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VALENCE, France — There is a new thread in the ongoing stream of censorship by social networks and mobile applications. Vine, the iPhone and iPod Touch "Instagram for video" app, underwent controversy mere days after it's release on the App Store. Twitter-owned Vine was released last week to a notab
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Go to vinepeek.com. Spend five minutes watching it without tearing up, feeling overwhelmed by humanity's vastness, and becoming totally addicted. I dare you.
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It happened in a surprising instant: North Korea became just a little bit more accessible. Google Maps now features data on the secretive country, with the names of streets and buildings labeled, plus some more sensitive information.
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The Athens-based architecture practice Oiio Architecture Office has offered up a riff on an icon — they've taken Frank Lloyd Wright's Guggenheim museum and mutated it, adding 13 more floors onto the structure's famous spiral.
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Women, ladies, girls, however you identify — if you've got two X chromosomes, I'm talking to you, and I have an unfortunate announcement: You can't paint. At least not well. So if you're thinking about becoming a painter, don't do it; you'll never be any good. If you already are one, I'm sorry; you
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In the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, Rockaway Beach's iconic boardwalk is all but destroyed. "It's sheer devastation," said Queens Parks Commissioner Dorothy Lewandowski. The remains of the structure between Beach 110th Street and Beach 88th Street is a wreckage of concrete frames and sheets of wood
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Last November, I was delighted to find this lovely work by Judith Supine on the streets of Williamsburg, Brooklyn … and then it was gone.
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At this very moment many young artists are endlessly scrolling through the job listings on New York Foundation for the Arts hoping to find anything that slightly resembles a paying job. Then it suddenly appears, a job listing by no other than Jeff Koons. I’ve always wondered why someone would ever w
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Today, one of my favorite books turns 200: Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen's brilliant novel of wit, manners, and love. The anniversary got me thinking broadly about the — genre? category? medium? — that seems to be forever expanding these days, book art, and more specifically, about the work of Je
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LOS ANGELES — In places like the US and Korea, it can be easy to rely entirely on the internet. Upload something to Dropbox, download it to your server, let it live on the cloud. But in many parts of the world with unreliable or censored internets, people rely on USB sticks and SD cards to transfer
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This week, Hillary Clinton on art, Carl Andre knows he can't draw, the Sistine Chapel has major problems, Larry Gagosian gets profiled, the Rijksmuseum buys its first abstract painting, the Egyptian arts community's problems with their government, and more.
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Everyone talks about the weather, and Weekend Words is no exception. With New York undergoing a long frigid blast this week, let's raise a cold one to winter.