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In the latest installment in the New York Times Magazine's excellent Riff column, Robert F. Coleman recounts the story of how his band moved to Berlin, that well-known utopia of artists and creativity, and promptly failed.
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Everyone knows that Hurricane Sandy caused major damage to parts of New York City, but if you want more concrete information about how much flooding really happened — how many feet of water and where — the New York Times has published an amazing map that offers precisely that.
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Does Cyber Monday really exist? Who cares, but if you're like us you're looking for crazy stuff that isn't another iDevice, or scarf or mug or whatever everyone else already has. Here is our list of five items that should satisfy the most art-afflicted holiday gift junky.
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This week, pornographic prehistoric art, the military-architectural complex, war photography, art historians and the internet, the man who owns The Scream, reasons to write about the art market, and more.
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Now that the Holiday Shopping Season is upon us, we turn first to someone who knew a thing or two about shopping
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What’s the best way to combat the post-Thanksgiving hangover? Probably not waking up before dawn (or even after dinner) and lining up at a store to buy stuff. This Black Friday, let’s celebrate instead with a slew of anti-consumption posters and memes, many of which are supporting Walmart’s employee
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Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
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I think it's happened: I've hit my Gangnam Style limit with this new video by Anish Kapoor and his cohorts in museums and galleries (not to mention random offices and people) around the world.
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Romanian artist Sebastian Cosor creates a very personal animated vision of the world inhabited by Edvard Munch's "The Scream" (1893–1910) and sets it all to the soundtrack of Pink Floyd's "Great Gig in the Sky" (1973).
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Smartphone pics aren't the only source of social media buzz circulating around Edvard Munch's "The Scream, currently at MoMA. The chatter on Twitter is pretty funny, intriguing, and sometimes revealing, even if some of it is not directly related (but funny nonetheless).
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For those still struggling to recover from Hurricane Sandy and the destruction left in its wake, we've rounded up a few more ways that you can get help.
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This week, the best thing you'll read today, the dying GIF, art auction records, the insularity of the New Aesthetic, the meaning of Edgar Degas' history paintings, and more.