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Art Screensaver for Your TV | 80 Famous Paintings | 4 Hour Classic Art Slideshow

October 1, 2023

Turn your TV into a beautiful piece of art with this 4 hour art screensaver for your flatscreen. This slideshow includes 80 famous paintings, each spaced 3 minutes apart with…

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Sonya Clark in 60 Seconds

September 15, 2023

artist Sonya Clark, "Monumental Cloth: The Flag We Should Know." at Cranbrook Art Museum

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Hank Willis Thomas in “Bodies of Knowledge”

July 16, 2023

As a child, artist Hank Willis Thomas was told he stared too much and asked too many questions. Today, these very attributes shape his artistic practice, which pivots on the…

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Touring Emery Walker’s House: A Captivating Arts & Crafts Treasure Trove | Visitors’ Book

May 20, 2023

The World of Interiors presents Visitors’ Book from Emery Walker’s House at 7 Hammersmith Terrace. Together with William Morris, Emery Walker was a trailblazer of the arts and crafts movement…

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How the Louvre Codified Essentialism in Art History

March 19, 2021

The art historical meta-narrative canonized by the Louvre Museum converts all artworks into specimens of their cultural moment. No wall tag can fix this.

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The South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid

August 28, 2019

In 1978, Serote and Thamsanqa (Thami) Mnyele founded the Medu Art Ensemble, an art collective that advocated for an end to the South African apartheid government through creative expression —…

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Here I Am, Luchita Hurtado — Art21

June 30, 2019

Luchita Hurtado reflects on her eight-decade-long career and the relationship between the human body and the natural world that is embedded in her work. In her Santa Monica studio, Hurtado…

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Leonora Carrington Rewrote the Surrealist Narrative for Women

June 10, 2019

In one of Carrington’s earliest stories, “The Debutante,” a young woman who does not want to go to a ball switches places with a hyena. The débutante allows her maid…

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How Abandoned and Eroding Victorian Mansions of the Gilded Age Came to Symbolize Impending Doom

November 14, 2017

In a portentous video essay for Vox, producer Coleman Lowndes explains why the highly decorated, overly trimmed Victorian mansions (McMansions of their time) of the Gilded Age went from being…

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A Chat With Mimi Pond on the Service Industry, Cocaine, and Writing the First Episode of The Simpsons

August 8, 2017

In the early 1980s, Mimi Pond’s work was everywhere. The cartoonist and illustrator was regularly published in The National Lampoon, The Village Voice, The New York Times, and Seventeen magazines;…

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