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Video of Man Smashing Ai Weiwei Vase Emerges
BBC has uncovered unverified video of Miami artist Maximo Caminero destroying part of Ai Weiwei's "Colored Vases" (2006–12) artwork.
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Google to Hang Its Doodle in San Francisco's Mission District
In the Bay Area, where Silicon Valley's private-shuttle ingenues are a nightmare vanguard to low-income residents in rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods, Google has taken the unprecedented step of directly leasing office space in one such area: San Francisco's Mission district.
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A Bookmobile Becomes a Book
Remember the thrill of finding the library bookmobile as a kid? I do.
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Pussy Riot Members Detained in Sochi
Russian police arrested Pussy Riot members Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Maria Alekhina earlier today in Sochi, the New York Times reports.
Comics
An Artist's Winter Blues
What's worse than the "starving artist" concept …
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Art Rx
This week, the ruminations of a pioneering hip-hop photographer, a massive show of Italian Futurism, and the last chance to see Julie Ault's collection at Artists Space.
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President Obama Pens Personal Apology to an Art Historian
Professor Ann Collins Johns at the University of Texas at Austin was just as peeved as many people were about President Barack Obama's knock on art history majors. So she did what any self-assured art historian would do and wrote a letter to Obama on January 31, shortly after the President's remarks
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Real or Not? New York Hotel Flaunts Contested Keith Haring Painting
High up among the stars, red and green dancers wriggle. They squiggle across the upturned belly of a writhing, orange snake, itself carried aloft by two bold stick figures. It’s obviously a Keith Haring work. Or at least it looks like one. But in case you had questions, a golden plaque beside it ann
Books
Two Illustrators Tackle the Stories of New York City and San Francisco
Hello, New York: An Illustrated Love Letter to the Five Boroughs and Meanwhile in San Francisco: A City in its Own Words — each being published in March by Chronicle Books — are like compilations of memory from living in a city.
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Artist Smashes Ai Weiwei Vase to Protest Museum's Snub of Local Artists
Miami-based artist Maximo Caminero, 51, hurled himself into the media spotlight when he dropped a vase that was part of Ai Weiwei's According to What? retrospective currently at the Perez Art Museum Miami.
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Legendary Iranian Diva Challenges Taboos with Lesbian Couple
The name Googoosh is pop cultural catnip to people across Western and Central Asia, and her latest video "بهشت" (Behesht or Heaven), which was released on Valentine's Day, may be the first explicit reference to lesbianism in mainstream Iranian pop culture.
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Art's Post-Media Malaise
PARIS — The post-media suggestion itself has been the subject of deliberation for around two decades now. This audacious anthology cleverly brings some of these historical texts together, along with newly commissioned ones, to explore the shifting ideas and speculative practices associated with the