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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.
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A Few Choice Words from Gagosian
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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There's a Narwhal in Our Mail
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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Halloween Costume Conundrum: Beast Jesus or Big Bird?
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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Should We Ignore Art Vandals?
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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Beast Jesus Could be Restored in Just Seven Minutes, Says Conservator
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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Is This Video Ad for an Art Exhibition or Diamonds?
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.
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This Is the Art You Can Buy at Costco
Thirty-pound bags of flour, giant TV sets, and giant boxes of diapers are a few of the things you might find at the bulk discount store Costco. Oh yeah, and original art by Pierre Bonnard, George Rouault, Henri Matisse, and Andy Warhol. The big-box store has started selling fine art — and they've so
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People Who Aren't Upset That a Rothko Was Defaced Today
The reaction in 140 characters or less after today's Rothko incident at the Tate Modern has been overwhelming … including some people who seemed to enjoy the news.