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Required Reading
This week, the Venice Biennale makes the art world go round, a new accessibility icon, Starry Night explained, Warhol inspired Dior, James Turrell overload, and more.
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Weekend Words: Crash
Weekend Words looks at crashes past with an eye toward a crash-free future.
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David Byrne's Bad Advice to Columbia's Visual Arts MFA Grads
On the second track of David Byrne's last album with the Talking Heads, he told the story of Mr. Jones, a pyrotechnic jack-of-all trades, "everybody's friend," straddling the creative universe of "rock stars" and the hum-drum of "conventioneers." But when Byrne took to the stage last week, all wire-
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Building Parity: On Women Architects
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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What Happens When You Cross Banking with Physics
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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Surfing Kanye's Insane New Wave
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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Department of Homeland Security Seeks ... Arts Administrators
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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The Internet Has a Lot to Say About NSA Surveillance
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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How Diverse Is the Venice Biennale?
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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This North Korean Art Factory Will Build Monuments to Your Leaders
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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Calling to Order the First Meeting of Artists Anonymous
The first step is admitting you have a "problem."
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Form Is Function: Billboards Offer a Place to Rest or Escape the Rain
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.