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Weekend Words: Yesterday
This week, the Armory Show celebrates 100 years of modern art in the U.S.; for Weekend Words, it feels like yesterday.
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Expand Your Creative Arsenal with a Monthly Subscription of New Art Supplies
Launched last month by EatSleepDraw, a lively online art gallery of user-submitted content, ArtSnacks is a new subscription delivery service of five curated art products for artists to sample each month, delivered in a special, hand-wrapped package that's sure to inspire bursts of creativity.
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Does Nick Cave's Protest Song for Athens Capture the Zeitgeist?
LONDON — Since the outbreak of the Crisis in Greece, many parallels have been drawn between Greece and Germany. Indeed, Paul Mason at the BBC looked back to the Weimar and the rise of fascism as a reflection of the rise of fascism in Greece, while T Magazine called Athens the new Berlin.
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Required Reading
This week, MoMA's Rauschenberg/Johns closet, Libeskind rails against autocrat-serving architects, Piero della Francesca at the Frick, Dalí's curious 1958 interview with Mike Wallace, Cory Arcangel in The New Yorker, and more.
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Weekend Words: Cuts
With the threat of sequestration looming over the country all week like the sword of Damocles, Weekend Words has compiled its own set of cuts...
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Is the Dachshund UN More than Just a Silly and Highly Enjoyable Farce?
If you can possibly get over the adorable thing that is happening in this photo, let's think about why exactly a bunch of cute dachshunds acting as 36 dog delegates in a replica United Nations assembly on Human Rights might be successful as a sort of experimental theatre. Australian artist Bennett M
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Murder Is a Felony
And judges in the UK know it.
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The Armory Fair Is on Artsy, So You Don’t Have to Go IRL
As Artsy has gained in momentum (if not revenue) in the past year, it’s become apparent that what the platform is best at is not necessarily tracing the genealogy of artworks but simply reproducing exhibitions well in an online format, with high-res images and an attractive interface. That argument
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MoMA Curator Paola Antonelli Appears on Colbert Report to Talk Design
How well designed is your coffee mug? Our personal design heroine and all-time curator crush Paola Antonelli appeared on the Colbert Report last night to critique all those everyday objects we take for granted in advance of her next big show at the Museum of Modern Art.
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A New Way to Create Shareable, Collaborative Digital Zines
When it comes to sharing content online, we’re spoiled by choice. You can post pictures to your Tumblr or Facebook, videos to YouTube or Vine, and words to … pretty much anything. But what those formats lack is a way to control the narrative of what you post. The Facebook photo album, it should be s
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Performa Launches a Post-National Country Pavilion Program
The world’s most famous biannual art event, the Venice Biennale, stands apart from other biennials because of its network of country-specific pavilions, discrete buildings that different countries use to show their exhibitions. Now, the Performa performance art biennial, one of the world’s more diff
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Turn GIFs into Glitch Art
With the launching of Vine and the increasing ease of shooting portable video, you might be a little tired of the GIF. It’s so short! So looping! There’s no sound! Fortunately, Tim Baker and Chris Shier have come up with a way to freshen up your GIFs — by melting them.