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The term “net.art” is less a coinage than an accident, the result of a software glitch that occurred in December 1995, when Slovenian artist Vuk Cosic opened an anonymous e-mail only to find it had been mangled in transmission. Amid a morass of alphanumeric gibberish, Cosic could make out just one legible term—“net.art”—which he began using to talk about online art and communications. Spreading like a virus among certain interconnected Internet communities, the term was quickly enlisted to describe a variety of everyday activities. Net.art stood for communications and graphics, e-m...

Editor's note: June 01, 2021 Eugenia Vargas Peirera. Two images from the series Photographs of feminist protestors, 2019. Courtesy the artist. The Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University’s Lenfest Center for the Arts is pleased to open The Protest and The Recuperation, a survey of artistic perspectives on, and responses to, the global phenomenon of mass protest and of recuperative strategies of resistance. This exhibition will be the Wallach’s first exhibition open to the general public since March 2020. The Protest and The Recuperation is curated by Wallach director and chief curator ...

SHARE With the UAE art season under way, Artsy, a leading online marketplace for art, has launched two initiatives that focus on the Mena region. Middle East Galleries Now The first, Middle Eastern Galleries Now, is an online presentation with at least 21 galleries from the UAE, Lebanon, Jordan, Egypt and Palestine, including Carbon 12, 1x1 Art Gallery, Tabari Art Space, Lawrie Shabibi, Q0DE, Art d’Egypte and Zawyeh Gallery. Akin to an art fair, the virtual exhibition, which opens on Monday and runs until the end of the month, will include booths for visitors to browse through and allow t...