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Giorgio de Chirico’s Eerie Cityscapes, Scored and Animated

by Claire Voon May 11, 2016May 12, 2016

Tune out from your surroundings courtesy of a strange but poetic video that stitches together 10 paintings by Giorgio de Chirico and introduces subtle animated details to each one.

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In Response to Censorship, Artists Incite Users to Flood Facebook with Nudity

by Claire Voon January 14, 2016

If you’ve ever experienced the frustration of having your Facebook account disabled after posting a nude work of art, mark January 14 as your new favorite holiday: Facebook Nudity Day.

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Facebook Censors Photo of Copenhagen’s Beloved Little Mermaid Statue

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne January 4, 2016January 11, 2016

For more than a century, Edvard Eriksen’s bronze statue of “The Little Mermaid” has perched quietly on a waterside rock in Copenhagen, offending virtually no one.

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New Site Lets You Report Facebook and Other Networks When They Censor Art

by Laura C. Mallonee December 11, 2015December 11, 2015

Nudity in art has been around for thousands of years, but Facebook still can’t take it.

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Why I’m Amassing an Army of Fake Social Media Followers

by Constant Dullaart November 4, 2015November 17, 2015

While wandering across a quiet church square in a small Dutch village, I’m talking on the phone with a journalist from the New York Times.

Posted inOpinion

12 Reasons Why I Can’t Be Facebook Friends with This Artist

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton September 23, 2015October 2, 2015

An artist whose work I loathe recently sent me a “Friend Request” on Facebook.

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This Collaged Facebook Parody Needs Your Data

by Claire Voon August 4, 2015August 4, 2015

Welcome to 2016. Mark Zuckerberg has stolen our data, fleeing Facebook’s offices in Menlo Park with a mysterious, “charismatic hustler” known as Maurice Carbonneau.

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Facebook Rolls Out New, More Gender-Equal “Friends” Icon

by Laura C. Mallonee July 9, 2015

In countries like the United States, inequality between men and women is often reflected in the details.

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Four Years Later, Man Still Fighting Facebook for Censoring Courbet’s “Origin of the World”

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 21, 2015May 21, 2015

It’s been more than four years since French teacher Frédéric Durand-Baïssas, after posting a link to a documentary about Gustave Courbet’s “L’Origine du Monde” (1866) on Facebook, returned to the social network to find the post removed and his profile suspended.

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The Facebook Bug that Many Feared Was Censorship

by Jillian Steinhauer April 30, 2015April 30, 2015

The episode is a scary reminder of just how much we rely on Facebook and just how little control we have over it.

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Painting with 5,000 Facebook Friends in Your Studio

Avatar photo by John Seed July 18, 2014July 22, 2014

LOS ANGELES — Most artists like to think of their studios as private domains: as places where they can wrestle with the problems and possibilities of art making without anyone looking over their shoulder. Mark Dutcher, a Los Angeles painter, has spent the last five years gradually breaking down that privacy.

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The End of Men: “Self-Censorship” on Facebook Edition

by Mostafa Heddaya December 30, 2013December 30, 2013

A new study analyzing 3.9 million English-speaking Facebook users has concluded that 71% of status updates are “self-censored” — that is, modified prior to posting.

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