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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.

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Required Reading

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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Weekend Words: Shrink

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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Michigan Gov Calls Detroit Museum's Collection an "Asset"

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.

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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.