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LOS ANGELES - Too many documentaries on architecture feature the same faces, and they're mostly male. Same goes for panel discussions, lectures, and exhibits. The new documentary Coast Modern does a better job, yet there's still far to go.
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If you were to apply the principles of quantum physics to banking, could you generate billions of dollars and fix the world's economy? That's the premise of a new project by artist Jonathon Keats called the Quantum Bank. It opened by way of a prototype quantum ATM installed at the Engineer's Office
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Rapper/self-awareness wormhole Kanye West gave an interview to Jon Caramanica in yesterday's New York Times, a dialogue on West's new album that devolved into the artist detailing his increasingly insane (or polymathic) credentials as a "creative professional."
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Are you an arts administrator with experience in any of "the arts, entertainment, motion picture, and television industries"? Has strip-mining the world for talent with 501(c)(3) impunity left you with an aching void where once resided a crystalline commitment to truth and beauty? Are you an America
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you're probably fully aware that the US government's National Security Agency (NSA) can read your email, track your web movements, and access your Skype, Apple, Google, Facebook, Yahoo, and almost any other major internet account (strangely, Twitter seems exem
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A special report in the June 2013 edition of The Art Newspaper delves into the question of diversity, or lack thereof, of artists in the international art olympics that is the 55th Venice Biennale.
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Here's something you may not have known: there's a massive art factory in North Korea that makes monuments, sculptures, statues museums, and more for at least a dozen countries around the world. In a fascinating story in Bloomberg Businessweek, writer Caroline Winter lays out the details — or at lea
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The first step is admitting you have a "problem."
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Some ideas are so simple it's kind of crazy they haven't been thought of before, especially given the constant exhaustion of creativity in advertising. But these billboards from IBM — which act as ramps, benches, or rain shelters — represent a particular triumph of form and function.
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This week, Fujimoto's Serpentine Pavilion is unveiled, expect more Flavins in the world, David Foster Wallace on a crisis in America, unpaid internships and privilege, Peter Zumthor's proposal for LA, book covers as gendered spaces, the Hirshhorn Museum's bubble pops, and more.
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Nowadays all of the world’s knowledge, or at least enough to fill an encyclopedia, can fit onto a flash drive. Weekend Words feels the pinch as the world shrinks further.
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Earlier this week there was a brief spark of hope that the Michigan Legislature would swiftly pass a bill to try and prevent the sale of the Detroit Institue of Arts' (DIA) collection. That spark has been put out, at least for now, by both the State House of Representatives and Governor Rick Snyder.