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Required Reading
This week, artist's explore Christmas, photography and slavery, Rosler's unradical garage sale, Norman Foster's NYPL designs, early Franz Kline, Hoberman on The Hobbit, and more.
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Weekend Words: Gifts
Weekend Words turns to gifts, for the obvious reasons.
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Know Your Drones With This Model Identification Kit
Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? Nope, it's a remote-controlled surveillance and/or killing machine. James Bridle, the coiner of the New Aesthetic, has created a model kit to help civilians better understand their UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
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Street Artist Creates a House of Cards from Riot Shields
Sometimes all it takes is the right gust of wind and an entire structure falls. The Yekaterinberg, Russia–based street artist Timofey Radya recently made an enormous sculpture of 55 riot shields, stacking them up in a pyramid that celebrates and critiques the one-year anniversary of the political pr
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Free Photo Sharing Sites Spoofed by The Onion
On the heels of my review of the Flickr app and Instagram's problematic privacy issues, this Onion video nails it.
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Is Flickr's New App an Instagram Killer?
I was working on this review of Flickr's new smartphone app when the online world started to grumble about Instagram and some matters that should concern us all.
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Scripted Gallerina Show Coming to E!
If the debut of Bravo's reality TV show Gallery Girls this fall wasn't enough indication that art is maybe really finally going mainstream — at least on TV — then try this: E! is working on a scripted drama called Gallerina.
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Weekend Words: Apocalypto
If the Mayan calendar has it right, this is the last Weekend Words before the end of the world. Nice knowing you.
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As the Art World Turns … #NotReally
There's so much strange news this week in the art world, so we decided to give you a link list of the news bites #WithCommentary …
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The Museums We Googled Most This Year
For its annual Zeitgeist Report, Google has listed everything that the entire world has Google-searched for most often this year. Art isn't much in evidence, but we do have a list of the top 10 museums of 2012.
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Buy Beast Jesus Artist's Original Painting on eBay
Are you ready for the collecting opportunity of the century? Cecilia Gimenez, the (in)famous artist behind the restoration of Elias Garcia Martinez's "Ecce Homo" in a church in northeastern Spain, is selling her original work on eBay.
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Get Ready for the Flood of 3D Printed Objects
I have a prediction. In the next few years, the art world will be awash in 3D printed objects. I noticed a number this year at the Miami art fairs but they were certainly limited in quantity.