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Radicalize Your Garden with a Noam Chomsky Gnome
Because really, what better way to express affection for your loved ones than by buying them punny, philosophy-related lawn ornaments?
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Shepard Fairey Hawks "Radical Art Supplies" on 'Portlandia'
"You wanna be radical? This is the radical store for you," says Phil (Fred Armisen) of Shocking Art Supplies in a skit from a new episiode of Portlandia that features a guest appearance by street artist and branding guru Shepard Fairey.
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Spain's Art-for-Taxes Program Only Works When the Art's Good
If taxes sound taxing to you, consider this alternative: move to Spain, purchase valuable and culturally significant artworks, and donate them to the Spanish government in lieu of tax. Just make sure they're really significant artworks.
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A Collaboration We Hope Only Lasts 15 Minutes: Andy Warhol and Converse Shoes
Next month, Converse will team up with the Andy Warhol Foundation to create this.
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Someone Broke King Tut's Mask and Glued It Back Together, Badly
What would you do if you accidentally broke one of the world's most valuable relics? Glue it back together? Quickly? Before anyone noticed?
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Miss Your Disposable Camera? There's an App for That
If we’re so fed up with the performativity that accompanies technological advances in photography, why don’t we just trash our iPhones and revert to real Polaroids?
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Street Artist Sues Developer for Using His Mural to Sell Condos
The street artist Craig Anthony Miller is suing the real estate developer Toll Brothers for using a mural he painted in Dumbo, Brooklyn, to market a nearby condo development.
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Luc Tuymans Found Guilty of Plagiarism for Painting Photo of Politician
The painter Luc Tuymans has been convicted of plagiarism over a portrait of the Belgian politician Jean-Marie Dedecker.
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Spain Arrests Three Alleged Art Forgers
Three suspected members of an art forgery ring were arrested in the Spanish cities of Zaragoza and Tarragona, El Pais reported.
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See What the Artworks See
As museumgoers, we’re used to looking at art, but a new project from filmmaker and artist Masashi Kawamura inverses the traditional relationship of viewer to artwork.
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"Painting a Picture" Sexier Than Coding, Study Finds
According to a recent study, artistic creativity is more attractive to potential mates practical creativity.
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As It Prepares to Relocate, Whitney Museum Expands Online Database from 700 to 21,000 Works
Projects like “Exhibition on the Screen” wed the democratization of art with the preservation of its sense of immediacy — and allow those who cannot afford to travel to cities like New York or London, much less live in them, to share in the arts.