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As technology becomes ever slicker and ever thinner, a trajectory pioneered by the smooth curves and sleek lines of iconic Apple products, designers have been going out of their way to give these products a more natural, human touch. The dominant trend these days seems to be for iPhone and iPad acce
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Does Wendy Vainity actually know what she’s doing? The 48-year-old native of Adelaide, Australia is one of the weirdest YouTube users I’ve ever come across, with a collection of homemade 3D animations that range from the surreal to the creepy to the outright bizarre and disturbing.
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Chinese artist Jody Xiong, who's collaborating with the China Environmental Protection Foundation, placed large white canvases on 132 crosswalks in 15 cities in China. As each person crossed, they picked up a small amount of green paint on their shoes, which they left as trails on the canvas.
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Artist Otto Von Danger (aka Otto Ewen) has created "The Burn Wall Street Project" at this year's Burning Man and set it on fire.
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Art historian and associate professor at New York’s CUNY Graduate Center Claire Bishop has taken to the pages of Artforum’s September edition to issue a kind of rebuke for contemporary art. She argues, in an extended essay that only briefly detours into egregious artspeak, that though the new realit
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This week, real estate as art, Design Museum app, Damien Hirst is a disgrace, online bids doing well at Christie's, Rem Koolhaas profile, Instagram pic cliches, African fashion blogs and more.
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LOS ANGELES — A couple of years ago, new-media performance artist Marc Horowitz submitted his life to the audience. Dubbed "The Advice of Strangers," his Creative Time–commissioned performance was determined entirely by opinion polls and votes from the audience. Horowitz is at it again, as he turns
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Our profound thanks go out to Boing Boing today for unearthing Adrian Maben's Monsieur René Magritte, an amazing short documentary about René Magritte from 1978. For those not familiar with the artist (although you've probably seen reproductions of some of his most famous images), allow our narrator
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For some mystifying reason, a lot of New Yorkers are still having a hard time accepting that bikes (and accompanying bike lanes) are a good thing for the city — an efficient, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transportation. And yet, despite the resistance, it's clear from just walking an
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Last Thursday, CNN did something a mainstream news site doesn't often do: it published a digital art gallery. The gallery is a selection of work by 21 artists devoted to the theme of power. All of the art was commissioned by the news organization, which strikes me as a really interesting and excitin
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The overnight artstar and founder of Gimenez Modern Restoration Services may have known what she was doing all along … hmmmmm …
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This week, the unexpected beauty of crime photography, CNN asks artists about their take on power, Jackson Pollock's last painting, kids talk Rothko, Facebook's photo obsession and more.