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Livestreaming the City Through Police Radio
LOS ANGELES — Drawing inspiration from Robin Rimbaud and the lovely Mission Control site by soma.fm, artist Eric Eberhardt decided to turn police chatter and online radio into a media landscape.
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Opinion
A Twisted Game of Life Highlights the Pitfalls of the Creative Process
Ah, the mysteries of the creative process. Now an infographic by Viruscomix shows its twists and turns in a labyrinthine landscape. Is it accurate?
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Four Artists in Asia I'm Watching in 2012
LOS ANGELES — After spending a year living in different parts of Asia, I've been asked by many people for my thoughts on the art scene there so here are four names worth knowing.
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Art and Social Impact in Manila: 3 Shows Worth a Look
MANILA, Philippines — Shortly before I left Manila, I saw three shows that I wanted to take time to review briefly. My own biases as an artist and arts writer lean toward art that engages in some sense with social issues and society, and I found that so much Philippine art really tackled social issu
Opinion
A Dizzying City of the Future Now
Chris Burden's frenetic installation at LACMA "refers specifically to Los Angeles … of the future" but it's more reminiscent of fast-growing megacities, like Chongqing and Dubai.
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New iPad App Makes Sketching Social
MANILA, Philippines — For years now, artists and designers have had blogs and social media to give the general public access to their studios and lives. But what if you could peek into artists' very thought processes? What if you could see their sketches evolve day by day, before they're actualized
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Trick or Treat in the Manila Slums
MANILA, Philippines — The film opens casually enough. Children wearing Halloween masks float, or roll, backwards. As we pay attention to the surroundings, we realize we are following the children through the poorest conditions, which shoot past us. Over time, we realize we are on railway tracks, and
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3 iPad Apps Recreate the Museum Experience...Almost
MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th
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A Zen Buddhist and a Catholic Walk Into a Composition
MANILA, Philippines — The words “Catholic” and “Zen” rarely appear in the same sentence together, but there's a potent history of mixing of these traditions. Benedictine monk Thomas Merton famously studied Zen and Taoist classics as part of his meditative practice, and Zen Buddhist Thich Nhat Hanh h
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An Artist Grapples With the Worst Documented Attack on Journalists
MANILA, Philippines — On November 23, 2009, just a little over two years ago, Esmael Magundadatu, the vice mayor of the southern Philippine city of Buluan, invited 37 journalists to accompany him as he filed for his certificate of candidacy. The group, along with a cadre of lawyers and family, never
Opinion
Cardboard Los Angeles
MANILA, Philippines — One of the lovely things about living abroad is seeing the American art world through the internet. When in the US, I'm tugged in so many directions from brick-and-mortar spaces, but there are a ton of American gems online, and not all of them are in New York and Los Angeles. L
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The Father of Filipino Conceptual Art
MANILA, Philippines — Where does one start with Philippine contemporary art? So little is known outside the country, even amongst foreign-born Filipinos.