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New App Puts SLR Features Into Your iPhone
How do you make your iPhone act more like your SLR? Well, Chicago-based Ben Syverson has an app for that.
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Traumas of a Spotted Lady
Yayoi Kusama seems to reinforce popular notions of the artist who battles with some form of madness.
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The Floating World of One Woman's Camera Diary
Floating around Twitter and Sina Weibo as of late has been my new favorite blog, Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary. Lifted to the web by Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi, the diary features a series of "daily levitations," as Hayashi drifts through the hustle and bustle of her city.
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A View from the Easel, Part 3
CHICAGO — The third installment of a series in which artists (Barbara Rosenthal, Michelle Muldrow, John Tomlinson, Julia Schwartz and Meghann Snow) send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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Is Damien Hirst Lazy?
A spotted judgment pops up on the streets of Paris. And someone goes in stoned (we think) to the Hirst show in LA.
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Jenny Holzer's Cat, Ugly Renaissance Babies and Other Art World Meme Trends
The idea of an art meme feels counterintuitive: art is supposed to reflect deep issues about society and self, or at least be technically complex, while memes are quick hacks about cats, shit people say and dancing Obamas. But this past year, the internet has been seeing a ton of new memes that invo
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W.A.G.E. Searches for a Fair System to Pay Artists, Artists Space to Be Test Case
W.A.G.E. seems to be very clear about positioning themselves in a sphere that is realistic for the creative field and with viable and attainable goals. The question now it seems is how to make a payment system sustainable. An experiment at Artists Space is the first attempt at making that happen.
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Murder Is Weegee's Business
"Everybody ought to go careful in a city like this," Joseph Cotten's character Holly Martins is warned in The Third Man, the classic 1949 film noir that takes place in a war fractured Vienna. The line came into my head while viewing the photographs in Weegee: Murder is My Business at the Internation
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David Hockney Disses Hirst, Now Former Professor Trashes Him
The Brit-gone-LA artist was grabbing headlines earlier this month for his supposed swipe against Damien Hirst but now it's his turn to take criticism from someone who knows his work, a former professor.
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MoMA Opens its Doors to Experimental Print Studio
Yesterday marked the beginning of MoMA’s newest educational program Print/Studio. The printmaking studio and workshop program plans to engage visitors with various processes of printmaking, and it was organized in conjunction with the museum’s upcoming Print/Out exhibition.
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Rezoning Plan Could Grant More Space for Luxury Condos in Greenwich Village
Today in NYC news, the Greenwich Village Historic Preservation Society dropped a press release in our inbox this afternoon on the rezoning of the shuttered St. Vincent's Hospital site on Seventh Avenue between West 12 and 11 Street that could allow luxury condominiums to rise in its place.
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Museums Agree to Curator Time Share
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Detroit Institute of Art (DIA) have made an unusual announcement. Kansas City's Nelson-Atkins will be purchasing 25% of the curator Nii Quarcoopome's time from the DIA.