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30 Ft Naked Guy Arriving in New York Today!
We JUST received a photo of Serkan Özkaya's "David (inspired by Michelangelo)" sculpture as it makes its way through New Jersey on its way to downtown Manhattan tonight.
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Did Reaganomics Work for the Art World?
I've noticed a few people credit Reaganomics — or the growing wealth gap — with the boom of the art world, but is that really the case?
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Paranoid Surveillance or Entertaining Voyeurism?
Don't go to Jon Kessler's The Blue Period at Salon 94 Bowery if you don't like to be watched. Actually, if surveillance makes you nervous, you should probably move to the remote landscape of Antarctica, because at least in Kessler's installation the cameras are visible. The thousands of CCTV units t
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Designing the Future
Lebbeus Woods is probably the most famous architect you’ve never heard of. Although, perhaps the word architect is limiting. Since the beginning of his career at a number of highbrow firms in the 1980s the architect, theorist and (I will venture) artist has weaved his off kilter brand of design in a
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Stereotyping People's Stereotypes of the World
LOS ANGELES — Satirical maps have a powerful way of stereotyping the stereotypes people have. Which is why Bulgarian graphic designer Yank Tsvetkov's map designs have a particular bite. His Mapping Stereotypes series claims to be "The Ultimate Bigot's Calendar," with perspectives of Europe and the w
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TED Researcher Unveils Flying Robots
LOS ANGELES — This video has been making the rounds on Twitter amongst TED fans, and I have to write about it and share it with you. The TED Conference, which ran this week in Long Beach, has been the usual "nerd fest," at least from what I've been hearing from attendees.
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What Happened to Charles Atlas?
Wading my way through an opening crowd consisting of a bizarre combination of bearded and flanneled Bushwick hipsters, New York Times critic Roberta Smith and MoMA PS1 curator Klaus Biesenbach at Chelsea gallery Luhring Augustine's new Bushwick location, I was shocked to discover a cold screensaver-
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Detroit Redux
Detroit is a myth. In a twisted, ironic way, the city has become an art-world Shangri-La, a place where artists are discovering — thanks in part to insanely low rents — creative possibilities to remake and reform a large geographic area with public art projects, interventions and community building.
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A View from the Easel, Part 6
CHICAGO — The sixth installment of a series in which artists send me a photo and a description of their workspace. This week, Brooklyn, Portland, London, Baltimore and Ashford, Connecticut.
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New App Lets You Crowdsource the DJ
LOS ANGELES — We all know what it's like. You're at a party, and the music's great, but you wish they'd play a different song. But maybe other people won't like that song. And then someone more vocal jumps in and suggests some other song that's not so great. Okay, maybe it's not that complicated. Bu
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Children of God
“One picture leads to another,” Alec Soth tells the two filmmakers in Somewhere to Disappear (2011), a documentary that follows him around during the last two years that he worked on his photographic book, Broken Manual (2006-11). Later, in the film, he says: “I want to be carried.” Soth yearns for
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Breaking into Prison: Gómez + González Get the Inside Story
The Spanish artists Patricia Gómez and María Jesús González, who exhibit under the moniker Gómez + González, fashion works from the vestiges of soon-to-be-demolished places. In these architectural spaces, they put their training as printmakers to use, creating monoprints of walls and doorways, using