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This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Movies and Benefits

by Whitney Kimball and Ian Marshall on July 15, 2013
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You know it’s summer when MoMA’s screening “The Dark Knight,” and Art Haps is basically a list of movies. But before you run for the darkness of free, air-conditioned binge-watching, we’ve found a handful of places where you can watch, with company: on a steamboat, in a Fingerfest, or at the Studio Museum, to name a few.

Plus, for fans of Bret Easton Ellis, Paul Schrader, or Lindsay Lohan: in a strange twist of events, you can get a first look at “The Canyons” at Monya Rowe Gallery this week. Moo-vie!

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“XFR STN” at The New Museum: Liberate Obsolete Formats With Digital Technology

by Ian Marshall on July 2, 2013
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Got some old video you want digitized? The New Museum’s got you covered. XFR STN (pronounced “transfer station”), a new initiative in collaboration with their digital media affiliate Rhizome, offers video artists the opportunity to digitize their original works. Pieces long trapped in VHS tapes or other obsolete formats like U-matic or audio tapes will forever be free! Every digitized work from XFR STN will be made available immediately after transfer for free, public download in multiple formats on archive.org.

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