Opinion
Is Flickr's New App an Instagram Killer?
I was working on this review of Flickr's new smartphone app when the online world started to grumble about Instagram and some matters that should concern us all.
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artnet's '80s Graffiti Sale Showcases First Wave Leaders of the Global Movement
Keith Haring, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Richard Hambleton, Lee Quinones, Kenny Scharf, Futura 2000, CRASH, Taki 183, and other leaders of the first wave of international street art and graffiti stars are included in this week's '80s Graffiti Sale [http://awe.sm/jC2JR] by artnet Auctions.
Opinion
Scripted Gallerina Show Coming to E!
If the debut of Bravo's reality TV show Gallery Girls this fall wasn't enough indication that art is maybe really finally going mainstream — at least on TV — then try this: E! is working on a scripted drama called Gallerina.
Art
Sympathy for the Devil
Claudia Joskowicz is the master of the tracking shot. In her video "Music to Watch Dead Girls By" (2006), the camera moves seamlessly for 20 minutes through an endless interior, entering into and departing from rooms, discovering and leaving dead girls in its wake. In her next series, the camera mov
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Inflatable Dictators, Cardboard Robots, and Other Interventions in the Chilean Street
SANTIAGO, Chile — The name of the first urban intervention festival in Santiago de Chile, “Hecho en Casa” (“Homemade”), simply comes from the mission of the activities: the aspiration to create a festival for people in downtown Santiago, to make them feel that the streets are their home.
Comics
How an Art Star Is Born?
Some things aren't what you'd expect in the art world …
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Required Reading
This week, artists on Facebook, where children sleep, Oscar Niemeyer's architectural legacy, tax reform and arts giving, Canada's crowd-sourced art prize, how a Brit learned to speak American, some parallels between malls and wars, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Apocalypto
If the Mayan calendar has it right, this is the last Weekend Words before the end of the world. Nice knowing you.
Art
Out of the Box: Al Loving's Great Achievement
Al Loving (1935–2005) was born in Detroit and studied art at the University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana and the University of Michigan. Like many art students then and now, he kept up with what was going on in New York through art magazines. In 1968, when he moved to New York City, he was fully
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Risky Business: Keltie Ferris' Collisions of Improvisation and Decay
At some point while I was walking around the spacious exhibition space of Mitchell-Innes & Nash, it struck me that Keltie Ferris’s paintings no longer seemed to be making obvious allusions to Joan Mitchell, Frank Stella and Piet Mondrian. This may have been due to the order in which I looked at the
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Falling in Love with One-Half of a Painting
It was there, hanging on my wall and I loved it. I had, so many times, seen this painting on my grandmother’s wall, and had heard her say how she had loved working with and talking about art with the artist, Robert Vonnoh. It was a smallish painting of a bridge and a fisherman, faintly perceptible a
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What Makes a Blockbuster?
After a plate of lukewarm gemelli in the Metropolitan Museum cafeteria, an out-of-town friend and I wandered haphazardly into the lower level of the Lehman wing, where the exhibition Bernini: Sculpting in Clay has been in residence since early October. The show, which consists primarily of terra-cot