series Life Ever After.
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The work of Lebanese photographer Serge Najjar shows a striking mix of vibrant colors and stark architectural geometry.
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The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
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They say you don't realize what you were missing until you get it. Well, New York City was missing a building for showing modern and contemporary art.
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In the past year, obscure figures from master paintings in museums around the world have been moonlighting as street art, thanks to a project called Outings.
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As the son of a hotel manager, Edoardo Flores spent his childhood around objects many of us associate solely with the niceties of vacation.
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"She was wearing such a beautiful color, a sort of inky teal," photographer Jessica Fulford-Dobson said of the Afghan girl with the carefully tied headscarf whose portrait she took last year.
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Marja Pirilä has been fascinated with the camera obscura process since the 1980s, when she worked extensively with pinhole cameras and even built a few cabin-sized contraptions.
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While looking at Sophie Hirsch's solo show Autokorrekt at Brooklyn's Signal gallery last weekend, I got an acute pang of pareidolia from two pieces made from molds of peeled pomegranate fruit.