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LOS ANGELES — We celebrate the innovations of touch screens, which have made computing that much more haptic. But when it comes to interacting with our devices, the use of touch remains remarkably, well, untapped.
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LOS ANGELES —Yesterday, the crowd-funding site, Kickstarter, made news when two of their projects raised over $1 million!
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Walking through the Lower East Side this morning, I couldn’t help but revisit a lingering thought I have had about the reemergence of a loose trend in today’s young contemporary art: formalism.
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This week, students at Denver University's Environmental Law Clinic have taken action to block artist Christo's massive "Over the River" project to be built almost entirely within the federally-protected Arkansas Canyonlands Area of Colorado.
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Today we learn that the nation of Qatar, which is quietly building a very expensive collection of modern and contemporary art, acquired Paul Cézanne's "The Card Players" for the tune of $250 million in 2011.
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According to Business Insider, "[Street] artist David Choe painted the inside of Facebook's first headquarters back in 2005, and Mark Zuckerberg made him an offer: he could be paid a few thousand dollars in cash, or take the same amount in Facebook stock." Choe took the stock and now it's worth $200
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Popular LA-based artist Mike Kelley has died of an apparent suicide. One of the most recognized names of the American contemporary art scene, Kelley is best known for his pop culture-infused sensibility that combined the abject with the everyday.
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Last Friday, January 27, an otherwise uneventful evening of art-gazing was interrupted when Occupy Museums, a subgroup of Occupy Wall Street, made its way to midtown Manhattan to give MoMA visitors a lot more to see than they paid for when the movement infiltrated the institution's atrium.
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This week, the guys over at NYPL Labs launched their Stereogranimator, which promises to revive interest in the 40,000-strong vintage stereograms in their collection.
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Indian artist Navin Thomas recently recieved a bunch of press for winning the SKODA prize for Indian contemporary art. Unfortunately his latest sound installation at Lalit Kala Akademi in New Delhi is garnering attention for an entirely different reason.
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Today, we received the following email response to our request for comment from Alison Klayman, the filmmaker behind the award-winning documentary.
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"Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry" was award the US Documentary Special Jury Prize for Spirit of Defiance at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival and the audience flipped the filmmaker off.