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The Simpsons' (Excellent) Miyazaki Homage
This week's Simpsons episode contains a minute-and-a-half long homage to the retiring Japanese director Hayao Miyazaki and his Studio Ghibli.
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Tech Blogs Discover Art World, Copyright Soul-Searching Ensues
A delayed furor has erupted in the tech blogosphere over Sotheby's London £3.5 million (~$5.8 million) sale last October of Glenn Brown's "Ornamental Despair (Painting For Ian Curtis) Copied from the Stars Like Dust, 1986 by Chris Foss."
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Walk Like an Octopus
"Octodad: Dadliest Catch" is a new video game coming out early this year that puts the player in the perspective of an octopus masquerading as a human.
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Updating Guerrilla Girls for Net Artists
Chiara Moioli is a 23-year-old artist based in Milan, Italy, and she thought it was time to update the Guerrilla Girls' "The Advantages of Being a Woman Artist" for internet artists like herself.
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Video Game Pits Museum Photographer vs. Security Guard
Recently I considered the question of whether or not viewers should take photographs in art museums. It turns out there's a video game in the works that makes that question an electronic challenge.
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Required Reading
This week, where the fakes are, TED's coming disaster, Ai Weiwei speaks, drinks + politics, African art museum first, design bubble forming, King Tut's erect penis, and more.
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Weekend Words: Smoke
On New Year's Day, pot went legal in Colorado.
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Monuments, Man: Charlie Rose Gets Weird with Richard Serra
For his third-to-last show of 2013, professional interlocutor Charlie Rose brought on lapsed steelworker Richard Serra for a conversation about the artist's ongoing exhibition of new sculptures at the Gagosian Gallery.
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Andres Serrano Shows Us How Not to Help the Homeless
As New York City transitions from a technocrat mayor to a more "populist" one, much recent discussion — at least in the press and among us liberals — has focused on homelessness. Artist Andres Serrano has been thinking about the crisis, too.
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Michelangelo's Grocery List
The great Italian Renaissance artist Michelangelo ate fish and bread like most everybody else.
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Mayor Bloomberg Unveils His Official Portrait
Today, after 12 years, Michael Bloomberg will leave his post as the mayor of New York City. He's left us two gifts: a ban on e-cigs and an official portrait.
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The End of Men: "Self-Censorship" on Facebook Edition
A new study analyzing 3.9 million English-speaking Facebook users has concluded that 71% of status updates are "self-censored" — that is, modified prior to posting.