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VIDEO: Ai Weiwei Goes Gangnam Style
With this one, the title pretty much says it all. Ai Weiwei's entire studio has participated in a remake of South Korean rapper PSY's epic global pop hit "Gangnam Style."
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The Failures (and Some Successes) of Jeffrey Deitch in LA
The insular art world likes its public follies almost as much as Hollywood. We're constantly looking for the latest slip-up, the misspoken press statement or flubbed exhibition. That's why the trials and travails of Jeffrey Deitch as the director of the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art have be
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Why You Should Read Sarah Thornton's Top 10 Reasons Not To Write About the Art Market
This doesn't happen very often. It's highly unusual for someone in an industry to critique its inner workings.
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Required Reading
This week, the difficulty of selling stolen paintings, what art forgers paint in their down time, Picasso's 17 year old lover, the "meaning" of hotels, the state of political art, the lives of the 1%, and more.
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A Subway Platform Becomes a Front Porch
I've always enjoyed riding the subway impossible distances — out to Coney Island, say, or the Far Rockaways — largely because the cityscape and the scenery change so much along the way. Traveling out to the ends of various lines transports you away from the New York City you know.
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Fleeting Glimpses of Scientific Knowledge, Turned Into Art
Words and writing, even those you're seeing here, are an imperfect vehicle for communication. There's always a disconnect between the writer and their audience; meaning is translated through a medium that's easy to misunderstand or misinterpret. Spanish photographer Alejandro Guijjaro's Momentum ser
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10 Surprising Facts from Art Review's 2012 Power 100
It's time once again to look at a particular metric of art-world success — Art Review's Power 100, which gets published annually to tell us just how many people place above us in the supposed pecking order. There still aren't any bloggers on the list (though, to be fair, writers and editors aren't a
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China's Virtual Supermarkets
Today China's biggest online food retailer, Yihaodian, announced one of the most amazingly weird plans I've ever heard: the company will roll out 1,000 virtual supermarkets around the country. The stores — spanning 1,200 square meters (roughly 12,900 square feet) in virtual space and stocking about
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Just in Time for Tonight's Presidential Debate
Some Williamburgers aren't happy with the idea of a Romney presidency but they're not exactly thrilled with Obama either.
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Abandoned Old Masters Paintings
In these fascinating series of works, Hungarian new media artist Bence Hajdu has removed the figures from a series of Old Masters classics with such precision that it's almost hard to believe.
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Watch a Facebook Photo Go Viral
There are now more than one billion people using Facebook every month, and there's no doubt that a huge number of them are sharing photos. To help illustrate what that means, the company teamed up with design studio Stamen to create animated visualizations of three different pictures going viral. Th
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Required Reading
This week, Nobel prize controversy, artists do science, Creative Time Summit fallout, Ai Weiwei in DC, the ethics of vandalizing art, and more.