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This week has been pretty huge for New York City's museum community. Newly announced shake-ups mean that the Metropolitan Museum will be taking over the Whitney's uptown Breuer building as the younger institution heads downtown to a new Renzo Piano-designed space. The Museum of Modern Art is buying
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You may know Steve Martin from being one of our time's defining comedians, actors and celebrity figures. But along with those first few titles, the man is also a renowned collector of contemporary art, as well as a novelist and a playwright. These pursuits could be called hobbies if they didn't requ
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Cave paintings are so in right now! From Werner Herzog's documentary to the recent discovery of new cave paintings in Spain, primitive art is totally in fashion. These newly uncovered 25,000 year-old paintings are thin line drawings of horses and human hands, rendered in a deep red.
Opinion
A YouTube video narrated by the Metropolitan Museum's associate curator Rebecca Rabinow gives us a quick primer on the Steins, starring Gertrude and Leo. Rabinow tells us the takeaway on one of art history's greatest collecting families.
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New media and internet artist Cory Arcangel often appropriates artifacts from earlier digital times for his artwork. In a series of videos, Arcangel hacks cartridges of the original Nintendo game Super Mario Bros., twisting the game's graphics into surreal reinterpretations.
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Quayola is a multimedia artist based in London whose hybrid projects blur the line between photography and animation, the digital and the real. In this video, the artist filmed a cathedral in extreme high resolution, then used custom-programmed algorithms to fracture the image.
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Artist Takeshi Murata is known for making digital works that at first glance might not look like art at all. His abstract videos take an appropriated source, here, a movie clip of a monster rising out of a pool, and distort it into something almost unrecognizable: a free for all of color, pattern an
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It seems fitting to kick off our Videodrome day of art videos with one from Nam June Paik, an early video artist from Korea whose multimedia sculptures and installations challenged the boundaries of art making in the 60s and 70s. Here, check out Paik's “Electronic Opera #1”.
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Osama Bin Laden is dead, but that doesn't mean the vestiges of 9/11's impact on New York City are completely healed. With an infographic, the New York Times checks up on the most visible reminder of the event, the remains of Ground Zero and the construction of new World Trade Center buildings.
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Despite a very public unveiling of his sculpture in NYC, Ai Weiwei remains missing. A commercial solo show of the artist's work will go on display at Lisson Gallery in London while protesting graffiti artists were arrested in Hong Kong. Ai's case still doesn't look good, says Peter Foster.
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The National Endowment for the Arts now funds a hotly-debated form of art: video games. With the newly designated “Arts in Media” program, $10,000 to $200,000 grants from the organization can now be used to fund the production of digital games, multimedia art work and interactive applications.
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Even with New York City's constantly-full calendar of art events, this weekend is packed with shows, activities and sights for the whole family to enjoy. Check out the Festival of New Ideas around the New Museum, plus their Condo show ending this weekend, and see a new public sculpture by sculptor J