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After a burst of national outrage over the Prescott School District’s request to “lighten” a mural [http://hyperallergic.com/6887/arizona-school-mural-controversy/] with a large Latino figure, the School District announced at a pro-mural protest last Saturday that they are ok with the current image
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Widely exhibited and praised, the work of the late Tobias Wong forced the design (not to mention contemporary art) world to reconsider art’s relationship to mass commerce and up-to-the-minute pop culture as well as face up to its own Ivory Tower insularity. Some of his objects will live on.
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The Associated Press has disseminated a story that props up its own interests in the Shepard Fairey Obama “Hope” copyright case. Some people are wondering if the news service should’ve filed a story with no real updates except that things are still going well for the AP.
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I had no idea renowned beat poet Allen Ginsberg (1926–1997) was an avid amateur photographer. A current exhibition [http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/2010/ginsberg/index.shtm#] of his black and white snapshots are on display at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, and they are annotated by Gi
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Belgian conceptual artist Jef Geys has been commissioned by the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit to create his latest project titled “Woodward Avenue” on the Detroit street of the same name. It will span almost 30 miles and incorporate local vegetation.
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This is a great day for the Internet: twitter.com/marinaschair [http://twitter.com/marinaschair]
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The Village Voice reports [http://blogs.villagevoice.com/runninscared/archives/2010/05/the_street_pian.php] that New York’s latest public art idea is street pianos. Yes, this summer, America’s Next Top Pianist will be performed in the streets of all five boroughs (map [http://www.streetpianos.com/ny
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Seems like a simple idea, but writer, blogger, academic and artist Sharon Butler has put it into action. She tells us about her latest online project, “Suddenly it struck me: We need a TV channel about painting — so I decided to create one for Two Coats of Paint [http://vimeo.com/channels/twocoats#1
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Yesterday, Barneys installed 20 Eames plywood chairs in one of their world famous Madison Avenue store windows, but what made this display at the department store different was the mashup of high modernist 20th C. design icon with the brash individual style of some of the New York’s most active stre
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This morning, a pioneer of the indy art blogosphere Tyler Green of Modern Art Notes announced - with the help of artist William Powhida - that he will be joining Modern Painters as a columnist and Artinfo as a blogger. But it’s worth noting that this isn’t the only major news announced by Louise Blo
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According to Brokelyn [http://www.brokelyn.com/brooklyn-artists-barter-for-your-next-physical-exam/], one North Brooklyn hospital at the corner of Flushing & Broadway, Woodhull Hospital, is offering artists a means to barter art for healthcare.
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First spotted by the Animal New York [http://animalnewyork.com/2010/05/is-shepard-faireys-legal-mural-illegal] blog, the New York Times [http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/05/04/fairey-mural-gets-thumbs-down-from-buildings-department/] reported that Shepard Fairey’s May Day illegal mural on Hous