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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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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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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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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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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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This week, Nobel prize controversy, artists do science, Creative Time Summit fallout, Ai Weiwei in DC, the ethics of vandalizing art, and more.
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Wall Street Journal art market reporter Kelly Crow is probably one of the only journalists whom Larry Gagosian will talk money with — or talk to at all, really. The megadealer is known for rarely agreeing to interviews, so it's always interesting to read what he has to say when he does grant them.
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Recently, we received a mysterious black cardboard box covered in white writing and octopus tentacles. The package was from artist Zoë Williams, who surprised us with a wonderful — if unexpected — narwhal felt sculpture.
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With Halloween only three weeks away, those of us in the art community are facing a very important decision: what should we dress up as — Beast Jesus or Big Bird?
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Many people have been raising questions about how the media should treat attention whores like the Yellowists, who are obviously committing crimes to fan the fires of fame. This is a question that confronts any journalist when covering something that is both criminal and possibly a ploy to attract a
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Cecilia Gimenez's creative restoration of an 120-year-old ecce homo fresco by Elias Garcia Martinez in Spain may have become an international icon for its frizzy mane of hair and blurred face (even inspiring a Halloween costume), but it could all vanish in a matter of minutes.
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Exhibition trailers have been around for a while now, but every once in a while one comes along that's markedly different. The Toledo Museum of Art has one of those, for the exhibition Manet: Portraying Life, which opened at the museum yesterday.