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Sports, Illustrated

By Posted 02/16/12
Harold Edgerton’s stroboscopic photograph Football Kick, 1938.

An exhibition at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts explores the transformation of sports from leisure activity to mass spectacle Read More

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Seeing Red at MoMA

By Posted 02/09/12
Yevgeniy Fiks in his guerrilla performance Communist Tour of MoMA, 2010

The museum sanctions a “Communist Tour” of the Diego Rivera show–and more Read More

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When Is a Reward Not a Reward?

By Posted 01/24/12
Also recovered, Turner’s Light and Color. Both works were on loan to the Schirn Kunsthalle.

Experts disagree over whether paying for information leading to the recovery of stolen art might actually encourage more thefts Read More

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Stalled at the Gate

By Posted 01/19/12
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Mark Wallinger’s glorious history of unrealized public-art projects Read More

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Sailing with the Kabakovs

By Posted 12/22/11
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The artist duo has launched a project, for and by schoolchildren, to promote tolerance and diversity Read More

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The Persistence of Memories

By Posted 11/01/11
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Pioneering programs at MoMA and other museums show that engagement with modern art can improve quality of life for Alzheimer’s patients and their caregivers Read More

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L.A. Stories

By Posted 10/04/11
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Shining light on uncatalogued archives, misplaced works, and undocumented careers, more than 60 venues in Southern California present shows on the art of postwar Los Angeles Read More

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Designing Mind

By Posted 09/29/11
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Bill Moggridge wants to bring design out of the Cooper-Hewitt and into the public conversation Read More

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Hidden No More

By Posted 09/27/11
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The Polish contemporary-art scene looks to shake off its past Read More

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Puff Piece

By Posted 09/15/11
Xu Bing printing on whole tobacco leaves. Credit: COURTESY DUKE UNIVERSITY, DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA

“The ‘Tobacco Project’ began with an interest in the aroma of tobacco,” Chinese artist Xu Bing says over a dim-sum breakfast in New York. Likening it to something between sociology and art, he is referring to the third iteration of … Read More