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Google Opens Its Online Exhibition Interface to All
Today, Google launched Google Open Gallery, which opens its online exhibition tools to any artist, museum, archive, or gallery.
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Questions Artists Ask Themselves
Is art meaning?
Art
Art Rx
This week, New York brings you video games, emojis, and Planet of the Apes — pop culture galore.
News
Where's the Money? US Arts and Culture Economy By the Numbers
An unprecedented survey of the role of the arts in the larger economy, last week's breakdown of the GDP contribution of America's creative industries in 2011 is illuminating and depressing, if not entirely surprising in its conclusions.
Opinion
Photographing Secret Places
If you're unfamiliar with the work of Trevor Paglen, then I would suggest you change that right now through this excellent short video (08:59) from the Creators Project.
Opinion
Generate Exhibition Titles with the Click of a Button
I was extremely pleased this afternoon when Museum Nerd tweeted the Lazy Curator Random Exhibition Title Generator. Conceived by Rebecca Uchill and programmed by Ben Guaraldi, the site, well, generates amazing exhibition titles at the click of a button.
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Philadelphia's The Fabric Workshop and Museum Presents New Work by Sarah Sze
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Marc Jancou, Cady Noland, and the Case of the Authorless Artwork
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Ending not with a bang but a whimper, the last bit of legal wrangling in the case that pitted collector Marc Jancou against Cady Noland and Sotheby’s was quietly settled on November 11.
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For Dayanita Singh, Photography as Literature
LONDON — At a press view on the Southbank, Dayanita Singh warned the assembled crowd that she gets a twinge whenever referred to as a photographer. And yet her photographs proliferate throughout the Hayward Gallery, where her exhibition Go Away Closer is installed, with many more on display than a c
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Mandela is gone, Hopi artifacts go on sale in Paris, smarm is bad, books on Lucian Freud, playing da Vinci's piano-cello, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Risk
With the rollout of Obamacare rolling out once more, the chatter is again all about risk: risk pools, risks corridors, pricing risks, risk adjustments — calling to mind the words of former Vice President Dan Quayle, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
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What Happens When We Run Out Of Styles?
What does it mean when you hook up your work to that of a late modernist giant working in a reductive vein – Ad Reinhardt, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, Ellsworth Kelly, Frank Stella, or Donald Judd, for example – like a caboose?