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New Card System Helps You Learn Art History
LOS ANGELES — Masterpiece Cards are a new art learning system from Susan Benford, who heads up the company. Benford developed the cards as a learning tool of those studying art history.
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¬_¬ A New Emojicon Library! ( ˘ ³˘)♥
LOS ANGELES — I don't know about you, but sometimes :) and :( just don't cut it. Happy and sad? That's it? There are so many more human emotions, with nuances between anger and frustration, surprise and elation. Perhaps this is what's behind the hype around emoji for iPhone: finally, a better way to
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Is it Possible to Occupy the Homes of the 1% With Art?
In the Armory Modern section of this year's Armory Art Fair, a work by Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz has taken the typography of wording of Occupy Wall Street signs and printed them as black lettering onto pristine white folding chairs. The effect was immediately disturbing but the artist's exp
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Holy Holy Copy Copy Culture Culture, A Manifesto
Last night's panel event at Storefront for Art and Architecture was a heady affair. A group of panelists, myself include, sat inside the Vito Acconci-designed structure while a 30-foot David sculpture by Serkan Özkaya lay horizontal on a flat bed outside on Kenmare Street.
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USA and the Other
“Wow your accent sounds so amazing,” is a phrase I often hear when people detect my South African accent. Whereas this is usually a compliment — and I accept it graciously — it can also have the effect of creating a distance between me and the other person if they aren't South African. In short, it
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Ritual Blessing Launches Rotterdam Art Center's New Program
It's just another day in the life of the art world and we just learned that New York-based Canadian art legend AA Bronson will be ritually blessing New York/Shanghai/Rotterdam-based Defne Ayas' new program at the Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art in Rotterdam.
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Beat Nite 7: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late, Sat Mar 10 6-10PM
Jason Andrew + Norte Maar present the seventh installment of Beat Nite: Bushwick Art Spaces Stay Open Late [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/9900/10721/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/15836/0]. This bi-annual night, now in it’s fourth year, continues to be an exciting showcase for art i
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The People in the Paintings
The Michael Rosenfeld Gallery’s mission is partly to highlight the achievements of artists who have been historically marginalized in the mainstream art world on the basis of race or gender. Benny Andrews, Alice Neel and Bob Thompson, the gallery’s current exhibition, executes the institution’s obje
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LA's Newest Rock Star Rolls Into Town
LOS ANGELES — When this guy comes to town, he brings with him an entourage of hardhat-wearing men, baleful security officers, news teams and draws crowds of local residents and enthusiastic out-of-towners (including me). A rock star, you say? You bet.
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Yes Men Spoof NYPD, McDonald’s with Stop-and-Frisk Video
Activists/artivists/culture jammers The Yes Men released an ingenious new parody this morning called “Three Strikes, You’re In!”
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Gerhard Richter Movie Opens in NYC Next Week
Next Wednesday, March 14, Gerhard Richter Painting will open at Film Forum in Manhattan's Greenwich Village. The feature length film is the follow up to a 2007 short by filmmaker Corinna Belz called Gerhard Richter’s Window.
Books
New Book Explores Social Media From Many Angles
We all use social media. We tweet, Facebook, tumble and pin away, and some of us even make art on these platforms. Social media have been explored in countless talks and essays, as everyone from sociologists to artists to technologists have come together to explore just why these new media are so in