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Art Is the New Bitcoin, or Something
Last week, the Financial Times Alphaville blog weighed in on the whole "art as an asset/market" thing, joining the series of recent commentaries from Quartz and Felix Salmon on the topic.
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House Committee Seeks to Gut the NEA
In April, President Obama proposed his 2014 fiscal year budget, which, happily for us culture lovers, includes increases of some $15 million each for the National Endowment for the Arts and Humanities. But Obama's proposal was just the first step in a long, winding budget process, and now the Republ
Art
Teaching a Robot to Paint
We're fascinated with robots doing human things, from Elektro chain-smoking its way through the 1939 World's Fair to the Turk automaton that was beating people at chess during the 18th and 19th centuries (there turned out to be a human hiding inside the latter, but still). Now a team at the Universi
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The Masked Man of Honduras Brings Street Art to Its Knees
CHICAGO — A Honduran street artist who goes by the name of Urban Maeztro, a translation of "Urban Master," is covering the walls of the country's capital, Tegucicalpa, with posters of art historical images holding neon weapons.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Indiana, California, Michigan, New York, and Germany.
Art
Two British Painters Use Style as Substance
Patrick Caulfield (1936–2005) and Gary Hume (born 1962) have 34 years between them, and yet their work is similar and compelling enough to warrant a twin retrospective at Tate Britain. Because the Tate has prudently divided the artists — “offering visitors the chance to see the work of two complemen
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New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
Art
The Slippery Slope of Perspective
CHICAGO — Are you a viewer, voyeur, or just a wallflower? These interchangeable labels provide a curious starting point for ways to think about the relationship between the subject and the (art) object in Slippery Slope, a group exhibition at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago.
Opinion
When Street Art Goes Meta
This image, depicting the work of British street artist DS, was briefly on the front page of Reddit earlier this afternoon, and it's tremendous.
Opinion
Things You Could Do Instead of Waiting in Line for the Rain Room
Sure, the Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art sounds cool — but is it really worth waiting in line for 13 hours to see it? That's apparently what some people did this past weekend, says Gothamist, topping the previous high of 12 hours in London.
Art
Trying to Make Galleries Relevant, One JPEG at a Time
Send Me the JPEG at Winkleman Gallery is not a show about art, but about the art world. Its title derives from a new phenomenon wherein collectors forgo viewing art firsthand and instead buy works based on digital photographs alone. Those who still love encountering new art in person worry to what e
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Ghost in the (Chess) Machine
Set sometime in the ’80s, mumblecore maven Andrew Bujalski’s fourth feature, Computer Chess, is an adventurous and peculiar period piece. Chronicling a tournament of computers competing in chess and the programmers who code them, the film endearingly evokes the nascent and heady era before smart pho