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Imagining iMuseums
Inspired by our image-saturated culture, French artist Leo Caillard has reimagined the Louvre as a digital library, while James Elkins has compiled some real stats about how long people actually look at art in museums.
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MoMA Makes Statement By Acquiring Censored Wojnarowicz
The New York Times announced today that the Museum of Modern Art has acquired David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly,” including both the artist-cut 7 minute version and the 13 minute full work. The acquisition pays testament to the work's newfound significance after being censored from the Smithso
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There Are Other Chinese Artists Besides Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei is a media sensation, and that's not a bad thing. The artist’s pioneering works, relentless activism and life-broadcasting on Twitter and other media have turned Ai the artist into Ai the figurehead. His role as a pioneer of contemporary Chinese art in the Western world, taking on landmark
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Rethinking History's Traces in Public Journal 42
Public [http://publicjournal.ca/about.htm] is a Canadian journal founded in 1988 that comes out twice yearly, a compendium of art, design and writing projects centered around a single theme for each issue. Public's latest issue, number 42, is called Traces, and centers around the physical traces his
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Rare Steichen & Stieglitz Autochromes On View at Metropolitan for One Week Only
For the first time in more than 25 years, the Metropolitan Museum of Art will display five of its original Autochromes by Edward Steichen and Alfred Stieglitz for one week only — January 25-30, 2011 — as part of the exhibition Stieglitz, Steichen, Strand.
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This Friday Williamsburg Galleries Stay Open Late
This Friday, January 14, Williamsburg art galleries will be open late for art lovers and fans to crawl through the bodacious borough of Brooklyn's hipster-est neighborhood on earth. Dozens of art galleries and spaces will be open from 6-8pm to ensure that you can wander around and discover new talen
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Ai Weiwei's Shanghai Studio Now Demolished
In Fall of 2010, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei was requested by government officials to vacate his newly built Shanghai studio so that it could be demolished. The weird thing is that the Shanghai city government were the ones to ask Ai to build the studio. Following a blow-out demolition party on Novembe
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Want to See What Jackson Pollock Looked Like in Slo-Mo?
To all those haters who claim they just don’t get Jackson Pollock, or that the painter’s Abstract Expressionist canvases have started to look stale: here’s something to get your attention. A slow-motion video of flung paint shows the real drama behind Pollock’s paintings.
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Swoon's First Community Center Inaugurated in Haiti
Last week, the "first real inauguration of the [Konbit Shelter] community center with workshops and events brought by Ayiti Resurrect and Ayiti Cherie Healing" took place in Bigones, Haiti. Spearheaded by Brooklyn-based artist Swoon, the Konbit Shelter Project was created with the idea that a group
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Museum Files $2 Million Suit Against Photographer for Posting Photos
Photographer Thomas Hawk visited the World Erotic Art Museum in South Beach took photos, he claims he didn't see the no photography sign. Now the South Florida institution filed "fradulent" DMCA notice with Flickr and Yahoo, which owns Flickr, has threatened Hawk's entire account with permanent dele
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Who Needs Bricks When You've Got Pixels?
Production outfit The Third & The Seventh has made a movie that allows us to experience architecture better than ever before, showing iconic buildings in multiple perspectives simultaneously and suffusing them with soft, unearthly light. Viewers would be excused for thinking that these clips were sh
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Global Africa Project Dissects the Idea of Africa
The Museum of Art and Design, New York's The Global Africa Project makes an audacious claim: to present the art, design, architecture, and craft of the contemporary African diaspora. Given that Africa is the world’s second largest continent, with a population of over one billion dispersed among 54 d