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Ever caught yourself thinking about what an art space sounds like rather than what it looks like? Perhaps provoked by artists who use sound as their medium or the cavernous qualities of the space art usually inhabits, Paddy Johnson of ArtFagCity fame has put together an LP [http://www.artfagcity.com
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If you're been anywhere near the Green Line or Museum Street in Boston, you've seen the hulking glass structure perched to the side of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts’ old Beaux-Arts building. Finally, we get a peak inside the new structure thanks to a media preview this past week. Designed by eminen
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I spent my Sunday wandering into the living spaces of Bushwick, searching for art, and there was a lot to find. Though, much of what I found seemed to have woken up at 11:30am to start setting up for the event that technically started at noon. Truly, I didn't mind. Who am I to complain, when I'm spe
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Man Barlett’s “Kin” is located in the main gallery of #TheSocialGraph exhibition at Outpost. It is one half of his work, “Kith and Kin” (2010), which was specially created for the exhibition.
Opinion
In a column for Artnet [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/ai-weiwei-under-arrest11-12-10.asp], veteran art critic and grumbly curmudgeon/cheerleader Charlie Finch responds to Ai Weiwei's recent house arrest with an ultimatum: the art world should stop having anything to do with China.
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Last Friday, the virtual art world became the real one as fellow Twitter followers met one another in reality, Facebook friends shook hands and a certain performance artist crossed the thresholds between digital and analog. During #TheSocialGraph's opening at Outpost in Ridgewood, a growing communit
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For #TheSocialGraph, I proposed a look at the next step in social media — telepresence, which, in its simplest form is a large-scale video chat meant to mimic the presence of someone in the room, and at its most complex can take the form of a roving, camera-enabled robot. Since almost as early as th
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Starting Wednesday, Brooklyn blogger and curator Brent Burket will be curating a three-day YouTube retrospective that mines the insanity of the online video juggernaut to find gems and germs that are sometimes painful to watch but always entertaining. His mission was to present an array of short vid
News
Open Source Gallery [http://open-source-gallery.org/], a storefront art space in South Slope, was damaged in a fire last friday and has been forced to relocate, The L Magazine reports [http://www.thelmagazine.com/TheMeasure/archives/2010/11/15/south-slopes-open-source-gallery-partially-destroyed-in-
Opinion
Kanye West's intermittent tweets about art always make my day, so you can imagine my joy when I saw this tweet pop up in my feed. Click through for further commentary on Mark Rothko.
Interview
Last Saturday, #TheSocialGraph was honored to host the first-ever retrospective of Loren Munk’s popular online video channel, the James Kalm Report. Started as a conceptual performance of sorts, Munk and his alterego, James Kalm, have over the course of four and a half years garnered a cult followin
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If a meteor destroyed all of Queens, we'd probably be pretty freaked out. But might a virtual dragon destroying a virtual city ultimately upset more people? In an article entitled “Cataclysm Coming...” author Tom Chatfield explores what the update means [http://www.boingboing.net/2010/11/05/cataclys