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In a message sent at 4:07 pm to the Cooper Union community, Jamshed Bharucha announced today an agreement with the activist group Free Cooper Union, which had ended its occupation and vacated his office on Friday. The email, which was preceded a few minutes earlier by a campuswide message containing
Opinion
In response to the firing this week by the Los Angeles Times of their only art reporter, Jori Finkel, over a dozen museum directors and 1,387 (and counting) petition signatories have confronted LAT editor Davan Maharaj in a two-pronged bid to reinstate the laid-off journalist.
Opinion
In what can be optimistically described as a case of something lost in cultural translation, Brazil's Outback Steakhouse franchise had their American-owned ad agency design an anthropomorphized chair that "hugs" you when you are wished a happy birthday via Facebook. Yes, This is The Way We Live Toda
Art
When the Transportation Safety Administration (TSA) joined Instagram two weeks ago, the move prompted bemused and occasionally earnest reactions from the publications tasked with paying attention to these kinds of things.
Opinion
Archaeologists in China have apparently unearthed 5,000-year-old hieroglyphs, a discovery with potentially significant implications for the study of the origins of written language, the Associated Press reported today.
Opinion
According to a recent and widely publicized tiff involving a trailer leak, filmmaker Steve Loveridge's blog, and Roc Nation, terror-chic rocker M.I.A. might be taking her flailing autobiographical documentary project to the masses via Kickstarter. She announced the possibility in a tweet over the we
Opinion
"There are currently 120 detainees on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay" fades onto the white backdrop in the opening of Yasiin Bey/Mos Def's widely-circulated video published today on the Guardian. The video, directed by Asif Kapadia, shows Yasiin Bey (described as "better known as Mos Def") as he vo
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Though Ugly Duckling Presse holds that "the technology of the physical book is essentially different" from digital copies, today they have taken a significant step in making their catalogue freely available for online download. The influential "micropress," which publishes poetry, translations, lost
Interview
The addition of video games to MoMA's collection has not been a decision unaccompanied by controversy. Last November, when the acquisitions were first announced, the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones roundly critiqued the announcement in a short but scathing post titled “Sorry MoMA, video games are not art.
Opinion
As the deepening crisis of confidence in Egypt's Mohammad Morsi unfolds in the country's streets, a video shot yesterday offered a dose of the surreal: a military helicopter hovering over Tahrir Square with protestor laser beams dancing kaleidoscopically on the aircraft's belly.
Opinion
As the deepening crisis of confidence in Egypt's Mohammad Morsi unfolds in the country's streets, a video shot yesterday offered a dose of the surreal: a military helicopter hovering over Tahrir Square with protestor laser beams dancing kaleidoscopically on the aircraft's belly.
News
MoMA announced several video game acquisitions this afternoon, marking the ongoing completion of the video game collection launched in November 2012. The new additions are: the Magnavox Odyssey console (1972), Pong (1972), Space Invaders (1978), Asteroids (1979), Tempest (1981), Yar’s Revenge (1982)