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Even before the current documentary about him was out in theaters, Ai Weiwei had become the poster child for China's repression of dissenting artists. But Der Spiegel has a profile of 30-year-old Zhao Zhao, a former assistant of Ai's and an artist in his own right who's been facing increased pressur
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Facebook is building an extension of its campus in Silicon Valley, and, in a signal that it it is a Company to Be Taken Seriously, it has tapped renowned architect Frank Gehry to design the new building.
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Milton Glaser's "I Love New York" logo is one of, if not the most, classic symbols of the city; tourists can find it emblazoned on T-shirts sold at street vendors all around town. But visitors passing through these days might see a version of the I Love New York T-shirt that they weren't quite expec
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A researcher at Washington State University has used Google hits as an indicator of an artist's fame in a study measuring the factors that influence sales at auction.
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If you thought Spain's Eskimo Jesus was the only controversial art story happening these days, think again: artist Taras Polataiko has taken it upon himself to realize the fairy tale classic Sleeping Beauty at the National Art Museum of Ukraine. The gist of the performance is: Polataiko dresses "bea
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Not only does the internet love Cecilia Gimenez and her Beast Jesus restoration job — so do real life, flesh-and-blood people! Apparently hundreds of tourists have begun making pilgrimages to see the work and take pictures with it, after the apparently well-intentioned octogenarian Eskimo-fied Elías
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The caper of the octogenarian restorer continues! And it keeps getting better and better … we'll call this episode: The Priest Knew!
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Well, here's a conundrum you don't face everyday: famed art collector Charles Saatchi wants to donate his collection of contemporary work to his home country, the UK, but they don't seem to want it. (First-world problems!)
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Some of us are really excited about the Public Art Fund's upcoming project Discovering Columbus, for which Japanese artist Tatzu Nishi will construct a living room around the statue of Christopher Columbus in Columbus Circle. A living room six stories above the street, mind you, bringing visitors no
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Picasso is renowned and celebrated for his paintings, prints, sculptures, ceramics and even stage designs. But it turns out that Picasso also wrote — two plays and hundreds of poems, to be exact, mostly during the 1940s and '50s.
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A year ago, Fast Company checked in on Instagram, the immensely popular photo-sharing app, nine months after its launch and called its growth "staggering." That was before Facebook acquired it, this past April, and then, in May, Instagram hit the 50 million users mark. The lesson here? People really
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Politico has excerpts from an upcoming Mitt Romney interview in Fortune magazine, in which the Republican presidential candidate expounds on his plan to shrink the federal government and reduce spending. Depressingly, but not surprisingly, he targets arts funding.