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DETROIT — “The greatness of America lies not in being more enlightened than any other nation, but rather in her ability to repair her faults,” wrote Alexis de Tocqueville. The US is great because it can roll up its sleeves and fix its problems. On December 3, US Bankruptcy Judge Steven Rhodes ruled
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SAN FRANCISCO — At 3:30 am on November 6, a fire swept through the scanning center of the Internet Archive. The news was poignant for an organization that thinks hard about how information is lost and the best ways to save it.
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Last week I was asked by the editors at Hyperallergic to fly to Miami and document the attendees at their Aqua Art Miami party. Of course, at first I was insulted and hung up on them.
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“Is this relationship built on trust?” Nigel Nolan asks in a caption directed at FeD, one of his “Argentine boys for sale.” The relationship in question is structured on commodity exchange: FeD’s image in exchange for a cut of the sales from it. Argentine Boys for Sale, a 500-page ebook with accompa
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In the 1960s, a Denver-based psychiatrist and a man who believed he could take photographs with his thoughts staged a series of experiments with Polaroid instant film. Dr. Jule Eisenbud and his test subject, Ted Serios, a former bellhop, were trying to prove that a psychic projection could manifest
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Creative Commons recently announced Version 4.0 of their licenses, which enables more anonymity, international translation options, and opportunities to regain rights if they've been inadvertently violated.
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Former New York Times columnist Deborah Solomon's new biography of Norman Rockwell, American Mirror, hints that America's "most beloved artist" may have been a closeted gay man.
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OKLAHOMA CITY — The last time I checked in on the Womb — the art space opened by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne with collaborators Rick Sinnett and Jake Harms — they were about to reopen.
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It's been about a decade since Mariko Mori had a museum show in New York, and much has changed in the Japanese artist's work.
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CHICAGO — Led Zeppelin, man — they were so before my time. Arguably the inventors of heavy metal, the band reached their height of fame in the early 1970s with the song “Stairway to Heaven” on their untitled fourth album. Through the works of artist Karolina Gnatowski, now on view in the artist's so
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This duck tale is no canard: An Emirates car wash is in hot water after deploying a maritime facsimile of Florentijn Hofman's giant rubber duck — "Rubber Duck" (2009) — as a marketing stunt.
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