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Online Art: Tedium Is the Medium
Online exhibition space The State has a new show up: Jacob Broms Engblom's “wShare” is a fetishization of those internet moments when we're just caught waiting.
Kyle Chayka
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An Appreciation of MoMA's Miniature Picasso
Walking through the Museum of Modern Art's modern galleries the other day, I happened upon a small painting that's about as powerful a work as any I've ever seen in the museum, and maybe my favorite object in the collection. Surprisingly, this mini work is actually a Picasso, and even at 6 1/4 by 4
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Ai Weiwei Offered Berlin Professorship; Legal Case Looks Bad [UPDATE]
Though the artist remains arrested and his whereabouts and status are still unknown, Ai Weiwei has been offered a guest professorship at Berlin's University of the Arts, the official position financed by the Einstein Foundation and supported by Danish artist Olafur Eliasson. Meanwhile, NYU professor
Opinion
How the Sun Sets in Google Images
Can a sunset be crowd-sourced? Artist Jasper Elings has done just that with “Sharing a Beautiful Sunset” (2009), a 1 minute video that creates one single ocean sunset from hundreds of disparate images found on Google Images. The resulting video, set to a industrial drone soundtrack, is both poetic f
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Pantheon Puts Street Artists Behind Glass
Across the street from the Museum of Modern Art at West 53rd Street is an exhibition that might be unexpected for those expecting only Van Goghs and Picassos. Pantheon: a history of art from the streets of NYC is an attempt to create solidified narrative of street art history, to pin down this ephem
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ATTN: North Brooklyn Artists, Northpoint Open Studios Meet & Greet Tues Night
Attention all neighborhood artists! Northside Open Studios is hosting a meet and greet from 7:30 to 10:30 pm this Tuesday night (April 26) at Brooklyn Brewery in preparation for the Northside Open Studios (NOS) bonanza coming up in June. Mix and mingle with fellow artists and curators, plus grab a c
Opinion
Photo Break: Urs Fischer's Giant Yellow Teddy Bear
Stationed outside of the Seagram building at 75 Park Avenue between 52nd Street and 53rd Street is a giant yellow teddy bear. Oh yeah, it also has a lamp sticking out of its back and through its head. Urs Fischer's monumental sculpture “Untitled (Lamp/Bear)” has already attracted attention for its u
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Gregory Crewdson Shoots Ancient Rome
Photographer Gregory Crewdson is largely known for his surreal suburban landscapes, posed and shot like something out of a postmodern Edward Hopper painting. But the artist also has a more sensitive side. In this series featured in the New York Times, Crewdson shoots a partly retired Italian movie s
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Small Child Confused, Delighted by Kusama Dot Room
All art lovers have had those revelatory moments when visual art just blows our minds. It's surprising, beautiful, provocative, painful, confusing and every kind of emotion at once. I think that's what the small child in this video is feeling when he wanders into one of Yayoi Kusama's infinite dot r
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Hong Kong Media: Ai Weiwei Confessed to Tax Charges Under Torture [UPDATE 2]
Hong Kong news channel and media organization RTHK is reporting that Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has confessed to tax charges under torture. The original article came from a reporter claiming to work for Xinhua, the state-run media mouthpiece of the Chinese government.
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Chinese Twitter Bots Spam #AiWeiwei Hashtag
Internet users looking for information on Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's arrest will now find another roadblock put in their way, as Ai Weiwei-related hashtags are now being spammed by Chinese-language bots. Hashtags including #aiweiwei and #freeaiweiwei are being bombarded with semi-risque jokes and on
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Gaudi's Sagrada Familia Damaged in Arson Fire
On April 19, Barcelona's iconic Sagrada Familia Basilica, designed by famed architect Antoni Gaudi, caught fire. A fire burned inside the structure for over 45 minutes before firefighters could put it out, destroying the church's sacristy and badly damaging the crypt.