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Though the internet allows for distributing media and imagery faster and wider than ever before, it has also taken ownership of the image out of the hands of its creators. That means artists can’t necessarily control where and when their work shows up — a revolutionary change from the era when estat
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Tourist photos are by now a centuries-old cliché, particularly in the case of those landmarks that have been photographed millions of times over. But a group of Russian photographers just found a way to spice up their shots of so cliché a subject as Egypt’s Great Pyramids — by climbing to the top of
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3D-printed dresses might not be anything new — they've shown up on Paris runways already, covering models in intricate meshes and surreal shapes. But the new 3D-printed gown designed by Michael Schmidt and Francis Bitoni with the help of Shapeways is on another level.
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There's only so much the brain can absorb in a museum, and for the 2012 Brains: The Mind as Matter exhibition at Wellcome Collection in London, the museum created an online game to keep their visitors' brains thinking about the anatomy of their own skulls. Called AXON, it's a surprisingly fast-pace
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This week, is it art (again), Toyo Ito wins Pritzker Prize, debating the creative class, Penn Station & LA MOCA problems, 20 Top Artist Grants and Fellowships, heavy metal in a London museum, how Iran censors the web, and more.
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In its previous installment, Weekend Words had bees on its mind; now the birds have asked for equal time.
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Yoko Ono is usually a bit much for me: I find things like smile apps and instruction pieces that tell you to "Make a wish" and "Keep wishing" cloyingly precious. (Maybe I'm just a cranky, cynical New Yorker.) But Ono has a new video called "Make-Up Tips for Men" (made as part of her clothing line fo
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The Museum of Modern Art wants to use your home videos to decorate its storied lobby and atrium for its next PopRally party. The catch? The submissions have to be totally abstract, and just one minute long.
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Nick Bertke (aka Pogo) is an Australian mashup artists who has found himself in an unusual predicament, he has received a 10 year ban from entering the United States for not having the proper visa when crossing the border. He took his plea to YouTube.
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If your entire life were on camera, would anyone want to look at it? Last year, we reported on Memoto, a tiny camera that clips to your clothing and takes two photographs a minute for all the time it’s on. The first “lifelogging” photos from the device have just been published and they look… well, p
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This week, US is tops, LA's MOCA drama in GIFs, UAE's censorship problems, Michael Crichton on Jasper Johns, The Thing is back, and more.
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A brief report in this week's Science Times tells us that "some plants, notably coffee and citrus, attract pollinators with caffeine-laced nectar, which gets the bees hooked as repeat customers." Weekend Words welcomes the news of a hitherto unknown species of caffeine addicts with a squirt of honey