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• What did we do before cats on the web? The Smithsonian finds out

  13-05-2017 23:00
  
  Researchers in the Smithsonian Institutions Archives of American Art in Washington, DC, have been through a phase of finding cats everywherein sketches, drawings, diaries and lettersand the result is a new exhibition, Before Internet Cats: Feline Finds from the Archives of American Art (until 29 October). The show comprises 60 objects featuring cats, including material by artists such as Jasper Johns, Hedda Sterne and Louise Nevelson. The exhibitions curator, Mary Savig (a self-confessed dog pe
  
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• In Search Of Robert Rauschenberg

  13-05-2017 15:35 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  Deborah Solomon travels to Lafayette, La. to meet the artist's sister and learn about his dyslexia and their fundamentalist Christian upbringing, talks to a classmate at Black Mountain College from whom he stole a quilt to use in an early artwork ("The next time I saw it was at the Leo Castelli Gallery"), and has coffee-with-Häagen-Dazs in a Williamsburg loft with Susan Weil, Rauschenberg's ex-wife and the woman who taught him how to make photograms.
  
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• Golden Lions in Venice for Anne Imhof and Franz Erhard Walther, Silver for Hassan Khan

  13-05-2017 12:13 via artnews.com
  At an event in Venice this morning, the organizers of the 57th Arte Biennale announced that Anne Imhof has won the Golden Lion for best national participation, for her chilling show in the German pavilion, which involves a dark, fractured … Read More
  
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• The Downfall Of The Once Magical Pixar

  13-05-2017 00:02 via feedproxy.google.com
  
  The studio literally reinvented the genre with Toy Story, the first computer-generated 3-D-animated feature film. Each subsequent Pixar release offered new feats of technical wizardry, from engineering the delicate trajectories of millions of individual strands of fur in 2001’s Monsters, Inc. to capturing the wondrous interplay between light and water in 2003’s Finding Nemo. Even as others gradually caught up with Pixar’s visual artistry, the studio continued to tell stories of
  
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