Opinion
If you need any more proof that 3D printing is taking over the entire world, an artist has created perfectly delicious, intricately designed Christmas cookies with the help of a computer model and a printing machine.
News
The heart of Beijing isn't the cold, highway-crossed neighborhood around Tiananmen Square, but the corridors of old, hutong-style houses just to the north. Two landmarks stand sentinel over this area — the Drum and Bell Towers, stately structures built in 1272. Now, in the name of easing access to t
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Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? Nope, it's a remote-controlled surveillance and/or killing machine. James Bridle, the coiner of the New Aesthetic, has created a model kit to help civilians better understand their UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
Art
There was a period when I didn't know what, exactly a "selfie" was. It sounded like a euphemism for something. Now I know that it's just a self-portrait — our medium of choice for Facebook and Instagram (RIP). Two recent phenomena, faked selfies and art critic Brian Droitcour's #artselfies, take the
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The starchitecture of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas might rule the day today, but the world's earliest architecture was quite a bit more, shall we say, austere. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known example of wooden architecture, a 7000-year old structure.
Art
Have you waited till the last minute to do your holiday shopping for all your arty friends? Not a problem — we have a slew of gifts for you that won't take any time at all to deliver. They're GIFs! Easily giftable and transmitted instantly over email or the social network of your choice, GIFs make t
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National Geographic, one of the most creative media institutions to embrace Instagram, is suspending its use of the social photo-sharing platform over the terms of service that have the internet in an uproar. The magazine announced the news with, what else, an Instagram post.
Opinion
Sometimes all it takes is the right gust of wind and an entire structure falls. The Yekaterinberg, Russia–based street artist Timofey Radya recently made an enormous sculpture of 55 riot shields, stacking them up in a pyramid that celebrates and critiques the one-year anniversary of the political pr
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You can catch him on giant posters, on the walls of living rooms, and in sculptural bust form in restaurants, but there's one place in China you won't be seeing Chairman Mao this year — art museums. The Chinese government has removed 10 of Andy Warhol's Mao paintings from the mainland stops of the t
Opinion
For its annual Zeitgeist Report, Google has listed everything that the entire world has Google-searched for most often this year. Art isn't much in evidence, but we do have a list of the top 10 museums of 2012.
Opinion
Are you ready for the collecting opportunity of the century? Cecilia Gimenez, the (in)famous artist behind the restoration of Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo" in a church in northeastern Spain, is selling her original work on eBay.
Art
Despite the best efforts of art critics and reporters, it remains inadvisable to talk about any art fair as an exhibition, or a precisely curated experience. They’re more like avalanches of information from which viewers can filter out their own message, in the manner of an aesthetic Ouija board. Ho