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Navigating Through a Sea of Pink
After British photographer Kirsty Mackay gave birth to her first daughter in 2006, she found her life inundated by pink.
Photo Essays
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Finding Kindred Spirits at Conventions
Since 2013, photographer Arthur Drooker has been on a quest to document as many conventions as possible for his series Conventional Wisdom.
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My Invisible Drawings at Davos
There are many misconceptions about the World Economic Forum in Davos, but the biggest one seems to be this: Davos is a networking conference for the superrich.
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The Minimalist Beauty of a Renaissance-Era Geometry Book
Perspectiva Corporum Regularium (Perspective of regular solids), created in 1568 by German goldsmith and printmaker Wenzel Jamnitzer (1508–1585), is a study in shapes inspired by the five Platonic solids: tetrahedron, cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron.
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Pole Dancers Drop It Like It's Political
Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly have brought politicized pole dancing to the New Museum.
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Can 16,000 Suspended Flowers Make Times Square Tolerable?
New Yorkers often complain that Times Square feels sterile and dead. The London-based artist Rebecca Louise Law’s new installation, “Flowers 2015: Outside In,” suspended in the lobby of the Viacom building, reintroduces nature and life to the neighborhood’s largely artificial environment.
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Art Students Reconstruct the Lost Faces of Unidentified Crime Victims
Last month, students in the Forensic Sculpture Workshop at the New York Academy of Art (NYAA) made faces for 11 anonymous skulls belonging to unidentified victims of crimes.
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Inside the Christian Pockets of the Middle East
In the United States, Canada or Europe, where Christians form the religious majority, it's strange to consider parts of the world where they are not only uncommon, but also persecuted.
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Can Computers Interpret Art?
Novice Art Blogger records the impressions of a computer encountering abstract and representational art from the Tate's digitized collection for the first time.
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Exploring an Expanded Field at the Outsider Art Fair
Nowhere can you feel the silliness (and yet cloying realness) of the term "outsider art" more distinctly than at the Outsider Art Fair, which, by its very nature, is an insiders' affair.
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A Vibrant Portrait of Liberia in GIFs
In Monrovia Animated, Beaurain has produced an unusual form of GIF-as-documentary photo, one that brings to life a far-off locale and makes us consider it in a way we’ve rarely been asked to before.
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Capturing the Human Body in All Its Awkwardness
Ulrich Seidl: Stills 1998– 2014, an exhibition of Austrian director Ulrich Seidl’s film stills currently on view at OstLicht Gallery in Vienna, showcases the filmmaker’s particular relationship to the aesthetics of the imperfect human body.