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Picasso and Chicago
CHICAGO — Sometimes it almost seems that at any time of the year, at some place in the world, there is a show of Picasso’s work on display somewhere.
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Reject Reality and Substitute Your Own: Using Augmented Reality as Art
Whether you like it or not, the digital invasion of Google Glasses is on its way, bringing the alternate world of augmented reality with it. As the late sci-fi author Philip K. Dick, who I really wish was here to react to the rapidly cyborg-like technology advances, forebodes in his 1978 essay "How
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Death of the Living Theatre, Vanguard of Downtown Avant Garde Loses Its LES Space
The Lower East Side is getting a little less weird, losing not only one of its last stalwarts of experimental performance arts, but one of its most prolific supporters as well. The Living Theatre is closing its Clinton Street location after falling behind on rent, and founder and theater maven Judit
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Turn GIFs into Glitch Art
With the launching of Vine and the increasing ease of shooting portable video, you might be a little tired of the GIF. It’s so short! So looping! There’s no sound! Fortunately, Tim Baker and Chris Shier have come up with a way to freshen up your GIFs — by melting them.
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The Visual Memory of Ai Weiwei's Survey at the Hirshhorn Museum
Ai Weiwei's survey at the Hirshhorn Museum in Washington, DC ended this past Sunday, and on that last day clusters of visitors gathered around each piece with camera phones out in documentation, especially at the end piece "Cube Light." The highly photogenic glimmering box of glass crystals from his
Opinion
Art21 Exclusive Video: The Heroines of Margaret Kilgallen
This Art21 video of Margaret Kilgallen is particularly special because it features some previously unheard interview footage with the late painter.
Opinion
Two Overexposed Cultural Figures Get Just a Little More Overexposed
Think of the most overexposed figures in creative culture. I’ll give you a few hints: One stared at people for months straight in a major museum, had an opera made about her life, and is creating a museum devoted to her chosen medium. The other has turned his life into performance art, dabbled as a
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The Obsessive and Strange Storytelling of the American Visionary Art Museum
All visitors to the American Visionary Art Museum get their hands stamped with a singe gazing blue eye, the logo for the museum that focuses on self-taught artists who use their work as an avenue for their personal vision. But while it's an institution devoted to the inner voice, the museum is hardl
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Museum as Tool: Directors on How They Run Their Art Institutions
SAVANNAH, Georgia — Curators organize groups of art objects into exhibitions. Might it be said that museum directors organize groups of exhibitions into an identity or an institution? The highlight of Savannah College of Art and Design’s deFINE Art conference last week came for me in the form of a p
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Manufactured Dreams — Stepping Inside Televisa
The Aperture Foundation publishes beautiful photography monographs that are designed to look more like a portfolio than a book; such is their emphasis on image plates over explanatory text. The Factory of Dreams: Inside Televisa Studios, one of Aperture’s recent publications featuring the Brooklyn-b
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Art Rx
Happy almost March! In celebration of the new month, the doctor's got lots of great stuff for you this week — a wide range of artistic medicines to remedy and relieve any ailments you might have.
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Irving Harper, a Mid-Century Designer Whose Playful Paper Art Deserves A Look
You've probably seen Irving Harper's work even if you don't know his name. His "Ball Clock" made for the Howard Miller Clock Company is an icon of mid-century Atomic Age design; his Marshmallow Sofa, created in the 1950s/60s for Herman Miller, is a continuously popular and curious piece of furniture