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LOS ANGELES — Circles are endemic to the art world. Who you place in your circle — and who places you in theirs — is an act of social currency, particularly important in a world often run by social relations. But circles are also beautiful, forming iconic architecture like the Guggenheim in New York
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LOS ANGELES — For LA's drivers, the city passes by in a blur, a city protected by glass and one's own soundtrack. Every experienced Angeleno has a driving mix, a series of podcasts, and, of course, favorite radio stations, to keep them occupied while scooting (or crawling) around town. LA is often a
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LOS ANGELES — The beautiful thing about photography is that it captures a moment in time, a presence, a place. But what's missing is the sense of direction. Now, there's an app for that.
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LOS ANGELES — In my inbox today, I received word of the Leslie Lohman Museum's new website. It's just one in a series of recent successes for the museum, one of America's most important showcases and collectors of queer art.
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LOS ANGELES — Just a day after I reviewed LACMA's In Wonderland exhibition of surrealist female artists, I came across their new app. Designed by media artist Jody Zellen, Art Swipe starts you off with 16 images from the show. The images are cut in three and arranged with others on the screen, allow
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How do you make your iPhone act more like your SLR? Well, Chicago-based Ben Syverson has an app for that.
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Some cities have clocks, lights that will tell you if it's raining or LED screens that tell you the temperature outside, but this project by artists Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer may be the first to tell people the mood of a city.
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MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th
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It’s a testament to the time in which we live to be able to walk through the brilliant halls of a white-walled, glass ceilinged exhibition hall, quietly perusing couture from one of the masters of modern fashion, Valentino Garavani, all in front of a computer screen.
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The brainchild of Scott Ostler, co-founder of the image-sharing site Dump.fm, and Khoi Vinh, a former design director of NYTimes.com, Mixel is a free iPad app that may just be a game changer in the world of online images. Sure, we've heard it all before, another service that promises to change it al
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Artist Patrick Smith's Windosill, a Flash-based video game that's playable in your internet browser, is a fascinating work both for its slow, subtle game play and its visual inspirations, namely proto-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's empty landscapes and Philip Guston's still-life paintings.
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Online exhibition space The State has a new show up: Jacob Broms Engblom's “wShare” is a fetishization of those internet moments when we're just caught waiting.