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Hedge Fund Manager Wants Sotheby's to Start Betting on Art
Dan Loeb, an activist investor and erstwhile Jeff Koons egg-haver, today fired off an apoplectic screed to Sotheby's on behalf of Third Point LLC, his $14 billion hedge fund.
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Where Plastic Flows: Visualizing Environmental Data
OAKLAND, Calif. — There's the old thought experiment in the days before social media and mobile phones: if you could send a message in a bottle, where would it end up?
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Fashion Weak: Mighty Morphin Marina
In a boon for moneyed Power Rangers cosplayers the world over, Marina Abramović has partnered with the internet fashion concern Net-a-Porter to produce "Energy Suits."
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New Exhibit Probes Changes in Portrait Photography
OAKLAND, Calif. — The stereotype of SnapChat — that it's for sending naked pictures — undergirds a more common but mundane usage: it's used for sending pictures of ourselves. And what is a picture of ourselves but a portrait?
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Artist Draws in Three Cities with the Help of Robots
OAKLAND, Calif. — Most artists are incredibly busy, especially in a major city where art events and calendars seem to overflow each day. "If only I could be two places at the same time!" is a common lament.
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Required Reading
This week, Detroiter definitely don't want to sell DIA's art, US gov't shutdown may mean Library of Congress's website goes offline, thinking about portraiture, real estate's love affair with art, the world's first inflatable concert hall, and more.
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Weekend Words: Brink
This week, after years of wrangling, threats and doomsaying, we've received an actual date — October 17th — when the U.S. will run out of cash. Two and a half weeks and then, the brink.
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High Profile Exits Raise Questions About Indianapolis Museum
The new director of the Indianapolis Museum of Art's short tenure has been marked by a spate of departures.
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Knowing Where Your Gadgets Come From
OAKLAND, Calif. — As I type out this post, I am ever more aware of those who piece together the keyboard, circuits and processors that brought this computer to life.
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Art Museum Promo Video That Gets It (Mostly) Right
European museums have been slower than North American institutions to adopt a digital forward way of doing things, but the Musée d'Orsay's recent video promotion for their latest show, Masculine / Masculine, is on the cutting edge of the digital wave.
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From Weird Twitter to Mundane Conceptualism: The @Horse_ebooks Story
Horse_ebooks, that paragon of Twitter non sequitur humor, has turned out to be the "conceptual art" handiwork of Jacob Bakkila, a Buzzfeed "creative strategist," and Thomas Bender.
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Required Reading
This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more