Opinion
A Transcendental Look at Humanity Through Social Media
Go to vinepeek.com. Spend five minutes watching it without tearing up, feeling overwhelmed by humanity's vastness, and becoming totally addicted. I dare you.
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Beijing Bike-Sculpture Filters the City's Pollution
Matt Hope, a Beijing-based artist, is taking his adopted city's problems head on. Instead of hiding in his apartment and dealing with Beijing's extreme pollution crisis with the help of air filters and masks, Hope is hitting the streets with a bicycle-cum-sculpture that actively filters the air arou
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Google Maps Reveals North Korea to the Web
It happened in a surprising instant: North Korea became just a little bit more accessible. Google Maps now features data on the secretive country, with the names of streets and buildings labeled, plus some more sensitive information.
Art
False Appearances Mask Hidden Truths
When you first enter Parker’s Box, you'll find a clear aisle in front of you but to the right, a giant construction blocking your way. The size of the piece is imposing size, but its material is puny — one of the most lightweight and disregarded objects imaginable, plastic drinking straws. The work
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Vine Is the Latest, Greatest Form of Web Kitsch
By now you may have heard of Vine. If you're on Twitter at all, you've definitely heard of and/or seen it. You may not have actually used Vine, but you probably will soon — it's the newest multimedia format to hit social networks, a more complicated version of a GIF or a simplified version of a home
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Library Discovers Hundreds of Hidden William Blake Engravings in Its Collection
Last week, a library in Manchester announced an incredible find: the institution holds hundreds of engravings by poet and artist William Blake that it didn't know it had.
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The Guggenheim's Spiral, 13 Stories Taller
The Athens-based architecture practice Oiio Architecture Office has offered up a riff on an icon — they've taken Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum and mutated it, adding 13 more floors onto the structure's famous spiral.
Opinion
Georg Baselitz Is a Sexist Grump
Women, ladies, girls, however you identify — if you've got two X chromosomes, I'm talking to you, and I have an unfortunate announcement: You can't paint. At least not well. So if you're thinking about becoming a painter, don't do it; you'll never be any good. If you already are one, I'm sorry; you
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The Majority of Timbuktu's Medieval Manuscripts Are Safe
On Monday, Hyperallergic reported that Islamist rebels set fire to two historic libraries in the Malian city of Timbuktu (a UNESCO world heritage site), just as French forces and the Malian army pushed them out. The rebels may have destroyed 2,000 of the Ahmed Baba Institute's volumes of medieval-er
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Reviving the Rockaway Boardwalk, Post-Sandy
In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Rockaway Beach's iconic boardwalk is all but destroyed. "It's sheer devastation," said Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski. The remains of the structure between Beach 110th Street and Beach 88th Street is a wreckage of concrete frames and sheets of wood
Art
Online Art Galleries Go Indie
Lately, the art world has been awash in technology-driven art start-ups, including well-funded ventures like 20x200, Artsy, and Artspace that dominate headlines by providing access to buying (or at least window shopping) art to a wider audience than blue-chip collectors. Making the gallery experienc
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Whitewashing Judith Supine
Last November, I was delighted to find this lovely work by Judith Supine on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn … and then it was gone.