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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 Indonesian Artist Paints Fundamentalists as Buffoons and Monkeys
Agus Suwage’s deeply personal works never stop questioning and working to upend oppression.
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The Biodiversity of the World Captured in Five Centuries of Animal Art
Charlotte Sleigh's book The Paper Zoo explores 500 years of scientific animal illustration as seen in the collections of the British Library.
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Fixed on Bodies at the Moving Image Art Fair
Despite a new section devoted to virtual reality, the strongest trend running through the 2017 fair is work grounded in the body and its place in society.
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The Getty's Online Palmyra Exhibition Falls into Orientalist Traps
A new online exhibition on the ancient Syrian city of Palmyra by the Getty Research Institute forgoes the city's historical complexity to take an Orientalist approach.
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Abstracting the Data of the Natural World with Colorful Geometries
Julie Wolfe tries to make sense of the natural world by gathering and categorizing all kinds of sights and objects that offer no scientific information but inspire search for meaning, like puzzles.
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The Psychedelic Pollution Floating in the Gowanus Canal
Steven Hirsch's photographs capture unexpected beauty in one of America's most polluted waterways.
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A Death Labyrinth, a Steampunk Space Club, and More in the New Museum's First VR Exhibition
From a watery remix of Call of Duty to an elegiac star system commemorating victims of police brutality, the online-only exhibition's six VR works showcase a range of possible worlds.
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A Video Game Immerses You in an Opera Composed by Dogs
In David Kanaga's latest game, Oiκοςpiel, an immortal Donkey Koch (of the Koch brothers) commissions a group of dogs to produce a digital opera for an arts festival scheduled for 2100.
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Fred Wilson Strips Culture Down to Black and White
The exhibition Black to the Powers of Ten at Oberlin's Allen Memorial Art Museum showcases the artist's extensive examination of black identity and labor.
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The Spectral Sounds of Endangered and Extinct Languages
Susan Hiller's latest video, on view at Pérez Art Museum Miami, features 23 endangered or extinct languages spoken by the people who know them best.
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Aiming to Disrupt Ads in New York City, Artworks Instead Blend In
Public Art Fund's Commercial Break places interventions by 23 artists on advertising screens around the city.