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Occupy White Walls Game Lets You Simulate Developing Your Own Blue-Chip Gallery
A van Gogh might be impossible for most of us to own in real life, but this computer game makes it a simple transaction
Haniya Rae
Haniya Rae is a freelance writer based in Brooklyn, New York. She regularly contributes to Architectural Digest and Guernica Magazine. Follow her on Twitter at @haniyarae .
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NYC’s Faltering Subway System as an Arcade Game Where Players Race Against Privatization
MTA Country, a new satiric game from Everyday Arcade lets players navigate the crumbling transit system.
Art
Pokémon Go Is a Massive Art Happening and You’re All Invited
Sure, here's the update: "It’s been two weeks and there are 35 million search results for Pokémon Go on Google and 9.5 million daily active players in the United States — which means, in terms of users, the augmented reality game has already surpassed its closest competitor, Candy Crush.
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Artists Stage Political Interventions in Video Games
“I’m interested in using games as a way to engage in and critique the fine art world, especially the economics of that world,” said Grayson Earle, an Integrated Media Arts adjunct professor at Hunter College and SUNY Baruch, and member of The Illuminator.
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I Visited the Tate (in Minecraft)
The widely beloved open world video game of Minecraft will now offer a new activity for its players to explore: interactive artworks presented by the Tate, the third installment of which was just released last week.
Books
The Economic Divide in Video Games
It’s all fun and games until the thinly veiled artifice of a virtual world becomes all too real.
Art
If Yayoi Kusama Designed a Video Game
Hohokum, a video game where you play a long, thin worm that changes color based on direction, isn’t just an art-ier version of Snakes.