Art
Paper People and Rude Shocks
Some shows are designed to shock, and you’d expect that one sporting the title Extra Fucking Ordinary would be among them. And you’d be right.
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Art
Want To See the Future of Sundance? Checkout the Abandoned Lumberyard
PARK CITY, Utah — Behind the shopping plaza location of the press-and-industry screening hub known as the Holiday Village Cinemas and tucked behind the celebrity favorite restaurant Blind Dog stands Park City's shuttered Anderson's Lumberyard. Recently remade by local businessman Mark Fisher as a mu
Opinion
All Aboard the Foursquare Express
LOS ANGELES — We "check in" on Foursquare much like we "check in" on flights, so why not display our Foursquare activity in classic airline style?
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Two Kickstarter Projects Raise $1 Million
LOS ANGELES —Yesterday, the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, made news when two of their projects raised over $1 million!
Opinion
Zippy Abstracted Faces Replace Dull Avatars
This progressive tech company is jettisoning the generic avatar in favor of a zippy new abstracted face.
Opinion
Syrian Dictator Seeking Work... on Craigslist?
LOS ANGELES — If you log into the jobs board in Craigslist Reno, you might come across a strange posting: “Dictator Seeks New Job!” Log into Craigslist Istanbul and you’ll notice another one: “President of Syria Seeks Employment!”
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A View from the Easel, Part 4
CHICAGO — The fourth installment of a series in which artists send me a photo and a description of their workspace.
Opinion
American Pop Culture Meets... Everyone Else
LOS ANGELES — I’m not a fan of the word “Third World” (third world to what?) but I am a fan of pop culture, and I’m fascinated by how American pop culture has intersected with all sorts of countries, rich and poor alike. So when I stumbled across a new tumblelog called Pop Culture and the Third Worl
Art
Art Rx
This week's prescription includes a couple of group shows to booster your immunity, an exhibition of indie music videos that will soothe your soul, a show by an artist into drawing little girls, a fashion week intervention, a Valentine’s Day-related show and a social media art panel that will make y
News
Space, Play, Form and Distortion
Walking through the Lower East Side this morning, I couldn’t help but revisit a lingering thought I have had about the reemergence of a loose trend in today’s young contemporary art: formalism.
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The Avant/Garde Diaries
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/8794/9727/0/2ea185ff80df433f854a9aeeb1d73c47/0/0/0/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. In each digital portrait, featured diarists are
Opinion
Mitt Romney Wants to Cut Already Measly Funding For the Arts
Today’s shocker: A Republican Who Wants to Cut Arts Funding! GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney has penned an Op-Ed for the USA Today newspaper that takes aim at the battered National Endowment for the Arts.