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The World-Famous Architect, A Comic
From the desk of the always brilliant Grant Snider is this clever take on the starchitect.
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Art Project Gauges Emotions of City Dwellers
Some cities have clocks, lights that will tell you if it's raining or LED screens that tell you the temperature outside, but this project by artists Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer may be the first to tell people the mood of a city.
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If Gender Is a Performance, Can't Artistic Importance Be Too?
Attending transgender singer, songwriter and performance artist Mx Justin Vivian Bond's exhibition, The Fall of the House of Whimsy at Participant Inc., I left feeling horribly conflicted, so conflicted that it took me a few weeks to even approach the topic in writing. Even though I originally felt
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Trick or Treat in the Manila Slums
MANILA, Philippines — The film opens casually enough. Children wearing Halloween masks float, or roll, backwards. As we pay attention to the surroundings, we realize we are following the children through the poorest conditions, which shoot past us. Over time, we realize we are on railway tracks, and
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For the Tasteless Millionaire in Your Life
If you have not yet bought a small gift for the tasteless millionaire in your life, I recommend visiting H. Maxwell Fisher's Underground Toy Emporium & Spaceship Parking at Jim Kempner Fine Art. The "emporium" imagined by Randy Regier is an exhibit of the type of cheap toys in flattened colors from
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Performance Artist Censored and Banned on Ustream Because of Doll Nudity
Yesterday, performance artist Amber Hawk Swanson began her latest performance that was to feature the transformation of a life-sized sex doll of her likeness into a small replica of a bull orca at SeaWorld Orlando. Sure, the performance may sound out of the ordinary for veterans of the "there's noth
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Postmodernist Architecture Becomes History
Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.
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People and Their Fish Doppelgängers
People often comment on how people and their pets lookalike but usually they're not talking about fish. In his Evolution series, photographer Ted Sabarese captures carefully composed images of people with the fish they resemble — no, they're not pets. Even though the concept sounds peculiar the resu
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3 iPad Apps Recreate the Museum Experience...Almost
MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th
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Wrapping Up 2011
In the next few weeks we'll be posting our end-of-year reflections but we just wanted to take some time out and thank you, our readers, for helping us make this year our best yet.
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Required Reading
This week, architectural drama, Voina arrests, Gerhard Richter at the Tate Modern, image search tools that will change your life, plagiarism and cartoonists and a chromatic typewriter.
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I Am Underemployed and Underwhelmed
On Saturday I visited Underemployed at Zurcher Studio on Bleecker Street. I read the press release for the show and got excited. First of all, the show is curated by an artist, Josh Blackwell. The premise of the show hinges on Oscar Wilde. His quote from The Decay of Lying: An Observation gives Blac