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Can artists use the large amount of raw-data and new programmatic tools to represent information more clearly and passionately than scientists can?
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My Chuck Close Problem
When one of the world’s richest living artists orders you to stop making art, you do it. Or do you? That is what Chuck Close has done to me. In response, I have developed a 100-year plan that will allow my digital art to outlive any threats of legal action.
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The Avant/Garde Diaries: "Jonathan Jones & Cockatoo Island – Dialogue for the Future"
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/9990/19239/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/31259/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. The Avant/Garde Diaries's most recent entry
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Bucking the Trend, Illinois Cuts Arts Funding
CHICAGO — On June 30, 2012, Governor Pat Quinn signed into law a state budget that includes a 9.4% cut to funding for the Illinois Arts Council. This was less than feared, but it will undoubtedly have negative implications for cultural organizations, underserved communities, and individuals and orga
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Making an Artistic Life in Northern Michigan
TRAVERSE CITY, Michigan — In the early part of the twentieth century, two emigrants from Armenia named Guleserian and Altoonjian arrived in Petoskey, in northern Michigan, and decided to go into business importing and selling “rugs and other novelty goods” in this remote but prosperous town.
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Robotization of the Internet
I recently stumbled across a video of writer Jon Ronson confronting a Twitter bot that was "stealing" Ronson's personality. The surreal (or is it hyperreal?) video and the subsequent article written by two of those interviewed in the video, Dan O'Hara and Luke Robert Mason, is a fascinating glimpse
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Required Reading
This week, internet access is a human right, new Caravaggios, Mali's historic sites are threatened, challenge to NY's 1971 loft law, Philly's Rodin Museum reopens, artist bequests and more.
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Something Special About Her, Eva Besnyö at the Jeu de Paume
The photographs of Eva Besnyö (1910–2003) are hardly known in America. This fact was made clear to me before my recent trip to Paris, when no one recommended that I go see an exhibition of her work at the Jeu de Paume.
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Single Point Perspective: Cardboard in the Dark
In his Village Voice season preview for fall 2000, Jim Hoberman predicted that the upcoming premiere of the New York Film Festival would be its “most controversial opening night ever — Lars von Trier's love-it-or-loathe-it Björk-scored musical tragedy Dancer in the Dark.”
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Single Point Perspective: Where Does Illusion End and Reality Begin?
There is the American flag, and there is the painting "Flag" (1954–55) by Jasper Johns, which is in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Flying over federal courthouses, churches, schools, post offices, lawns, construction sites and, in the months after 9/11, nearly ever taxi in New
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Single Point Perspective: A New Series
Art and life intersect constantly in an infinitely flexible matrix. Those intersections will be the focus of Single Point Perspective, a new series from Hyperallergic Weekend.
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A Forgotten Piece of Santa Fe Sky
While in Santa Fe for the Currents New Media Festival, artist Jason Varone found an early James Turrell skyspace on the grounds of the Center for Contemporary Arts.