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The Case of the Vanishing Grossmalerman, Part 2
After a long night of questionably consensual love making with a dead-eyed heavily accented spectre I was awoken by the ship’s steward.
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The Architectural Is Always Political
New York’s East 53rd Street, between Madison and Fifth Avenues, is full of nondescript Manhattan skyscrapers. In the courtyard of one of these clinically clean buildings, however, there are five crumbling, old slabs of concrete covered in graffiti. It’s hard to believe that these blocks, so out of p
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How to Apply to Art School in China
All of these photos come from Shandong, where, according to the People's Daily Online, nearly 10,000 people applied to get into the Shandong University of Art and Design this year.
Opinion
Yoko Ono Offers Impossible Make-Up Tips for Men
Yoko Ono is usually a bit much for me: I find things like smile apps and instruction pieces that tell you to "Make a wish" and "Keep wishing" cloyingly precious. (Maybe I'm just a cranky, cynical New Yorker.) But Ono has a new video called "Make-Up Tips for Men" (made as part of her clothing line fo
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$3 Chinese Bowl Sells for $2 Million
From the sheer amount of amazing Chinese pottery discovered at random tag sales, you'd think front yards were just crawling with thousand-year-old vases. Sotheby's just sold a Chinese bowl from the Northern Song Dynasty for $2.2 million. It was originally bought for a meager $3.
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The Vatican Will Mount a Pavilion Exhibition at the 2013 Venice Biennale
[This post has been corrected, see below for details] Just as Pope Francis begins his tenure at the head of the Catholic Church, the announcement comes that the Vatican will finally have its own pavilion at the Venice Biennale, themed around the Book of Genesis.
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Bring Art and Science Out of Academic Isolation
STEM has been a huge acronym buzz word in education in recent years, standing for the "hard science" pillars of Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, but an initiative led by the Rhode Island School of Design is hoping to turn that into STEAM. Aimed at promoting the national movement of puttin
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The Case of the Vanishing Grossmalerman, Part 1
Well, did I ever have an exciting and downright adventurous Armory week!
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Brooklyn’s New Transfer Gallery Brings Internet Art Into Real Space
Internet art thrives in its native medium — over the past few years, there have been a significant number of online-only galleries, including Bubblebyte, Fach&Asendorf, and Klaus Gallery, that focused exclusively on showing the work of digital artists online. Physical spaces that make the necessary
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Take a Walk in an Eerie Swedish Forest, All on Your iPhone
"We are not supposed to know what happens in the future," states the first character you encounter in Year Walk, an iOS game released last month that pushes the boundaries of what experiences can be created through mobile gaming. More than just a series of puzzles or point-and-click game, Year Walk
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Get Your Abstract Video Art Projected in MoMA’s Lobby
The Museum of Modern Art wants to use your home videos to decorate its storied lobby and atrium for its next PopRally party. The catch? The submissions have to be totally abstract, and just one minute long.
Art
The Controversies of Kara Walker
A photograph of Obama behind a podium hangs below the image of a glaring white cross, aflame. Black-and-white figures taper down the wall unceremoniously, but beautifully balanced amid scuffs and marks. This is a photograph of the artist Kara Walker’s studio wall, and she’s showing us the process by