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Required Reading
This week, advice for artists, unemployment in the arts, the monumentality of bronze, revolutionary graffiti of Egypt, architectural copies, Facebook friendships, and more.
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Best.Halloween.Costume.Ever: Beast Jesus Comes Alive
We've heard of Jesus' fabled ability to resurrect himself but Beast Jesus has proven that he can go from painted plaster to IRL in what can only be described as a freakin' miracle.
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10 Hilarious GIFs and Memes from the Presidential Debate
TV by itself is just so boring these days. With the advent of Twitter and Tumblr, watching real-time events on television (like the presidential debate last night) has become a communal, participatory activity in virtual space. We've selected our ten favorite GIFs and memes from the explosion of onl
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Why is Romney Picking on Big Bird?
Yesterday's US Presidential debate highlighted Republican candidate Mitt Romney's ridiculous plan to cut the budget of the much loved public television channel, PBS.
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The New Yorker Wades into "Curator" Confusion
This week's New Yorker takes a shot at the craze to "curate" everything in our lives.
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This Digital Dance Space Reacts to Performers' Movements in Real Time
This ultra-interactive performance space is dance's version of the New Aesthetic. Created by Taiwan's Anarchy Dance Theatre in collaboration with the avant-garde new media creative firm Ultra Combos, the blank performance stage becomes a canvas for a series of optical-illusion projections that anima
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This Year’s Turner Prize Nominees: Place Your Bets!
Here comes the one moment every year when we put a microscope up to the British art world. The Turner Prize, that annual award competition that christens one contemporary British artist as the leading light of the scene, just opened its 2012 exhibition.
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Required Reading
This week, a new younger Mona Lisa, 1%ers using art as business collateral, image rights stupidity, Klaus in WSJ, a very green museum, Nazi Buddist space sculpture, a fake Basquiat, and more
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MoMA to Stay Open Seven Days a Week
All of the lost-looking tourists outside the Museum of Modern Art on Tuesdays, rejoice! The museum has announced that it will be staying open seven days a week starting in May of 2013. Presumably, MoMA will still take a few holidays off, putting it a little below that Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam which
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Blank Art History Book Update: No Paper Waste and a Buyback Plan
You all remember that blank art history book that the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD) wanted its students to buy, right? The one with no actual pictures of art? Well, students took their concerns about the terrible textbook to the faculty, and here’s what they came back with.
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Museum of Sex Offers Tim Tebow a Lifetime Membership
Sure, it's probably a publicity stunt but we love the idea that the Museum of Sex in New York is offering a lifetime membership to infamously virgin football player Tim Tebow.
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The Art JFK Saw Before He Died
This sounds like it should be a strange, ritualistic superstition or some kind of weird psychological study, but it’s not — the Dallas Museum of Art, in cooperation with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art, is commemorating the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with an exhi