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Toledo Museum Justifiably Touchy About NY Times Holocaust Restitution Claim
The Toledo Museum of Art is unhappy with its representation in a Times piece about the increasing failure of American museums to restitute Nazi-looted art.
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Beautiful Subversion: Protestors Create Ad Hoc Light Show
As the deepening crisis of confidence in Egypt's Mohammad Morsi unfolds in the country's streets, a video shot yesterday offered a dose of the surreal: a military helicopter hovering over Tahrir Square with protestor laser beams dancing kaleidoscopically on the aircraft's belly.
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Beautiful Subversion: Protestors Create Ad Hoc Light Show
As the deepening crisis of confidence in Egypt's Mohammad Morsi unfolds in the country's streets, a video shot yesterday offered a dose of the surreal: a military helicopter hovering over Tahrir Square with protestor laser beams dancing kaleidoscopically on the aircraft's belly.
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If Likes Could Kill
CHICAGO — Your Facebook life won't last forever, and you know it — that's the gist of Geoffrey Lillemon and Stööki's project "Like to Death."
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If Likes Could Kill
CHICAGO — Your Facebook life won't last forever, and you know it — that's the gist of Geoffrey Lillemon and Stööki's project "Like to Death."
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Required Reading
This week, James Turrell explains why his work photographs badly, LA Times hates MOCA's new architecture show, Corbusier at MoMA, how much does Pandora pay artists, more on Amazon's art-selling business, Francesco Bonami hates Ai Weiwei and Banksy, and more …
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Weekend Words: Marriage
Declaring DOMA dead, (five out of nine members of) the Supreme Court also struck down Act 3, Scene 1 of Hamlet.
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How to Get Lena Dunham, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Catherine Opie to Send You an Email
CHICAGO — Miranda July's new project We Think Alone blurs the lines between a public confession and a private thought, asking participants Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Lena Dunham, Kirsten Dunst, Sheila Heti, Etgar Keret, Late and Laura Mulleavy, Catherine Opie Lee Smolin and Danh Vo to share emails with yo
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A Map, Not a Territory: Apple and the End of Skeuomorphism
In an influential special issue of Scientific American appearing in 1991, the computer scientist Mark Weiser wrote of the challenges in integrating computers to “the natural human environment” such that they “vanish into the background.” Though not quite a theory of user interface design, Weiser’s n
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Is That Your Cat on the Caro Sculpture?
We're instinctively taught not to touch the art by stern museum guards and gallery attendants that drill into you the idea that it is untouchable, literally, but imagine my surprise when I visited the home of New York critic and curator Karen Wilkin and saw her cats really loving her sculpture colle
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Frank Gehry Appreciates the Patronage of 'Benevolent Dictators'
In an interview appearing in the current issue of Foreign Policy and posted to the publication's website on Monday, Frank Gehry admitted that he was "reluctant" to participate in the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi project, citing the distance and the fact that the "cultural issues seemed so different."
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US Supreme Court Strikes Down Anti-Gay Marriage Law, Let's Celebrate with Art
In a landmark 5-4 ruling, the US Supreme Court has ruled that DOMA (Defense of Marriage Act) is unconstitutional. In celebration of this landmark ruling, we've collected some art works that explore the realities and anxieties around gay marriage.