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Five Artists We Don't Want to Be Our Valentine

Sometimes it's better to be alone. Here are a few artists who we wouldn't particularly like to spend a romantic Valentine's Day with, from the over-sharing to the unstable to the plain unsettling.

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The Activism of Buenos Aires Street Art

Between 1975 and 1983, tens of thousands of people went missing in Argentina's "Dirty War." The exact number of the tortured and murdered in state-sponsored detentions is impossible to determine due to the discreetness of the disappearances and disposal of the bodies. Free speech was nonexistent; th

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San Francisco Bay Bridge Turns into the World's Largest Light Installation

The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is coming alive. Starting March 5, it will light up nightly with 25,000 LEDs strung along its network of support cables, turning into the largest light sculpture in the world. In a preliminary test video of the installation by American artist Leo Vill

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The Seedy Side of the Circus, Documented in Gritty Black and White

In documenting the rough corners of 1970s New York, Jill Freedman brought out with her photography something old-school lurid, like the flashbulb exposures of Weegee and Brassaï in the decades before, always offering a startlingly and very human view on her street subjects. When in 1971 the photogra

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Graphic Design as Political Practice: A Conversation With Metahaven [Part 1]

Metahaven is an Amsterdam-based design studio made up of its two members and founders, Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden. Yet to describe them simply as a design studio seems misleading. The pair uses graphic design, identity branding, and product development as weapons, harnessing the power of t

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Frank Lloyd Wright's Unrealized Skyscraper Dreams

While he achieved the construction of unusual designs for the spiraling nautilus shape of the Guggenheim Museum and the waterfall-spitting Falling Water, Frank Lloyd Wright never really got to build the towering spires of his dreams. One of his skyscraper designs would have dominated the lowlands of

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Istanbul University Responds to Deaccession Controversy with Press Release

The latest news coming out of Istanbul in the story of the impending museum deaccession auction is that the focal point of the controversy, Istanbul Bilgi University, has issued a press release and agreed to a meeting with activists. The university administers the recently closed Santralistanbul Mus

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An Introduction to the Early Web Aesthetics of Geocities

You might know Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as internet artists, or more specifically, as internet archaeologists. The duo have made a practice of plumbing the depths of internet culture, dusting off old memes and spelunking in old corners of the web. The obscure nature of their work makes th

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Making Movement Out of Stillness: Phillip Trager's Architectural Photography

The New York Public Library is asking for quiet with its current exhibition, Echoes of Silence, the first to consider the early works of the architectural photographer Philip Trager — but silence isn’t a word that comes to mind when looking at a Trager photograph. One is drawn instead to the photogr

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Photo Preview: "NYC 1993” at the New Museum

Opening tonight, the New Museum's NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star purports to offer a time capsule, or, as the museum's curator Gary Carrion-Murayari put it, a "form of collective memory" documenting a particular time in a particular art scene, namely, New York City in the '90s.

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What's the Best Way to Show Digital Art, Both Online and Off?

What's the best way to show artwork — both made for the web and not — online? How do we bring net art into the physical space of a gallery? These are two of the questions that curators, artists, and others in the art world are increasingly confronting and most likely will be for a while. Two attempt

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Underrecognized, Bowie’s Glam Drives a Retrospective of 1970s Art

BRIGHTON, UK — For several decades now we have been laboring under the impression David Bowie is a pop star. But a new show at Tate Liverpool puts Bowie where he firmly belongs, as a central figure in art. It proves the pioneering musician is also a muse, a performance artist, and a conceptualist al