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OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I looked at contemporary African photography thanks to a terrific series from Dynamic Africa, one of my new favorite blogs. A great example of Tumblr's possibilities as a site for curation, it is the work of Funke M., a culture curator and observer based in South A
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This week, the price of art, China's rainbow hills, the strengths of the graphic novel, Vermeer's possible secret, the best Vines, and more.
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Not to be outdone by OxfordDictionaries.com, which, as reported by Hyperallergic's Alicia Eler, has selected "selfie" as its new Word of the Year, Weekend Words respectfully centers on the self.
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Kanye West has given a doozy of an interview on NYC’s Power 105 radio station that really makes you wonder how much bigger his ego could possibly be and if he believes his pseudo-revolutionary babble about corporations and creativity. When someone talks about being marginalized for only designing two
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CHICAGO — “You are the future, and you get love by video,” chants artist Jillian Mayer in "I Am Your Grandma," a simple, catchy, one-minute video in which the artist ponders the idea that she will be a grandmother and her grandkids will find this video on YouTube.
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"Art," wrote Leo Tolstoy in an 1886 essay, "begins when one person, with the object of joining another or others to himself in one and the same feeling, expresses that feeling by certain external indications."
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OAKLAND, Calif. — We've all seen the moment in movies when the hero, villain, or unwitting victim has to stare down the barrel of a gun.
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"Largest Exhibition of the Life and Art of Frida Kahlo Makes U.S. Premiere in San Diego," the press release announces. On its website, the show bills itself as "the only exhibition worldwide where Frida Kahlo's paintings can be seen in one place." But in reality, The Complete Frida Kahlo: Her Painti
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I was recently sent an article about the potential of e-books in developing countries. It's one year old, but with the rise of e-books and the growing popularity of Kindles (including on airplanes taking off and landing), it seemed worth revisiting.
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Is it possible that some internet memories are so good that you can almost taste them? Well, Boomf — aka Magic Mallows — is banking on our need to consume memories in more ways than one.
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This week, the Detroit Institute of Arts needs to come up with money, the collector at the center of the Nazi-era art loot, Bob Dylan and Pharrell Williams push buttons, Wikipedia's problems, fact vs. opinion on American cable news, walls around the world, and more.
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In Germany, it was revealed this week, a 1938 law is still on the books that legalized the Nazi seizure of thousands of “degenerate” artworks.