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Yup, That Was a Banksy [UPDATE 4]

Remember that find by Walking and Typing yesterday? Well, it turns out that was today's Banksy and it's parked in the Meatpacking District.

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The French Fight Back Against Amazon

France has passed a law meant to protect independent bookstores and stop the monolith of Amazon from taking over book sales in the country.

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A Trip Through Internet History with @wwwtxt

LA-based artist Daniel Rehn culls from internet messages posted between 1988 and 1994 and sends them out regularly on his Twitter account.

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Banksy's Beaver Fells Parking Sign in East New York [UPDATE 4]

As a Canadian, I'm rather happy to see a beaver in New York, particularly on a day when Canadian author Alice Munro is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

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An Online Museum for Analogue Art Supplies

The Museum of Forgotten Art Supplies is an online-only museum that celebrates the artistic relics of yesteryear.

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The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar

Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.

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Want to Be an Artist? Try a Little Narcissism

A new study has found that narcissistic people are more likely to consider themselves creative and do creative things than their non-narcissistic counterparts. Um ... we needed a study to tell us that?

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Banksy's Busy Weekend NYC Projects: Diorama, Heart, Syrian War

At least one of Banksy's latest works reveals a more complicated take on the world.

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Required Reading

This week, Jeffrey Deitch talks street art and his future, architecture and design award winners, "average" women around the world, internet empires, Native American symbols, photography in museums, and more.

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Weekend Words: Sing

This week, Weekend Words sings a torch song for the dear, departed City Opera.

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Our Continued Fascination with Extraterrestrial Images

OAKLAND, Calif. — I don't know if it's just me, but alien life — and our fascination with it — seems to have hit something of a crescendo recently. There's the question of alien life in Earth's atmosphere. We have the continued search on Mars, despite an utter dearth of evidence, and there's even a

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Banksy Watch: Chelsea Gets Pissed On

Street art photographer Luna Park spotted this new Banksy a day before it was officially announced on Banksy's website.