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New Aesthetic Watch: Google Beatbox [UPDATED]
All Your Beatbox Are Belong to Us. I'm not kidding.
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From Car Hoods to Vajazzling
South African artist Frances Goodman doesn't apologize about much when it comes to art.
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Salman Rushdie Says, “Art Is Not Entertainment ... It’s a Revolution”
During last night's Arthur Miller Freedom to Write event, writer Salman Rushie talked about the fact that censorship exists to change the subject. When it is introduced in the realm of art, it becomes the subject; the attack onto the work becomes the work. As Rushdie said, “Assumptions of guilt repl
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Is Marina Abramović Trying to Create a Performance Art Utopia?
Nearly 150 people gathered in MoMA PS1's performance dome this morning to hear Marina Abramović present plans for her new museum dedicated to performance art in Hudson, NY. As the crowd took their places on and around the oversize red ottomans filling the space, people gazed at and stuck their heads
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Frieze Frame on Randall's Island
The massive Frieze art fair landed on Manhattan's Randall's Island and not everyone was happy. Pro-union protestors and members of Occupy Museums showed up to protest but they were pushed so far away that you have to wonder if anyone noticed.
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At the 2012 Pulse Art Fair in New York
Relocating its New York edition from Armory Week to join Frieze Weekend, the 2012 Pulse Art Fair offered itself as an accessible companion to the bigger fair action on Randall's Island, both in terms of location and the art presented.
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A Street Photographer for the 21st Century
The content of Strauss’s individual photographs is not always disturbing, but paging through the entirety of 10 Years means talking a walk through neighborhoods and into situations that you might otherwise avoid.
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“Writing with Scissors”: Graham Rawle’s Woman’s World
Last month, the UK-based novelist Graham Rawle gave a lecture at Antenna Media Centre in Nottingham called “Writing with Scissors.” Writing with scissors — a synonymous phrase for textual collage — would seem to aptly describe the compositional process of Woman’s World, Rawle’s handsomely designed a
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Required Reading
This week, occupy design, Seven on Seven, Mr. Brainwash copyright case, brutalism's savior, literary New York, Damien Hirst in London and more.
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A Bird’s-Eye View of Heaven
By all accounts, Pearl Blauvelt (1893–1987) was a recluse who lived in northeastern Pennsylvania in a house without running water, plumbing or central heating. Her neighbors referred to her as the “Village Witch.” In the mid 1950s, she was declared incompetent and moved to a facility where she resid
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What You’d Least Expect on the Lower East Side
The reemergence of Pocket Utopia — not in Bushwick but on the southernmost lip of Manhattan’s Lower East Side — in partnership with the uptown fine prints and drawings dealer C. G. Boerner, might strike some as an offbeat, even aberrant choice. But having gotten to know Austin somewhat after writing