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Rethinking How We Source Toys
SAN FRANCISCO — With increasing frequency, it seems, toys from China provoke controversy.
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Digging Into the Layers of the Internet's Past
OAKLAND, Calif. — Digital Archaeology's icon, a pixellated flashlight, captures, in my mind, how the site works: by shining light on different corners, never quite capturing the whole.
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Toward a Slower Internet
OAKLAND, Calif. — Hop on a train or bus in any major city these days and you'll no doubt see people staring at their phones. Where once it might have been a book or an empty gaze, phones have become the object of public transport riders' attentions through games, reading, tweets, emails, and what ha
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Required Reading
This week, Banksy hates the new Freedom Tower, North Korean visions of China, Turkey's ban on the letter "q" is over, Byzantine in DC, a black art show that marginalizes black artists, and more.
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Weekend Words: Dangerous
This week, danger!
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Everything Old Is New Again: GIFs Edition
Wow, digital art man, it's so fresh, like short moving pictures in the Graphics Interchange Format and cyber-self-portraits and the printer that will make a flimsy thing out of plastic just like that.
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How David Byrne Misread the Creatives of Our Time
When I read David Byrne’s recent Creative Time piece on how the 1% dominates the world, or strictly speaking, the art world, and more specifically, New York — the city we live in — it made me collect my experiences, thoughts, hopes, and projections and put them into a script.
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Banksy's Growing NYPD Problem [UPDATE 2]
Today's announcement on Banksy.co.uk points to a larger obstacle that Banksy will be facing going forward with his New York residency, the New York Police Department's draconian anti-graffiti policies.
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Paper Orchard: GIFs Through Collage
Hilary Faye, a Melbourne-based animator and artist, has been making a series of GIFs pulled from materials she's found online and animated through collage.
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Required Reading
This week, artists and gentrification, Sandy's art show backlash, Gitmo's artist/reporter, the war on immigration, brutalism at colleges, genius/tyrant/collector J. Pierpont Morgan, and more.
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Weekend Words: Fault
“Here we are. Here we are. We predicted it. Nobody wanted it to be this way.” said Senator Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, assessing who's at fault for flirting with default.
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Angst and Comics: Daniel Clowes in Chicago
CHICAGO — Daniel Clowes's work is the subject of Modern Cartoonist, a show originally designed for the Oakland Museum of California but recently traveled to Chicago's Museum of Contemporary Art and will be showing at the Wexner Art Center in Ohio next year.