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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.
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Detroit Sports Profit as DIA Collection Considered for Collateral
As the Detroit Institue of Arts (DIA) continues its long slide to Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr's butcher block, several issues have come to light regarding the fate of its artwork and the financial context of the Detroit bankruptcy.
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Where Can Google Street View Take You?
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Street View, as anyone who's had to visit a new place has acknowledged, is eminently useful.
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Banksy's Clichéd 9/11 Tribute [UPDATE 4]
Really, Banksy? Today's street art work, reportedly in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, depicts the Twin Towers but in place of an explosion the artist has placed a what looks like an altered flower.
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Required Reading
This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met's "primitive" heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.
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Weekend Words: Five
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
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Auction Trolls
Yesterday's first digital art auction at Phillips may have just taken the crown for being the most memorable contemporary art auction for me since Damien Hirst's auction at Sothebys in London the day Lehman collapsed in 2008. I was there. It was wild. So was yesterday.
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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.