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How to Make Art and Drink It
LOS ANGELES — Like most gallery goers, I enjoy a good glass of wine with my art. And while wine tasting is an art in itself, I never thought the wine could be transformed into art.
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Luckiest Artist in the World Set to Make $200M from Facebook Stock
According to Business Insider, "[Street] artist David Choe painted the inside of Facebook's first headquarters back in 2005, and Mark Zuckerberg made him an offer: he could be paid a few thousand dollars in cash, or take the same amount in Facebook stock." Choe took the stock and now it's worth $200
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Art Rx
This week, our first February prescription has something for those whose masculinity ails them in the form of two shows at the Brooklyn Museum. But don't forget it's Black History month, so we also offer up a healthy dose of African and African-American identity. And finally, the Queens Internationa
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Mike Kelley Dead at 58, Apparent Suicide
Popular LA-based artist Mike Kelley has died of an apparent suicide. One of the most recognized names of the American contemporary art scene, Kelley is best known for his pop culture-infused sensibility that combined the abject with the everyday.
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Can Art Create World Change? 3 Artists at Davos
DAVOS, Switzerland — Does art change the world? The World Economic Forum would have you think so. The WEF is meant to bring important people together to create world change, but how can art participate in the cause?
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Photos from the Art Hack Day Show
A look at some of the unveiling of Art Hack Day at 319 Scholes.
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Live Tweeting the Arts
LOS ANGELES — If some reject the idea that culture can be engaged with through your smartphone, others are finding ways to do exactly that, particularly using Twitter.
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MoMA Returns Occupy Museums Banner, What's Next?
Last Friday, January 27, an otherwise uneventful evening of art-gazing was interrupted when Occupy Museums, a subgroup of Occupy Wall Street, made its way to midtown Manhattan to give MoMA visitors a lot more to see than they paid for when the movement infiltrated the institution's atrium.
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Beach Boys, Artists and Copyright Lawsuits
It’s a cruel world that makes a thief out of an adoring fan. Erik den Breejen is a keen Beach Boys fan and one who knows, now, what the back of a beloved hand feels like.
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Artists Kickstarting Their Own Careers
For Co.Design recently, Bruce Nussbaum reflected on the idea of "indie capitalism," a form of small scale, independent capitalism focused more on makers and communities ...
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In Case it Rains in Heaven
The heart of a society is most open when dealing with death. Its spoken and unspoken fears and hopes, both for life and the afterlife, are embedded in rituals of remembrance and memorial. In China, this has taken the form of detailed objects made of Joss paper that are burned for the deceased.
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NY Public Library Breathes the GIFt of Life Into Old Photos
This week, the guys over at NYPL Labs launched their Stereogranimator, which promises to revive interest in the 40,000-strong vintage stereograms in their collection.