Art
SAN FRANCISCO — I've often called internet ephemera, like visual memes and animated GIFs, the street art of the social web. But as with physical street art, the ability to make a masterpiece requires a wide variety of technical skills.
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The epitome of our pervasive mustache culture is captured in the photography of Greg Anderson, who traveled to New Orleans to photograph the 2013 Beard and Mustache Championships.
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There's an Ancient Greek story that many art lovers know, from the 5th century BCE. Zeuxis and Parrhasius were known as the best painters of the time, so the citizens held a contest to determine who indeed was the best. At that time, the value of painting was in its re-creation of reality. A paintin
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SAN FRANCISCO — Google Street View, as anyone who's had to visit a new place has acknowledged, is eminently useful.
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Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been prohibitively expensive.
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Step into a restaurant in Korea, and sometimes in Koreatowns, and you'll find a simple button next to your table. Press the button, and the waiter or waitress shows up. It's an elegant solution to a perennial problem: getting the attention of extremely busy people.
Opinion
LA-based artist Daniel Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994 and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account.
Opinion
The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies is an online-only museum that celebrates the artistic relics of yesteryear.
Art
OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Heyku, a new app that takes an Instagram approach to poetry. One of our readers, Luke Agbaimoni, wrote in about his site, micropoetry.com, which features some of the existing practices of poets online.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Those of us who study photography are familiar with the notion of the photographer's gaze.
Opinion
OAKLAND, Calif. — I don't know if it's just me, but alien life — and our fascination with it — seems to have hit something of a crescendo recently. There's the question of alien life in Earth's atmosphere. We have the continued search on Mars, despite an utter dearth of evidence, and there's even a
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OAKLAND, Calif. — There's the old thought experiment in the days before social media and mobile phones: if you could send a message in a bottle, where would it end up?