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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.
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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