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One of the Art World's Most Interesting Couples
This New York love story chronicles the chaotic 40-year marriage of boxing painter Ushio Shinohara and artist Noriko Shinohara.
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Required Reading
This week, "smart dumb" is a thing, High Line shenanigans, Martin Scorsese talks cinema aesthetics, the charitable-industrial complex, every movie reference in The Simpsons, and more.
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Weekend Words: Ditch
It was only a matter of time before MOCA ditched Deitch.
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Under Construction: Engaging with Art from the Ground Up
WILLIAMSTOWN, MA — After a while it felt like a barrage: a darkly rendered animation set in a psychiatrist’s office and a gigantic space station; a Chinese labor camp investigation enacted by singing puppets; a film featuring a Depression-era Kansan doctor, goat testicles and the world’s most powerful
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The Most and Least Popular Emoji on Twitter
Ever wonder which emoji are most popular with users? Now Emojitracker is tracking Twitter users to find out which symbols are being used the most right now.
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Stephen Colbert Chimes in About Detroit Museum Sell-Off Fears
The Colbert Report tackles the bankruptcy of Detroit, and the irony that Detroit could possibly sell off Diego Rivera's "Detroit Industry" mural, which depicts a socialist worker's utopia.
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Collective Moods Transformed into a Rhapsody of Light
Artist Jennifer Wen Ma and lighting designer Zheng Jianwe have collaborated to create "Nature and Man in Rhapsody of Light" at Beijing's famed Water Cube aquatic center.
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Art Is the New Bitcoin, or Something
Last week, the Financial Times Alphaville blog weighed in on the whole "art as an asset/market" thing, joining the series of recent commentaries from Quartz and Felix Salmon on the topic.
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The Masked Man of Honduras Brings Street Art to Its Knees
CHICAGO — A Honduran street artist who goes by the name of Urban Maeztro, a translation of "Urban Master," is covering the walls of the country's capital, Tegucicalpa, with posters of art historical images holding neon weapons.
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New Yorker Art Critic Justifies Looting of Detroit Museum
Would New Yorker art critic Peter Schjeldahl suggest that Greece sell the Parthenon to pay its crippling national debt?
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When Street Art Goes Meta
This image, depicting the work of British street artist DS, was briefly on the front page of Reddit earlier this afternoon, and it's tremendous.
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Things You Could Do Instead of Waiting in Line for the Rain Room
Sure, the Rain Room at the Museum of Modern Art sounds cool — but is it really worth waiting in line for 13 hours to see it? That's apparently what some people did this past weekend, says Gothamist, topping the previous high of 12 hours in London.