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How Fascism Complicates the Beauty of Italian Postwar Photography
NeoRealismo: The New Image in Italy, 1932–1960 presents an intricate survey on how photography changed (or didn't) during Italy's transition from Fascism to democratic capitalism.
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Week in Review: SpaceX Launches Art in Space, Banksy Raffles Sculpture for $2.50
Also, Russia will pay Pussy Riot $43,500, Anish Kapoor wins a legal battle against the NRA, and more.
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Mississippi Museum of Art Receives Over 100 Works, and Dia:Beacon Acquires Charlotte Posenenske's Sculptural Pieces
Plus, work by Theaster Gates sells at Sotheby's Miami (RED) auction, and Penn State installs a George Rickey sculpture.
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Photographs of Beirut’s Abandoned Houses, Decades After the Civil War
For seven years, Gregory Buchakjian has surveyed and photographed Beirut’s deserted buildings, memorializing a vanishing urban landscape and the lives that intersected with it.
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Tumblr’s New Adult Content Filter Thinks This Bowl of Fruit Is NSFW
What do Batman, Garfield, and Big Bird have in common? They've all been marked for deletion by Tumblr's faulty new algorithm meant to censor adult content on the website ahead of its outright ban on December 17.
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The University of Texas at Austin Invites Applications for MFA in Studio Art Program
Join our vital community of diverse and engaged artists in this intellectually-rigorous interdisciplinary program based in Austin, Texas.
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Earn an MFA in Print Media at Cranbrook Academy of Art
The only solely studio-based program in the country that takes a holistic approach to print, tracing a lineage that connects 7th-century Chinese woodblocks to Internet memes and Twitter.
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Museum Creates Program for Families Suffering from the Opioid Crisis
Approximately 72,000 Americans died from drug overdoses in 2017 alone. For families hurt by addiction, the Currier Museum of Art in New Hampshire has created an unprecedented program that uses art as a healing tool for those affected by the epidemic in a state that's ranked third in the nation for d
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Colorado State University Invites Applications for the Three-Year MFA Program
CSU’s Department of Art and Art History offers the advantages of a fine art school with the added benefit of being directly connected to the vast resources available at a Tier-1 research institution.
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Leaving Cynicism Aside to Take a Fresh Look at Detroit
For Ryan Standfest to give off a defeatist vibe in the face of adversity is nothing new, but for him to use humor as a coping mechanism rather than a distancing device is refreshing.
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Documenting Damaged Cultural Heritage and Human Suffering in Yemen’s Civil War
Yemeni human rights organization Mwatana has issued a report based on years of research, titled, “The Degradation of History: Violations Committed by the Warring Parties against Yemen’s Cultural Property."
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Art Movements
Charlotte Prodger wins the 2018 Turner Prize, the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures won $250,000 from Sotheby's to stage an exhibition on Black cinema, and more.