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The Museum of Modern Art, which has defined Modernism more powerfully than perhaps any other institution, can often seem monolithic in the mind’s eye, essentially unchanged since its doors opened in 1929: a procession of solemn white-box galleries, an ice palace of formalism, the Kremlin (as the artist Martha Rosler once called it) of 20th-century art.

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I can’t predict results of the November presidential election, but I can tell you that women are going to rule the 2016-17 art season, with enough having solo museum shows to form an entire White House cabinet, and then some.

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A new art installation hopes to change people's perception of plastic wastes. "Natural Plasticity" is a project of artists Jana Cruder and Matthew LaPenta, which aims to draw attention to the growing problem of plastic pollution.

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California’s Santa Monica is home to more than three miles of beaches and fresh breeze from the Pacific, and is one of National Geographic’s top 10 beach cities in the world. Santa Monica Beachboasts more than 300 days of sunshine a year, but it has a striking shortage of a critical resource: drinking water.

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Nicole Moffett Shulde is the poster child for artist support programming of the Lincoln Arts Council (LAC), and for what can grow out of the opportunities made possible by those who invest in their arts community.

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A pilot study from a group of Dutch scientists implies that being told that an image is an artwork automatically changes our response, both on a neural and behavioural level. This may mean that our brains automatically up or down-regulate emotional response according to the whether they think something should be understood at face value, or whether it should be interpreted as art. This tends to lend support to an over 200 year old theory of art, first put forward by the philosopher Immanuel Kant in his Critique of Judgement.

Los Angeles–based conceptual designer and artist Michael Jantzen’s latest public-art concept is a series of steel solar-electric sculptures meant to increase sustainability awareness.

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As far as art books go, “Matisse in the Barnes Foundation,” published last year by Thames & Hudson, is pretty exquisite: Three hardback volumes, totaling 894 pages, that tell the story of the works that are a bedrock of the Barnes Foundation collection in Philadelphia.

The books come in a special clothbound slipcase and boast features such as tinted paper, full-bleed photographs and fold-out pages that allow the reader to see Matisse’s work in great detail — all of it elegantly composed by Pentagram, an award-winning design firm. 

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Dog parks? Better than human parks. Doggy bags? Better than dumping your leftovers in the trash. Dogsledding? Superior to tobogganing, by far. Yes, the old adage is true. Doing it doggy style makes everything better—even starchy old art exhibits, as inventor Dominic Wilcox proves. His latest whimsical design project is the world's first art exhibition for dogs.

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Children consider them beloved companions. Parents think of them as cuddly toys. Psychiatrists call them transitional objects, comforting possessions that help the young navigate their way from helplessness to independence. But right now at the New Museum, they’re playing an unexpected role: elements of art.

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If you think Instagram isn't real art, think again.

From London to Singapore, exhibits are curating photos exclusively from Instagram, and featuring the artists behind the accounts just like they would any photographer or artist.

At a recent show in Singapore, dubbed the "K+ Instagram Exhibition," 13 Instagram users had recent posts enlarged, printed on canvasses and priced to sell to anyone who wanted to pay for them. At the show, Instagram posts were available for purchase for $67 or $102 with frames.