Found: Oldest Known Photo of a U.S. President (Socks and All)
A recently surfaced original daguerreotype taken in 1843 of John Quincy Adams will be auctioned at Sotheby’s in October.
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Photo CreditAbe Frajndlich for The New York Times Kara Walker: Art Can’t Solve the Nation’s Racial Problems
In the shadow of Charlottesville, viewers may to come to the artist’s fall show expecting answers. Her statement acknowledges they may be disappointed.
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Photo Credit How A.I. Is Creating Building Blocks to Reshape Music and Art
Project Magenta, a team at Google, is crossbreeding sounds from different instruments based on neural networks and building networks that can draw.
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Photo CreditDetroit Institute of Arts Detroit Museums Examine the Riots That Changed the City
Three exhibitions in Detroit show that the 1967 riots aren’t just part of the city’s history — they have lessons for all of America now.
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Photo CreditArup Garden Bridge in London Is Scrapped, Despite $48 Million Spent
Thomas Heatherwick’s controversial Thames crossing will not go ahead, after years of disputes and strife.
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Photo CreditQuinn Ryan Mattingly for The New York Times Vietnamese Art Has Never Been More Popular. But the Market Is Full of Fakes.
Prices have topped $1 million, but national museums and major auction houses have promoted works later said to be fraudulent.
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Photo CreditJack Shainman, New York Glenn Ligon Rethinks the Color Line in the Show ‘Blue Black’
The exhibition, at the Pulitzer Arts Foundation in St. Louis, draws together artists who put race on a spectrum of meanings that runs from polemical to personal and poetic.
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Photo CreditAlbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Gauguin: It’s Not Just Genius vs. Monster
An exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago looks beyond Paul Gauguin, the lout of Tahiti, to ceramic and wood objects that spoke in a new artistic language.
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Photo CreditNew Release What to See in New York Art Galleries This Week
Group shows leave an impression at New Release and Matthew Marks, and Karl Salzmann considers the psychological and emotional effects of sound.
