Opinion
Lego-Scale Architecture Made Large
LOS ANGELES — Brazilian artist Valentino Fialdini, who specializes in architectural photography, has made some works of his own using Lego.
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Art Rx
The weather in nice in New York and there's lots to see. From MFA shows at Hunter & Columbia to a new solo show by Cindy Sherman and an exhibition that responds to the murder of Trayvon Martin so get out of your house or apartment and see art.
Art
My Mother, Me and the Armenian Genocide
Like almost every April 24th I can remember, on Tuesday, the day people commemorate the Armenian Genocide, I sought solace in my thoughts and searched for a way to mark the occasion.
Opinion
A Hundred Flowers Bloom When China Invades
LOS ANGELES — Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom is a photographic series by Los Angeles artist Mei Xian Qiu that imagines the Chinese takeover of America.
Opinion
A Diverse Survey of Gay Men in America
LOS ANGELES — A book by Scott Pasfield explores the diversity of America's gay male community.
Art
Analogue's Last Gasp
Though Micheal Wenyon and Susan Gamble's show A Universe held up for Inspection focuses on displays of holograms and other works, the real raison d'ete of this exhibit is to reveal the frisson erupting over the last gasp of the analogue picture.
Opinion
Posters Distill Philosophy Into Simple Visuals
LOS ANGELES — Designer Genis Carreras attempts to distill complex philosophical topics into clean, minimal posters.
News
New Academic Journal and MIT Center for Arts and Technology to Launch
LOS ANGELES — Lots of srsbsns with the arts and technology in the news lately. What caught my eye was a new Center for Arts, Science and Technology at MIT and a new academic journal, the Journal for Digital Humanities.
Opinion
An App to Rate Everything, and They Mean Everything
LOS ANGELES — We rate our friends. We rate our friends' pictures. We rate our friends' status updates. We rate the restaurants we frequent. We rate the meals we ate. The shows we watched. The books we've read. Why not rate everything? Enter Jot.ly.
Art
An Artist Goes Undercover at a JC Penney Portrait Studio
Studio portraits do not document an event; the making of the photograph is the event. In order to create a series titled Free Sitting, artist Nora Herting got a job as a trade photographer at a portrait studio in a JC Penney department store in Ohio.
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What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?
LOS ANGELES — If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You've just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
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Is Stolen Art Work in Bushwick a Case of False Advertising?
Adam Simon's Steal This Art doesn't really mean it. Too bad the culprit didn't know that.