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Art World Missed Connections: Sherman-esque Blonde at MoMA, Sexy Museum...
In our ongoing quest to meet the unwitting art-going companions who we stalked around such and such museum or gallery any given week, ARTINFO continues to compulsively check the Craigslist “Missed...
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Art World Missed Connections: “Edgy” Whitney Barista, “Breathtaking” Met...
All four of this week’s Art World Missed Connections come to us from uptown museums, two of them involving staff — one American Museum of National History (AMNH) worker and a barista at Untitled, the...
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Natural History Museum’s New Book Highlights Art’s Contibution to the Study...
Before photography and video, the only way to convey the unfamiliar shape of a newly discovered animal or the terrain of a foreign place was through art. This week, the American Museum of Natural...
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MoMA Will Be Open Seven Days a Week Starting in May
In a subtle bit of one-upmanship, the Museum of Modern Art announced today that it will be open seven days a week starting next month, beating the Metropolitan Museum to the punch — that institution...
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Art World Missed Connections: Young Clive Owen in the Elephant Room, and More
It’s been a few weeks since the last edition of Art World Missed Connections, and that hiatus has left us with a major trove of posts this week, including a few exceptional entries, and even one...
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Art World Missed Connections: Banksy-Lover, Revisiting “Discovering...
With New York City in the grips of Banksy fever, it was only a matter of time before the street artist-in-residence made an appearance in Art World Missed Connections, and now that time has come. Other...
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Longtime AMNH Diorama Painter Dies at 98
If you have ever been to the American Museum of Natural History in New York, you’ve seen the work of Fred Scherer. A major contributor to the painted backdrops of over a dozen dioramas throughout the...
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Natural History Museum’s Blue Whale Gets Annual Scrub Down
Up on 86th street, the American Museum of Natural History’s 21,000-pound blue whale is undergoing its annual cleaning. With the aid of a vacuum and a cherry picker, museum staffer Brittany Janaszak...
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