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Weekend Words: Luck
Unlucky? Now that we're officially in year 13 of the 21st century, Weekend Words asks, "What’s luck got to do with it?"
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South Africa's Mobile Churches
LOS ANGELES — On a recent long distance bus trip in Uganda, part of my sojourn was occupied by listening to a religious individual on a bus preach, pray, and collect donations from his captive audience. I didn't understand the language but I understood the form, as he shuffled up and down the aisle
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Museum as Hub? Creating a Living Archive
LOS ANGELES — Archival work as an art form? Visit any prolific artist's studio and you'll see the intense need for archiving their work for a future age. This is particularly true, I think, for artists practicing outside the world's major art centers, where extensive media and established institutio
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Open Arts Journalism: A Trend to Watch?
I've been thinking a lot about the idea of open journalism in the arts. It's an important question, especially in light of the increased role of social media, blogging, and a general web presence that artists building a career in the 21st century often must maintain.
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Flip-Flopping an MP3 into a Record
Writer and technologist Robin Sloan has coined the term "flip-flop" to denote an instance when a digital thing becomes physical, or vice-versa. A new project by Amanda Ghassaei that turns audio files into 3D-printed records.
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Things We Associate With Pantone's Color of the Year 2013
Pantone's Color of the Year 2013 is… emerald! The company's famed color consultants have come up with the single hue that will define our coming year, and it's a deep, elegant version of green.
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Does a Sculpture of Hitler Belong in the Warsaw Ghetto?
Whether art still has the power to disrupt, offend, and shock is a well-worn topic in the art world. Many of us take it for granted that, as Jennifer Schuessler wrote this past fall in the New York Times, "Shock long ago went mainstream." At heart, though, the question concerns not just an artwork b
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Is Tumblr Just an Art Project?
A new issue of Forbes magazine comes with a cover story on David Karp, the founder of the social media behemoth Tumblr. The profile, included as part of the magazine's 30 Under 30 list of "prodigies" (Karp is 26) is titled, "Tumblr: David Karp's $800 Million Art Project." What do they mean by that,
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Get a Piece of Marina Abramović
On eBay right now, you can buy a piece of tape used to mark the position of the visitors' chair for Marina Abramović's epic 2010 performance at the Museum of Modern Art. That might strike you as a fairly minute and extreme bit of fan ephemera, which it may very well be. But it's also an artwork by M
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The Art Market Was Worth $64 Billion in 2012
As the New York Times convenes a debate over the possibility of an art market bubble in a letter to the editor, the news arrives that international art sales reached a grand total of $64 billion over the past year, reports Artlyst.
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Robert Indiana's LOVE in the Indianapolis Snow
This is Robert Indiana first large-scale "LOVE" sculpture (1970 by Lippincott) ever made and it is in the collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
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Happy Public Domain Day!
Continuing a tradition we began last year, we'd like to wish you not just Happy New Year today, but also Happy Public Domain Day!