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What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?
LOS ANGELES — If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You've just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
AX Mina
AX Mina is an artist and culture writer exploring contemporary spirituality, technology and other sundry topics. She co-produces Five and Nine, a podcast about magic, work, and economic justice, and serves on the board of the Rabkin Foundation.
Opinion
"Procrastiworking" Your Way to Creative Success
LOS ANGELES — It's hard work being a full-time artist. Sure, outsiders think artists live a free, unencumbered life, full of self-expression and joie de vivre.
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: Are We More in Love with the Idea of QR Codes?
LOS ANGELES — QR codes are almost certainly New Aesthetic. Right? Right? After my first post on a QR Code stencil, I was surprised to receive a number of pitches for other QR code-related art. If it's not a zeitgeist, it's certainly a trend.
Opinion
Tiny Food and Tiny Galaxies
LOS ANGELES — I've been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they're not ants or crumbs. It's art, folks. Just art writ small.
Opinion
New Tumblr Looks at Art in the Process of Installation
LOS ANGELES — There's only one thing I love more than art installations. And that's watching an art installation come together. And now there's a tumblelog for that.
Opinion
New Aesthetic Watch: Google BBS
LOS ANGELES — Look out, world, the New Aesthetic is coming. Or is it? We here at Hyperallergic thought we might start collecting more evidence of the tide of new aesthetics sweeping our tweeting-clicking-instagramming.
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Charges Dropped Against Chinese Artist-Activist Wu Yuren
LOS ANGELES — Chinese installation artist and activist Wu Yuren, who was arrested on questionable charges last year, has reported on Twitter that as of March 30 the charges have been dropped and that he has received his passport back.
Art
Turning the Seven Year Itch into a Retrospective
LOS ANGELES — Most artist retrospectives occur decades after an artist's career really takes off, once their name has been recognized in the annals of art world lore. But long time collaborators Chan and Mann — Audrey Chan and Elana Mann, respectively — have organized their own retrospective to reco
Opinion
NASA Captures the Motion of the Ocean
LOS ANGELES — These visualizations out of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, dubbed Perpetual Ocean, show the currents of the oceans.
Art
Is the New Aesthetic a Thing? Searching for Signs in Tupac and Google
LOS ANGELES — So much has been said about the New Aesthetic. But is it a thing?
Opinion
Aerial Photos Show Patterns of Life from Above
Photographer Alex MacLean got his pilot's license and has been capturing amazing views from above.
Opinion
Versus-Hearts is All About Rivalry
Dan Matutina's Versus/Hearts tumblelog contrasts rivals in a loving heart-shaped embrace.