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In a World Where Everyone Is Measured by a Public Follower Count
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These Are the Best GIFs on the Internet Right Now
Do you lie awake at night, sweating bullets, crippled by an unshakable insecurity, a sinister hunch crowding your mind, a sour soupçon that perhaps you are not viewing the "right" GIFs on the internet? Fear not.
Art
Color-Branding Politics
Two days ago, Americans watched (many via Twitter) Texas State Senator Wendy Davis filibuster the hell out of a proposed bill that would have banned all abortions in the state after 20 weeks and closed all but five of Texas's clinics that currently offer the procedure. Davis stood and spoke without
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Remembering Iran's Fight for Democracy in Brooklyn
There was a time, some four years ago, when Iran held the world's attention. Protests began there in June 2009, after the reelection of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in what many claimed was a rigged vote. A graphic video of the death of a young woman named Neda Agha-Soltan, who was shot by a member
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This Museum Kills Fascists
OKLAHOMA CITY — Is this land really made for you and me? That was the original tone of doubt at the end of Woody Guthrie's classic folk anthem "This Land Is Your Land," and now anyone can see its original lyrics exhibited below a halo of illuminated guitars in the new Woody Guthrie Center.
Art
A Landmark Modernist House Needs a Home
A small house that once heralded the arrival of Le Corbusier–style architecture in the United States needs a home, but its potential new neighbors aren't terribly keen on the structure's stark modernism.
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Disrupt NSA Surveillance With This Typeface
As a reaction to government surveillance, the ZXX typeface is embedded with disruptive designs that are meant to combat optical character recognition processes. The four options for online communications camouflage — called XED, Noise, False, and Camo — each have characteristics that keep them legib
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Interview
AbEx Redux: The Clyfford Still You May Not Know
Best known as the man responsible for the massive Mark Rothko: The Works on Canvas: A Catalogue Raisonné, British art historian David Anfam has more recently been focusing on another mid-20th-century American artist, Clyfford Still, whose flame-like works that have their own luminosity. "You can tur
Opinion
A Map, Not a Territory: Apple and the End of Skeuomorphism
In an influential special issue of Scientific American appearing in 1991, the computer scientist Mark Weiser wrote of the challenges in integrating computers to “the natural human environment” such that they “vanish into the background.” Though not quite a theory of user interface design, Weiser’s n
Opinion
Is That Your Cat on the Caro Sculpture?
We're instinctively taught not to touch the art by stern museum guards and gallery attendants that drill into you the idea that it is untouchable, literally, but imagine my surprise when I visited the home of New York critic and curator Karen Wilkin and saw her cats really loving her sculpture colle
Art
Gleaning the Fields of Memory to Create Form
Upon entering 287 Spring to see Not Past: Old Toys and Lost Friends, a solo exhibition by artist Brian Fernandes-Halloran. one is confronted with two sculptural re-creations of toys the artist remembers playing with when he was growing up, a truck and a red hammer. Fernandes-Halloran’s work is compo