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If You Hate Your Children and Love Art, Dress Them Like This for Halloween
It's that time of year again and this is our warning not to (or are we encouraging you?) dress your children like you hate them but love art. Here are a few ideas.
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The Kamikaze, The Temptress, The Manipulator, The Guru and Other Asian-American Stereotypes
Marvels & Monsters and Alt.Comics, the current tag team exhibition at Museum of Chinese in America, offers a one-two punch that unmasks the American comic book industry’s often conflicted relationship with Asians and Asian-Americans.
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Memoto Makes Lifecasting Way Easier Than Instagram
Want to join the millions of people already broadcasting their breakfasts, pets, and street-art finds on Instagram but don't want to mess with your iPhone? A new clip-on camera from the Swedish company Memoto makes lifecasting (or "lifelogging," as they refer to it) as easy as getting dressed in the
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Fluxus for the Linux Generation
New York is a city awash in information. If your body was a receiver can you imagine how overwhelmed by senseless Facebook updates and spam mail it would be? It goes without saying that the more connected we are the more unavoidable digital reality becomes. This does not exclude the white walls of t
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor recommends a discussion about local government to help with all your political ailments, plus the first ever Chelsea Sound, an art and music festival; a Public Art Fund artist talk; a round table about art writing; avant-garde animation, and more.
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The Fantastic and Revelatory Story of Art and Black LA
On first glance, some may wonder why MoMA PS1, a New York contemporary art museum, has just opened a historical exhibition of art from Los Angeles. But as MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey explained at the press preview last week, the show in question, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, a
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Experiencing Emily Noelle Lambert's Personal Creative World
Sitting on one of Emily Noelle Lambert's free-form, functional sculptures and surrounded by other found wood sculptures, huge canvases, and smaller paintings tucked around her Heart Heat exhibition at Lu Magnus, I had the distinct feeling that I entered into the artist's personal world, a place wher
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Painting for Bollywood
PUNE, INDIA — Last summer I was offered an interesting project by a good friend, film director Sachin Kundalkar. He was about to start shooting his Hindi film Aiyyaa and asked me to create paintings for the movie. Kundalkar is a brilliant storyteller and director, and before this major Bollywood pro
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Revisiting the Radical Energy of 1968
Currently on view at the Oakland Museum of California is The 1968 Exhibit, which focuses on the culture of that unforgettable year. Organized by the Minnesota History Center, the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum, this expansive show explores the tumultuous y
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Dreaming in Argentina When Juan Perón Was President
There are a many reasons to go see Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, curated by Mia Freeman, at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Yves Klein leaps into the void and Lyndon Johnson’s nose grows long and pointed (would that this would happen to all politicians who lie to their constit
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The Four Horsemen of a New Detroit
DETROIT — Detroit faces the best/worst of times. It teems with inventive artists and entrepreneurs whose work and presence generate solid philanthropy and investment. At the same time, increasingly severe budget cuts are hitting schools, police, firefighters and transportation systems hard; poverty
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Playful, Sinister, and Simple Ceramics
Just north of UC Berkeley's campus, hidden away in a small patch of woods, is the Berkeley Art Center, currently showing the exhibition Local Treasures: Bay Area Ceramics. Wanting to know more about the Bay Area's art scene — craft included — I felt compelled to visit. The beautiful, small building