Opinion
Billionaire Art Fight: Perelman v Gagosian
New York billionaire Ron Perelman is filing for "divorce" from his art mentor/dealer Larry Gagosian and the two A-listers are battling over three art works worth over $25 million.
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Apple’s iPhone 5 and Getting Angry at Planned Obsolescence
At their hyped-as-ever product launch yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone 5, a new version of the classic that’s longer, thinner, and lighter. The new phone is four inches long (adding 176 pixels to the height of the display), has a faster internet connection, and a better processor. So why do I f
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Collaging Street Views
Julien Levesque's "Street Views Patchwork" is an interactive digital collage using layers of Google Street View to create exciting new landscapes.
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Youth on Display at the New Pop-Up TEMP Gallery in Tribeca
Manhattan’s latest (and likely largest) new pop-up art space has just taken up residence in a TriBeCa loft — an unlikely location for such a fresh-faced project. TEMP's inaugural exhibition is "Working on It," a collection of young artists who have energy but lack direction.
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What Divide? A Personal Meditation on the Online vs. IRL Debate
Pandora doesn’t work here in Iceland. Nor does Netflix. The country doesn’t allow either, so my friends and I have all been swapping music and movies instead of streaming them. My friend who gave me the songs I am listening to right now got them through the Bittorrent hub Piratebay. I'm listening to
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World's First Color Films Discovered
After 110 years hidden in a tin at the National Media Museum in Bradford, UK, researchers have discovered what are believed to be the world's oldest color films. Created by cinematic pioneer Edward Raymond Turner, the films date to 1902 and depict the inventor's children, a girl on a swing, and sold
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What Does the CIA Museum Collect?
It turns out that the CIA has its very own object and art museum for your online viewing pleasure. Although the collection is housed in CIA headquarters making it closed to the public, work does appear to travel to other museums and can be viewed anytime online.
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What Does "Outsider Artist" Even Mean?
A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
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A Playful Take on Modernism's Austerities
As a painting major in Albany, New York during the late 1980s, it was easy to sprint a few blocks from the art department over to the Nelson Rockefeller Art Collection to grab some inspiration from museum-quality art. Nostalgia for the collection's treasure trove of modernist work came to mind while
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Volunteer to Host a Protester for Occupy Wall Street's One-Year Anniversary
The Occupy Wall Street Movement, the protest that popularized the now-ubiquitous term "99 percent, began last year on September 17. The events in Zuccotti Park kicked off an international storm of activism, and though the movement has been less visible as of late, the one-year anniversary is quickly
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GO Fort Greene & Clinton Hill: Art and Domesticity
This past weekend, hundreds of Brooklyn artists opened their studios to the public for GO Brooklyn Art, allowing visitors an intimate view of their work and processes. I headed to Fort Greene and Clinton Hill to see the how the neighborhoods' artists, many of whom work out of converted domestic spac
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Imagining A Post-Capitalist Society with Ton Matton
Tom Matton is a rare kind of designer and architect who looks past the commercial life of objects to explore the underlying realities of their existence. And like many adventurous creators, he took a chance. His exploration led him far from the life he knew in The Netherlands, and the growing discom