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10th C. Cambodian Sculpture Seized from Sotheby's in NY
Yesterday, federal agents in New York moved to seize a thousand-year-old statue from Sotheby’s that a civil complaints is alleging was stolen from a Cambodian temple.
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A Three-Month College Sitcom on Facebook
LOS ANGELES —London/LA-based artist Ed Fornieles has created a new Facebook-based project, Dorm Daze, with 35 characters who acted out a fictitious three months of college, with a series of dramas, like a college basketball star and math geek involved in a drug ring and the unrequited love of two fr
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Video Tribute to Mike Kelley On Sat April 14 in New York
This Saturday, April 14, Electronic Arts Intermix and Dia Art Foundation have jointly organized a 12-hour video tribute to artist Mike Kelley, who passed away on February 1 at his home in South Pasadena, California.
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A New Curatorial Intensive to Launch in Beijing
LOS ANGELES — Independent Curators International is setting up shop in Beijing. Working with the prestigious Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, ICI's first curatorial intensive in China will be focused on the subject of The Museum of the Future?: Curating Institutions.
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Popularizing Contemporary Art in San Salvador
A look at the emerging art scene in San Salvador, El Salvador.
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor recommends the cinematic influences of Cindy Sherman, two Bushwick shows in quirky spaces, some heady stuff about objects as commodity and more. An art show a day keeps the doctor away.
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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: How to Make It Happen (Part 3)
Almost everyone I spoke with — and by "almost everyone," I mean "everyone" — agrees that arts residencies are a great leap forward for one's art career.
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ACT UP Returns to Wall Street With Occupy and Others on April 25
On April 25th, and in honor of its 25th anniversary, AIDS activist group ACT UP (The AIDS Coalition to Unleash Power), joined by organizations ranging from Occupy Wall Street to Visual AIDS to Housingworks as well as other AIDS activist and queer organizations, will be staging a large scale demonstr
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Where Did I See Google's Project Glass Before … MoMA
The project should look quite familiar to anyone who remembers seeing Keiichi Matsuda's "Augmented (hyper) Reality: Augmented City 3D" (2010) at last year's Talk to Me show at MoMA.
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The NY Times Gets a Front Page GIF
This isn't the first animated GIF that has appeared on NYTimes.com but it may be the first to grace the homepage front and center.
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BMW Guggenheim Lab Finds Safety in a More Gentrified Berlin Locale
Last month, we reported on the controversial location of the BMW Guggenheim Lab in Berlin's punkrock/activist/multiculti/graff neighborhood, and now, Spiegel Online reports they've settled on Prenzlauer Berg,
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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: How Residencies Can Help (Part 2)
If you're like most artists I know, you may not have done a residency, or you're wondering if it's even necessary to do one at all anymore. Here are some thoughts.