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This Artist Is Toasted
CHICAGO — When isn't art good for breakfast? Oslo-based artist Ida Skivenes makes all types of food art out using a piece of toast on a kitchen plate as her canvas.
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A Plea for Detroit [UPDATED]
On May 24 the news broke that Detroit's emergency manager, Kevyn Orr, was considering whether the city could or should sell off the art collection of the Detroit Institute of Arts (DIA) to help pay back its debts. The reactions pretty much range from "this is a bad idea" to "this is a terrible idea.
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Bradley Manning "Hero" Mural Returns in Greenpoint, Trial Starts Today
Greenpoint's "HERO BRADLEY MANNING" mural returned to Nassau Avenue after a brief hiatus. Manning's trial begins today.
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Required Reading
This week, the winners of the Venice Biennale, cat selfies, controversy in Poland, Abramović loves New York, a short history of the Bauhaus, questions for the Warhol Foundation, free PDF downloads of Wolfgang Tillmans books, and more.
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Weekend Words: Rocks
Sarah Sze is representing the USA at the Venice Biennale, which opened this week. Part of her project is the production of meticulously crafted artificial rocks, which she has placed around the city.
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Sculpted from the Foam: A Kitty in Your Coffee Cup
Crafting delicate leaves or willowy hearts is something of a coffee art standard, but a barista in Japan is sculpting designs that creep out in three dimensions from the coffee foam. Kazuki Yamamoto uses just a pin, a spoon, and infinite patience (and ideally, not allowing for the coffee to get cold
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The Mesmerizing Duality of Mugshots vs. Facebook Profile Pics
We live in a world shaped by the proliferation not just of social media, but also of surveillance. Sometimes it seems as if we're constantly presenting and re-presenting ourselves, selfies upon selfies, in an effort to counteract the official narratives imposed by others. It's telling that the nonst
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Georgia Museum of Art Crowdsources a Deaccession Decision
Once upon a time it was provocative, but today crowdsourcing in the art world is pretty much commonplace. There are crowd-curated exhibitions, crowdsourced prizes, volunteer transcription, and crowdsourced art/life. But the Georgia Museum of Art seems to be taking things to a new level: it's asking
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Archeologists Discover Nearly 5,000 Ancient Cave Paintings in Mexico
Archeologists have discovered nearly 5,000 ancient paintings that depict humans, animals, astronomical imagery, and abstract designs in a series of caves in Mexico. Located near the Sierra de San Carlos mountain range, in the Burgos region of northeastern Mexico, the paintings are the work of three
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The Pleasure of Great Art in Ugly Rooms
What is the bizarre pleasure in looking at art in banal rooms? Is it the economic disparity between the blue-chip objects and their more middle and lower class surroundings? Maybe it emphasizes that context is everything in the realm of modern and contemporary art.
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Hijacking Family Circus to Reflect a New Reality
Erin Bradley's Park Slope Family Circus blog appropriates one of a longest running American comic strips, Family Circus, and injects it with wit and social commentary. It's as if artist Norman Rockwell's idyllic vision of America was transformed into an episode of Portlandia, the popular hipster-lam
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Why a Queer Photographer Is Going South
CHICAGO — Budding young Cincinnati-based gay documentary photographer Christian Hendriks has an agenda. It involves travel, pictures and maybe even you.