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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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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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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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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
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In Monroe, Ohio at Solid Rock Church there was a giant statue of Jesus with arms wide open toward Interstate-75. That was until 2010, in what some could consider divine comedy, the statue was struck by lighting and promptly burst into flames, leaving nothing but it's skeletal remains behind. Althoug
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This week, Salman Rushdie reflects on the 1989 fatwa, MOCA watchers psychoanalyze Eli Broad, Charlie Hebdo draws Muhammad again, GQ goes to ArtPrize, Tino Sehgal in the Tate's Turbine Hall and more.
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You don't really want your maps to be "artistic" renderings of reality, we all prefer them accurate, but the recent release of Apple's iOS6 maps is proving more artistic fiction rather than fact.
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The tragic/demented/whatever-it-is story of Cecilia Gimenez has entered a new phases of its pop culture notoriety when last night Stephen Colbert of The Colbert Report took on the Spanish restoration "master."
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BERKELEY, California — Remember Ernesto Neto's jaw-dropping installation "Leviathan Thot," at the Panthéon in Paris in 2006? As much as I loved "Leviathan Thot" it could have easily been made in the 1970s or 80s. Recently however, I stumbled across another artist in who has made an equally powerful
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Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It's encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, written and compiled by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi.
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Grayson Perry is a cross-dressing British ceramic artist. Bob and Roberta Smith is a single artist who goes by a double name that also functions as an inside joke. Two of the weirder personalities in the contemporary art world, they come together in this video, in which a small sculpture of a dog pr
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What if every image that ever passed through your web browser was published for all to see? Surfcave is a new Chrome browser plugin and website by Jonathan Vingiano and Brad Troemel that turns surfing the internet into a relentlessly public, voyeuristic, and hypnotic activity.