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Weekend Words: Stardust

With a meteor streaking across the Siberian sky and the Oscars ceremony tonight, Weekend Words fixes its eye on the stars — shooting, falling or going nowhere in particular.

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Hilarious Portlandia Episode Shows the Dangers of Conceptual Art

For those uninitiated into its history, conceptual art can often seem like a trick — is that really a urinal in an art gallery? Is sticking yogurt caps on gallery walls really great art? Unfortunately for Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, the stars and creators of the sketch TV show Portlandia, it

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I Dare You Not to Be Impressed By This Tool for 3D Drawing

How can you not be impressed with a project that promises a pen that can draw in the air?

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Required Reading

This week, Leonardo gets digitalize at the British Museum, Abramović on the value of discipline, Piero della Francesco in America, sustainable architecture, and more.

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Weekend Words: Quitting

Now that Pope Benedict XVI has decided to pack it in, Weekend Words considers quitting, but not quite yet.

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See Ai Weiwei's Pro-Love AIDS Foundation Video

Would you think an artist dead set on destroying ancient vases would be quite so romantic? The Elton John AIDS Foundation has commissioned Ai Weiwei to create a short video animation published on the occasion of Valentine's Day, and the results are… unexpected.

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If life gives you lemons …

And not just the Republican ones. Curly is an equal opportunity lemon thrower.

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San Francisco Bay Bridge Turns into the World's Largest Light Installation

The western span of the San Francisco Bay Bridge is coming alive. Starting March 5, it will light up nightly with 25,000 LEDs strung along its network of support cables, turning into the largest light sculpture in the world. In a preliminary test video of the installation by American artist Leo Vill

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An Introduction to the Early Web Aesthetics of Geocities

You might know Olia Lialina and Dragan Espenschied as internet artists, or more specifically, as internet archaeologists. The duo have made a practice of plumbing the depths of internet culture, dusting off old memes and spelunking in old corners of the web. The obscure nature of their work makes th

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Emoji Art History [UPDATED]

Ah, the simplicity of it all. A simple tumblelog post has evolved into a Twitter meme simply named #emojiarthistory.

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W.A.G.E. Calls Out Documenta for Not Paying Artists

Everything sounds worse taken out of context, but a new video released by New York art activist group W.A.G.E. (Working Artists and the Greater Economy) starts with a pretty damning quote from Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, the curator of art mega-exhibition Documenta (also known annoyingly as dOCUMENT

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Meet Leonardo da Vinci, Action Hero

Everyone knows the artist-as-hero myth, but what about the artist as action hero? From what I can tell, that's essentially the premise of a new Starz show coming in April called Da Vinci's Demons.