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Was gonna do this outside, but it was raining. Oh well, you wouldn't have seen it AFK anyway.
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Organizing the World
This brief essay will focus on something that I think is important to Tumblr — the need to negotiate with media already in circulation. It is a desire that has been expressed variously throughout the 20th century by other artists and writers who negotiated, or thought about how to negotiate, with a
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Our Reblogs, Ourselves
For centuries, images were a fairly quantifiable, classifiable thing. One could, if one wanted, generally divide them into two categories: those made by artists and those not; artworks and everything else. There were always complications, of course — where did photojournalism fall, or works made by
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Could Two Major LA Museums Be Merging?
Two of the biggest art museums in California may soon become one. According to the Los Angeles Times, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has made a proposal to acquire the Museum of Contemporary Art, a smaller institution that has lately been unstable with mounting budget problems and controversy
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The Measure Of Success: Making Art in the “Like” Economy
One of the unique things about the internet is that it’s a quantifiable space. Every action that takes place online is basically an exchange of data, codified in ones and zeroes. Everything you do on the web is increasingly measurable and trackable, which is one of the reasons we’ve come to live in
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Miami Pastor Indicted after Sending Fake Damien Hirst Paintings to Sotheby's
Damien Hirst’s Spot and Spin series of paintings might look like endless repetitions of the same thing, but, unfortunately for one Miami pastor, it’s still possible to tell a real from a fake. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance has indicted Kevin Sutherland on charges of attempted grand larceny
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Photographer Races Against Time to Document the Homes of Mid-Century Designers
The private homes of mid-century creators are vanishing. As most architects, designers, and artists who worked in the modern design movements of the 1950s and '60s are reaching their twilight years or have already passed on, the houses in which they explored their personal visions are often broken u
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Expand Your Creative Arsenal with a Monthly Subscription of New Art Supplies
Launched last month by EatSleepDraw, a lively online art gallery of user-submitted content, ArtSnacks is a new subscription delivery service of five curated art products for artists to sample each month, delivered in a special, hand-wrapped package that's sure to inspire bursts of creativity.
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Making the Personal Collective at the Kochi-Muziris Biennale, Part 2
KOCHI, India — Pepper House is a quaint colonial structure with a lush central courtyard on the Kochi seafront, and serves as a major Biennale venue with some extraordinary displays — Alex Mathew’s monumental anchor rising upward in a surreal bid to touch the sky overhead greets you as you walk in.
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The Problem with Tumblr and Photography
A little over ten years ago, when I started blogging about photography, most photoblogs were presenting a single photographer’s work, one photograph at a time, usually per day. They were maintained by the photographers themselves. The scene was very small, and there was maybe a slightly naive earnes
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On Coffee Houses, Salons, and the Post Arts
So back in the late 15th century, Ottoman people started gathering to drink together. The beverage they consumed? The magical elixir and arguably the greatest drink known to humanity, coffee.
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The United States of Armory
Every year, the Armory Show art fair chooses an area of the globe to zoom in on for its Focus section, a curated selection of mostly emerging galleries that often includes some of the fair’s chief highlights and surprises. For 2013, the Armory’s Focus section takes on its own home base, the United S