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WTF Is Google+? An Artist's Handbook
Community is enough to make Google+ worth a whirl, but what exactly does the site provide for artists? Conversely, what is it missing? A few initial thoughts based on a week’s worth of use.
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Taking a Bite of Lucky Peach: The Art of Food
It only takes one look at the cover of the debut issue of Lucky Peach to realize that this isn’t your typical food ‘zine. No glossy photo of an impeccably styled dish here; instead, there’s a dead chicken being held unceremoniously upside down by its feet, its pale,
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Grant v. Lee: The Battle Continues
150 years after the conflict began, the Civil War provides the subject matter for a group show at the Good Children Gallery in New Orleans. But far from being a mere exercise in nostalgia,"Grant v. Lee", curated by Sophie Lvoff, gave artists the opportunity to "gently and subtly evoke the times and
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Walking Statues: Looking at Menswear as Sculpture
The boys had their turn traipsing down the runways of Paris and Milan last month for the major fashion houses’ offerings at the Spring 2012 Menswear collections. And the more one looks at the clothes, the more they can be seen in relation to another medium: sculpture.
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Dear Photograph: Analog Meets Digital Meets Nostalgia
The idea behind "Dear Photograph" is simple: "Take a picture of a picture from the past in the present." But the results are anything but.
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Projecting Female Identities
Following the passage of the same-sex marriage bill in New York and a recent weekend of LGBT pride, it just felt right to attend curator Bradford Nordeen’s “Dirty Looks.” The series is a monthly platform for experimental queer film and video that Nordeen affectionately describes as “roaming”—June’s
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Here's Looking at You, Kyle McDonald
In a project that was either a canny statement about surveillance and consumer culture or just plain creepy [http://theatlantic.tumblr.com/post/7302392496/file-this-art-project-under-things-that-are-creepy], artist Kyle Macdonald staged a "photographic intervention" on public computers in Apple stor
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Capitalist Realism or Poverty Porn?
For more than three decades, Shelby Lee Adams has photographed families living the Appalachian hollers of Kentucky. Adams sees himself as a documentarian and observing participant in the communities he works in, developing close friendships with his subjects and allowing them to shape his photograph
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Shocker of the Day: Qatar World's Biggest Contemporary Art Buyer
You may know Qatar as the home of Al Jazeera but this small kingdom in the Persian Gulf is proving itself a major contemporary art buyer, according to the Art Newspaper.
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Videos by Dave Greber: Life, The Universe and Everything
New Orleans artist Dave Greber's video work addresses issues of optical phenomena and universal spirituality. It's also a hell of a lot of fun to watch.
Opinion
Missing the Point About "Twitter Art"
Critic Paddy Johnson just penned a column for L Magazine about something she terms "Twitter art," by which she means (I assume) art that uses Twitter. I often enjoy her take on new media but in regards to her treatment of Twitter-related art, I think she misses the mark. Here's why.
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Art from the Developing World: Differently Indifferent
A gallerist at the Armory Art Show recently asked me what it was like to work with artists from developing regions of the world. I didn’t mind this question, but he did it while staring down at me with a look of pity, which felt like a condescending pat on the head.