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An Australian internet activist named Julian Assange (bio [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julian_Assange]) exposes top secret American diplomacy on an international website. He's profiled last June in The New Yorker by Raffi Khatchadourian, photographed by Phillip Toledano [http://hyperallergic.tumblr
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The 2010 Turner Prize was announced last night, and Susan Philipsz was named the winner (against betting company William Hill’s unlikely odds of 16/5). Her piece, "Lowlands Away" (2010), has been much ballyhooed as the first sound installation to win the award for UK artists under the age of 50. The
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The great dynastic rulers of history have always called upon the best architects of their time to design their monuments and capital cities. iMagnate Steve Jobs is no different: Apple will work with British starchitect Norman Foster to design the company's new campus in Cupertino, California, rumore
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We're collecting reactions to last week's #Rank [http://www.facebook.com/pages/HashtagRank/172812192730772?v=info] event at the Seven Art Fair. Did you attend? Lead an event? Stumble upon it? Watch the livestream or follow it via Twitter? Which ever way you noticed it or tuned in, I want you to shar
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Sure they love the money, but not all Miamians are kumbaya about the alien spacecraft that is the art fairs and its annual landing in South Beach. The Miami New Times has a hilarious list of why they are glad the fairs are over [http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/12/50_reasons_were_glad_art
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Last night's party at the Fountain art fair [http://www.fountainexhibit.com/calendar.html] started off great with a rum bar and tacos that you could garnish which freshly picked mint and cilantro, but soon before midnight it devolved into an art auction where descending bids allowed the buyer — and
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On a recent RT America segment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4ydriHDUU], a Catholic League spokesperson is calling David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" video anti-Christian and compares ants on Jesus to "putting a swastika on a synagogue." The video was part of the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek ex
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I am offering to erase my signature from signed books at 92nd St. Y.less than a minute ago [http://twitter.com/SteveMartinToGo/status/10532711747821568] via web[http://a2.twimg.com/profile_images/1121180802/twitter_normal.jpg]http://twitter.com/SteveMartinToGoSteve Martin [http://twitter.com/SteveMa
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Hyperallergic tweep @remaerdyaD pointed out that David Wojnarowicz' video, recently removed from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition, has also been flagged as “inappropriate for some users” on YouTube, meaning that viewers will have to sign in to the website and check their safety s
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In light of the recent censorship removal of an ant-covered Jesus video [http://hyperallergic.com/13726/smithsonian-dangerous-precedent/] by the Smithsonian Museum, we wanted to make one thing clear and we couldn't think of a better way to do it then with Johnny Phoenix's "A Note to All the Indigeno
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We already warned you [http://hyperallergic.com/13020/5-projects-hashtagrank-miami/], so it should be no surprise that Paul Steen's art world-ized open source video game based on Assault Cube [http://assault.cubers.net/], but injected with 150 of the "most important living artists" according to Artf
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Man Bartlett's "Kin" during the last day of #TheSocialGraph [../thesocialgraph] exhibition. We will have a photo essay tomorrow and there are a few more podcasts on the way, but last Saturday we threw a closing party for the show, which featured livestreaming of Man Bartlett's "#24hKith [http://manb