Documentation

Photo Manipulation Before Photoshop
Cameron Meade |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art looks at how photographs have been modified and fabricated since the invention of the medium.

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In a Corner of Spanish Harlem, an Artist Records a Latino Struggle
Spencer Nelson |
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Secreted away in the Julia de Burgos Latino Cultural Center, an award-winning photographer shoots extreme poverty and extreme violence.

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Talk Back at Us!
Jarrett Moran |

What are you seeing? What do you have to say about it?

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Portraits of a Digital Age
Tiffany Jow |
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You see a Facebook profile page, results from a Google Image search, or a YouTube video reel. Ken Solomon sees a work of art.

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A Virtual Gallery Resurrects Lost Art
Tiffany Jow |
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An addictive new website unpacks the stories behind lost works of art from the last century.

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What Happens When You Let Schoolboys Loose in a Gallery?
Tiffany Jow |
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A group of primary school boys take on a sculpture exhibition, unattended.

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How Alighiero Boetti Became His Own Art Project (While Opening a Hotel in Afghanistan and Gaming the Postal Service)
Georgina Wells |
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MoMA’s retrospective Alighiero Boetti: Game Plan is the largest exhibit of the artist’s work outside of Italy to date. An early member of the anti-establishment art movement Arte Povera, Boetti used preexisting objects and symbols to create playful conceptual art.

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Ten Classic Films, Ten Obsessive Individuals
Georgina Wells |
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Go behind the scenes with ten obsessive filmmakers, including Ed Harris, Todd Haynes, Alfred Hitchcock, Ennio Morricone, and Hilary Swank.

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An Exhibition Like Nothing You’ve Ever Seen
Tiffany Jow |

If you see nothing, say something.

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Remembering the Folks Who Made the LES Awesome
Zach Bell, Tiffany Jow |
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Tom Sanford pays homage to some of the Lower East Side’s most prolific residents.

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Bringing Land Art into the Museum
Georgina Wells |
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MOCA’s current exhibition, Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, is the first attempt by a museum to thematically organize and display Land Art, a movement closely associated with Robert Smithson in which the physical landscape becomes the artistic medium.

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