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• Photographer Gerd Ludwig captures 'sleeping' cars in Los Angeles

  27-02-2016 23:54
  
  There are more than seven-million registered vehicles in Los Angeles County, California. Ludwig's new photography collection explores where just a few of these cars spend their long evenings
  
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• Paul Strand photographed people living on the 'edge of society' in the Hebrides

  27-02-2016 23:48
  
  When the celebrated American photographer Paul Strand visited the Outer Hebrides in 1954, he immersed himself in a dignified community whose traditional way of life he feared was about to be disrupted by an invasion of the very modern US military
  
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• The Armory Show: the stalwart fair is still going strong

  27-02-2016 22:00
  
  When Frieze Art Fair launched its first New York edition in 2012, many asked whether the stalwart Armory Show would fold in the face of British competition. That competition seemed capably met by Noah Horowitz, the Armory’s director since 2011, but the fair’s future looked uncertain again last summer, when he departed to become Americas director for Art Basel.Heading into the Armory Show’s 18th edition, its new executive director, the former editor-in-chief of Artnet News, Ben
  
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• ‘You Want to Be a Mexican, Here You Go’: Linda Vallejo on Her ‘Brown Oscars’

  27-02-2016 16:00 via artnews.com
  For the past two years, no person of color has been nominated for an Academy Award in the four acting categories, and after this year’s nominees were announced last month, criticism poured in, not only against the Academy, for the nominations, but … Read More
  
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• Moscow judge extends detention of Russian protest artist

  27-02-2016 01:57
  
  Pyotr Pavlensky, the Russian protest artist, demanded once again in a Moscow court on Friday, 26 February, to be tried on terrorism charges for a performance in which he set fire to the doors of the Federal Security Service (FSB). Pavlensky was arrested after that piece in November and at end of the pre-trial hearing, Judge Natalya Larina extended his detention until 5 April. The artist is being charged with ideologically motivated vandalism.In video fr om the courtroom posted on YouTube, Pavle
  
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• Study: A Clean Desk Might Impede Creativity

  27-02-2016 01:39 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  “Clean up your desk too much and you might find you’ve accidentally cleaned out your mind.”
  
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• People Are Stealing The Stones That Stonehenge Came From And Selling Them On EBay

  27-02-2016 00:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  A quarry which scientists have recently identified as being the source of Stonehenge’s famous rocks is being plundered at a “terrifying rate” by thieves selling them on eBay for £8, tourism bosses say.
  
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