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Apple's Amazingly Artistic iOS6 Maps
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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Colbert Report Takes on Beast Jesus Master
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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A Kinetic Echo in a Chapel
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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Ayn Rand's Theory of Art
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’s Ceramic Dog: “Conceptual Art Is Shit”
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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Surfcave Destroys the Illusion of Online Privacy
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.
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Could This Super-Sustainable Cardboard Bike Change the Developing World?
When Israeli designer Izhar Gafni heard that someone built a usable, watertight canoe out of cardboard, one thought began to obsess him: What about a cardboard bike? The result is the world’s first paper bicycle, an uber-efficient, beautifully designed, and eminently sustainable tool that could chan
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This Click in Time
Jonas Lund's new work "This Click in Time" is an internet art piece whose aesthetics relies on and is created by the viewer.
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Required Reading
This week, GO Brooklyn stats, LA MOCA's big picture problems, postmodernism quo vadis, a posthumous memorial in NYC, Jeff Koons' 70% cut, fashion and homophobia, Ground Zero/Zuccotti Park and more.
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Post-Office Worker Befuddled by Abstract Expressionism
You might assume that when a person or an image has made it onto a US postal stamp, it's gained mainstream approbation. The stamp might even spread that acceptance and influence, making more people aware of the subject. I'm inclined to agree. But this morning Hyperallergic marketing associate Kara R
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Art-World Cliques
In an essay just published on his blog, gallerist Ed Winkleman writes about “the dialogue” in the context of the art world, a murky concept that seems to encompass everything from critical conversations of aesthetics to growing currents in contemporary art to the ongoing filtration of the art commun
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Billionaire Art Fight: Perelman v Gagosian
New York billionaire Ron Perelman is filing for "divorce" from his art mentor/dealer Larry Gagosian and the two A-listers are battling over three art works worth over $25 million.