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The Yayoi Kusama Experience at David Zwirner in Emoji
Some things are simply better said in emoji …
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Traffic and the Human Condition
A few years ago, China's traffic jams of epic proportions started to make the news. Traffic on the ring roads in a city like Beijing is on par with, sometimes even worse than, that of Los Angeles's 405 or New York's BQE at rush hour. It seems to be an inevitable part of our lives, as this amazing co
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Contract Fever: The Legal Dance of Gallerists, Buyers, and Artists
“Above $1 million, you kind of expect it now. These are business people who are used to contracts accompanying every sale they make. It is the same to them if they are buying or selling companies or artwork."
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To Instagram or Not to Instagram?
One of the stories making the rounds in the art blogosphere at the moment is an article from LiveScience, which details a study that found people were less likely to remember artwork they saw in a museum if they photographed it. The findings dovetail nicely with an essay by Eric Gibson in the curren
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Today in 'End of History': Obama Snaps Funeral Selfie at Mandela Memorial
At left, via the Agence France-Presse, is a photograph of President Barack Obama, of the United States, taking a "funeral selfie" with David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, and Helle Thorning Schmidt, Prime Minister of Denmark.
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Photographing Secret Places
If you're unfamiliar with the work of Trevor Paglen, then I would suggest you change that right now through this excellent short video (08:59) from the Creators Project.
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Generate Exhibition Titles with the Click of a Button
I was extremely pleased this afternoon when Museum Nerd tweeted the Lazy Curator Random Exhibition Title Generator. Conceived by Rebecca Uchill and programmed by Ben Guaraldi, the site, well, generates amazing exhibition titles at the click of a button.
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Required Reading
This week, Mandela is gone, Hopi artifacts go on sale in Paris, smarm is bad, books on Lucian Freud, playing da Vinci's piano-cello, and more.
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Weekend Words: Risk
With the rollout of Obamacare rolling out once more, the chatter is again all about risk: risk pools, risks corridors, pricing risks, risk adjustments — calling to mind the words of former Vice President Dan Quayle, "If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure."
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Art Basel Miami Beach Foibles: Deitch Says "Hi, Kanye" to Diddy
MIAMI BEACH — Why were Jeffrey Deitch and Sean “Diddy” Combs chatting in an Art Basel Miami Beach booth about Kanye? This is funny …
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David Lynch's Abandoned Factory Photographs
David Lynch definitely knows an unnerving shot when he sees one. This is, after all, the filmmaker who brought us the distorted reality of Twin Peaks, culminating in the mind-melting Black Lodge and, well, absolutely everything in Eraserhead. Now Lynch is presenting two decades of photographs of fac
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Going Private: From WeChat to SnapChat
Around this time last year, Instagram caused a flurry after attempting to change its terms of service — what the Globe and Mail's Russell Smith called "an apparent move to appropriate and sell every user’s photos." Smith pondered how growing awareness of the public documentation of our private lives