Hold a question in your mind, shuffle, select your cards and see into your future. For centuries, people of all walks of life have turned to tarot to divine what may lay ahead and reach a higher level of self-understanding.The cards' enigmatic symbols have become...
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Newport Pier Park, Jersey City, NJ, USAOpened October 21, 2021 Commissioned by: LeFrak Organization and Simon Property Group 2020 THE DEDICATION OF WATER'S SOUL Our bodies are 60% water. 70% of the Earth's surface is covered with water. Water is the basis of all life. Water's Soul is asking...
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An AI Algorithm Developed at MIT Can Spot Similarities Between Artworks Made in Vastly Different Periods of Art History The MosAIc algorithm compares artworks from the collections of the Rijksmuseum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Has MIT created the world’s first AI curator? A new algorithm dubbed MosAIc,...
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Portrait of Sheila Hicks with her installation from “Foray into Chromatic Zones,” London, 2015. Courtesy of PA Images / Alamy Stock Photo. Over a cup of tea at Sarabeth’s on the Upper East Side, Sheila Hicks wanted to talk about her scarf. We met on the occasion of...
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Dutch Artists Transform a Utrecht Apartment Building into a Tri-Level Trompe L’Oeil Bookcase Dutch street artists Jan Is De Man and Deef Feed recently painted a literary trompe l’oeil mural on an apartment building in Utrecht, Netherlands. The pair turned the side of the three-story building into a multi-level bookshelf...
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Japanese Illustrator Imagines A World Where Humans Live Among Giant Animals This mysterious Japanese artist, who goes by the pseudonym of Ariduka55 on social media channels, creates otherwordly illustrations that breathe life into a completely new fantasy world where giant animals live and evolve alongside humans....
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Art Historian John Richardson, Who Wrote the Definitive Four-Volume Biography on Picasso, Has Died at 95 The author's fourth and final volume on Picasso is due out this year. John Richardson. Photo by François Halard, courtesy of Rizzoli. British art historian John Richardson, known for his multi-volume biography...
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If you are someone who is excited about female empowerment as I am, then you’re going to love this! According to History Daily, during the Great Depression, unemployment rates soared, and in turn people endured extreme poverty, so many had little access to books. At the time,...
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As soon as you step foot in a museum exhibit, you’re faced with dozens of decisions: Read the wall of text that greets you at the entrance or dive right in? Walk through the room clockwise or counter-clockwise? Examine the label on each piece or...
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In celebration of some of the most influential figures from Bronx history, Brooklyn-based artist Rico Gaston has recently unveiled his series of glass mosaic murals at the 167th Street B/D subway station. Titled Beacons, the eight icons featured include Gil Scott-Heron, Tito Puente, Celia Cruz, Audre Lorde, James...
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