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OWS Library Safe, According to NY Mayor's Office

Since this morning's raid of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there have been questions about the state of the movement's symbolic 5,000+ book library.

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Artist Lawyers Up After Realizing Starbucks Swiped Her Style

Last Friday, artist Ophelia Chong had the kind of day most artist's dread. On that fateful day she was told by one of her students that Starbucks was using graphics that looked a great deal like hers that … well, judge for yourself.

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A Week of Art Stories Mixel-ed

I've got the Mixel bug. Since I logged onto the image creating site, I've been enjoying the zany energy of this iPad-based collage system and all that it offers. I thought I'd have some fun and try creating collages based on some of the biggest art stories of the last week or so. Here's my Mixel-ed

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Required Reading

This week, how a Caravaggio becomes "discovered" and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?

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Yvonne Rainer Disturbed by MOCA's "Degrading Methods of Fund Raising"

The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.

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Explore Art in Brooklyn with WAGMAG/Pernod's New App

Brooklyn art gallery hopping can be challenging for the uninitiated who need the comfort of neat grids and clearly numbered streets to find their way around. My first advice, "Stay in Manhattan, we don't want you here," but if you refuse to listent then may I suggest the new "Art & Absinthe Guide to

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Mixel Makes Collage Social But …

The brainchild of Scott Ostler, co-founder of the image-sharing site Dump.fm, and Khoi Vinh, a former design director of NYTimes.com, Mixel is a free iPad app that may just be a game changer in the world of online images. Sure, we've heard it all before, another service that promises to change it al

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Yvonne Rainer Accuses Abramović & MOCA of Exploiting Performers

Since Marina Abramović was picked to provide the entertainment for LA MOCA's upcoming gala we've all been wondering what the performance art queen would conjure up to do her bidding. Now, we kind of know and it raises some serious questions, namely, is performance art ever an excuse for labor abuse?

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World's Most Syndicated Cartoonist Dies

Anyone who loves the funny pages will know the work of Bill Keane, who is best remembered for Family Circus, a long running cartoon series that celebrated family life and inspired many spoofs that were equally funny (even if some were much more demented, like Dysfuntional Family Circus, or really ph

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Devilish Giotto Discovery Ups His Art Historical Cred

In today's dose of art history geek news, we turn to the Daily Mail, which reports that "art restorers have discovered the figure of a devil hidden in the clouds of one of the most famous [13th C.] frescos by Giotto in the Basilica of St Francis in Assisi."

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Satirical Magazine French Kisses Mohammad

Last week, the French satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo published an image of Mohammad on its cover saying, "100 lashes if you don't die of laughter!" Sadly, some right-wing muslim zealots firebombed the headquarters of the magazine, but don't think that shut up the publication. No siree, this week t

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OWS Arts Asks Sculptor to Urge City to Remove Barricades Around His Art [UPDATED]

We’ve covered the way members of Occupy Wall Street have grappled with the Mark di Suvero sculpture at the corner of Zuccotti Park. They’ve called it a “weird red thing” and some think of it as corporate art, but now the Arts and Culture Working Group of OWS is making an appeal to the artist to help