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New York's AIDS Memorial Looks Like a Bus Shelter
How did this ethereal design of an “infinite forest” transform into a hideous, bus-shelter-like, 18-foot steel canopy?
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A World Where Kids Go to Mapplethorpe Museums and the Gov't Pays for it #NSFW
The Onion satirical site has decided to "go there" for their latest art-related story titled, "Robert Mapplethorpe Children's Museum Celebrates Grand Opening," which almost sounds like it could be real. You know there has to be latex and lube involved … or something.
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The Perils of Sleeping in an Art Museum
There seems to be a particular penchant among famous actors for taking to performance art (we’re looking at you, James Franco). But actress Tilda Swinton’s ongoing escapade at the Museum of Modern Art, in which she sleeps inside a glass box, is actually a re-performance of an older piece done before
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A New Way for Artists to Get Paid for Image Use
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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Extreme Art Tourism at the Top of The Great Pyramids
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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The World's First Fully Articulated 3D-Printed Gown
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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Why Would a Museum Bother With Gaming?
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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Required Reading
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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Weekend Words: Birds
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 Offers Impossible Make-Up Tips for Men
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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Get Your Abstract Video Art Projected in MoMA’s Lobby
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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Just in Case You Forgot that the US Visa Mess Impacts the Art Community
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.