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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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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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This week, New Yorker gets snarky, guns at MoMA, new Banksy, digitizing drawings, a literary classic is banned in North Carolina, and more
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"If America disappeared off the face of the Earth today, the greatest single cultural loss would be blues, jazz, hip-hop, R&B, rock-and-roll … ”
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Here are some of our favorite English-language tweets, which range from the very important and serious to the downright hilarious …
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With college tuition costs in the US rising faster than inflation, the decision to go to art school is increasingly fraught. How do you know if the ends will justify the means? Is it worth it only if you have a scholarship? Why go to art school? That last question is the basis for a tumblelog called
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Asian Americans occupy 6.1 percent of creative jobs in this country, which is nearly half of the Asian-American population.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Amidst news of its filing for bankruptcy, Detroit is becoming ingrained in the popular imagination as a city fallen from grace. That it's also a rapidly emerging art and technology hub is lesser known.
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This week, Istanbul Biennial loses its edge, Prada Marfa is an ad, science of snobbery, a better GIF, Code Pink's photo bombs, Congress's new media law, making fun of fashion week, and more.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Part of what makes propaganda effective is the way it uses words that collectively sound like they mean something but ultimately signal very little.
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We dare you not to be fascinated by the wacky and amazing animated GIFs of Kevin Weird.
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OAKLAND, Calif. — Many common phobias make intuitive sense. Fear of snakes, fear of spiders, fear of heights — it's easy to understand that these crippling phobias emerge from natural cautions we've inherited from millions of years of evolution.