Sarah Cascone

UCCA Beijing Is Staging the World’s First ‘Major’ Crypto-Art Show

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Get ready for the world’s first NFT art exhibition, coming to the UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing. NFTs, short for non-fungible tokens, are unique digital assets, individually identified on a blockchain, allowing one person to own a widely disseminated digital artwork. The show, titled “Virtual Niche—Have you ever seen memes in the mirror?,” is […]

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The Fantastical Films of Hayao Miyazaki

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Los Angeles’s long-awaited Academy Museum of Motion Pictures has revealed the details of its inaugural exhibition, the first North American retrospective celebrating the Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki (1941–) and his six-decade career. The artist and filmmaker behind such beloved movies as Castle in the Sky (1986), Princess Mononoke (1997), and the Oscar-winning Spirited Away (2001), Miyazaki co-founded the acclaimed animation

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Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh exhibition will not reopen in London.

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Due to the impact of COVID-19, we are saddened to share the news that the exhibition Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh exhibition will not reopen in London. A traveling blockbuster exhibition featuring the treasures of King Tutankhamun, the famed boy pharaoh, may have breached Egyptian laws meant to protect antiquities. In a new documentary, BBC News Arabic investigates the legality

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