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Pixel Pushers Rejoice, There's a New GIFt Mart in Town!
The Creator's Project blog is looking at the ways people are trying to sell GIFs and other net art online.
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An Artist's 1973 TV Commercial
It's incredible to think that back in 1973 performance artist Chris Burden used a recorded video excerpt of his performance that same year, "Through the Night Softly," to create a 10-second black-and-white spot that was broadcast five times a week for four weeks on KHS-Channel 9 in LA.
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FROM THE PROTEST: Sotheby's Anti-Union Games, Dupes Art Handlers
The Upper East Side is alive today with shouts of "UNION POWER" as Sotheby's art handlers took to the streets to protest a new contract agreement that would drastically jeopardize their benefits.
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NEW Bi-monthly Visual Arts Guide Set to Hit New Orleans
Fans of visual art in the Crescent City should rejoice that there's a new guide in town that will make things a little easier. Multi-disciplinary designer Erik Kiesewetter joined forces with three others to create a free printed bi-monthly gallery guide listing for the visual arts in New Orleans tha
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50 People Get Naked for Art on Wall Street, 3 Get Arrested
Wall Street is a bizarre place. Major investment banks, hedge funds and other members of the world's financial elite tank the world's economy and practically no one gets arrested. Fifty participants in a performance art project by Zefrey Throwell, Ocularpation: Wall Street, get naked and three are a
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Breaking: Julian Schnabel's Abode Fading from "Pompeii Red" to "Venetian Pink"
We haven't been covering the humble home of artist Julian Schnabel, known as Palazzo Chupi, like others [http://ny.curbed.com/tags/palazzo-chupi] have but that's not to say we haven't been gawking at a distance trying to figure out WTF why the hell he made it.
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Unexpected Artistic Wonders in Upstate New York
Lost in a Metro-North commuter train daze, I watched the Wassaic Project pass by the train window without recognizing it. But the giant slingshot and makeshift teepees that decorated the lush green grass next to a towering grain elevator hinted that artists and their ilk may be nearby. Inside, I wou
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A Taste of Beijing's Large New Media Art Triennial
Last night, the National Art Museum of China (中国美术馆) launched Translife (延展生命), their triennial of new media art from around the world. Curated by Zhang Ga (张尕), Translife is divided into four parts and three floors: Sensorium of the Extraordinary, Sublime of the Liminal, Zone of the Impending and,
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Understatement Surrounds City Hall
City Hall Park is an excellent venue for Sol Lewitt’s sculptures. In the white cube, the problem is that the artist’s three dimensional structures can blend in precariously well with the similarly minimal geometric space, camouflaging their distinctiveness from the viewer. It is good to see Lewitt’s
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Required Reading
This week's Required Reading explores the restoration of earthquake-damaged Haitian murals, an archeological mystery in West Asia, the 18th C toilette tradition, Genesis Breyer P-Orridge on pandrogeny, connecting the dots on Mona Lisa, the Banksy app, the year's worst first sentences, cool iPhone ca
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Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Three
On Wednesday evening at 6 pm CST I was standing in a domestic violence shelter introducing my project "Everyone We've Never Met from Memory and Imagination" to a group of about twenty women. They listened politely as I showed them drawings of people like Gene Simmons, Brittany Spears (Snarling, head
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At PizzArte, It Comes Down to the Hands
I understand why the metaphors between art and food work: art is "nourishing" to your soul; a chef is an "artist," his plate the "canvas," and so on and so forth. Unfortunately, these metaphors are such cozy bedfellows that they've all but become cliche. Which is why, when I first heard that a Neapo