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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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At their hyped-as-ever product launch yesterday, Apple announced the iPhone 5, a new version of the classic that’s longer, thinner, and lighter. The new phone is four inches long (adding 176 pixels to the height of the display), has a faster internet connection, and a better processor. So why do I f
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A post by my fellow editor Kyle Chayka got me thinking about the "outsider artist" designation and the different ways people define it.
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This week, the philosophical meaning of beauty, Ai Weiwei's LES education, mega-exhibitions, online fakes, Chardin's strange self-portrait and more.
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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.