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Happy Public Domain Day!
Continuing a tradition we began last year, we'd like to wish you not just Happy New Year today, but also Happy Public Domain Day!
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Happy Public Domain Day!
Continuing a tradition we began last year, we'd like to wish you not just Happy New Year today, but also Happy Public Domain Day!
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Chinese Pirate Architects Copycat Zaha Hadid's New Complex
In Chinese, there's a contemporary slang term, shanzhai, which refers to imitated or pirated brands or goods like fake purses and DVDs (or even books) that are a little too cheap to be real. Shanzhai culture has gone one step farther with a copy version of architect Zaha Hadid's curvaceous new comme
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Chinese Pirate Architects Copycat Zaha Hadid's New Complex
In Chinese, there's a contemporary slang term, shanzhai, which refers to imitated or pirated brands or goods like fake purses and DVDs (or even books) that are a little too cheap to be real. Shanzhai culture has gone one step farther with a copy version of architect Zaha Hadid's curvaceous new comme
Art
Art Rx
Happy New Year! This is the perfect week to see some art, since all the galleries reopen after New Year's Day, and good exhibitions abound. Catch some before they close, others when they open.
Art
Art Rx
Happy New Year! This is the perfect week to see some art, since all the galleries reopen after New Year's Day, and good exhibitions abound. Catch some before they close, others when they open.
Opinion
A New, Even More Graphic Anti-Islamic Subway Ad
Remember that subway poster that compared Muslims to savages and called for supporting Israel in order to "defeat Jihad"? The group behind that sloganeering, the American Defense Freedom Initiative (AFDI), is back with a second, even more inflammatory ad that the MTA is explicitly disavowing.
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Art Insurance Claims from Sandy May Rise to $500 Million
The damage Hurricane Sandy did to the art world may have been submerged during the holidays, but if there was any single statement to remind us of the disaster, it's this: a Reuters report noting that losses from the storm may reach $500 million.
Opinion
See All the GIFs on Wikipedia
Whether or not you think 2012 was the Year of the GIF, the fact stands pretty certain: the Graphic Interchange Format is all around us. One place where this is readily apparent is Wikipedia, where GIFs are used to illustrate everything from mathematical principles to how to correctly write a Japanes
Art
My Year in Art: A Top 6
I'd like to start with a disclaimer: Top 5, 10, whatever lists make me nervous. They feel so definitive, so set in stone, and that makes me uncomfortable. What happens when my opinions evolve (as they inevitably will), or when I change my mind tomorrow, or if I accidentally forget something?
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All Art Is Relative?
Sometimes it's the small things …
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Required Reading
This week, top 10 lists for 2012, the meaning of middlebrow, Italian church art goes online, the best street art in LA and NYC, and more.