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The Ever-Cool 8-Bit Aesthetic
The Evolution of 8-Bit Art, is the latest of the PBS series, Off Book, exploring the technological and cultural heritage of the thriving aesthetic.
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Olek Sells Cellphones To Pay Her Legal Bills
Knitting her way through a cellphone commercial, crochet-crazy artist Olek is Samsung's latest spokesperson, starring in a commercial for their Galaxy Note smart phone.
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Overheard in the Art World
Overheard in the Art World is back! And we're catching up on a few weeks of things we've overheard.
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Self-Healing Material
Mimicking how our body responds to cuts, scientists work to create self-healing materials.
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Twittering Machine 2.0
Angelo Plessas is a net artist whose works predominately deal with color, interactivity and sound. "Re-Twittering Machine" (2012) caught my attention because of the ever growing hype around social media's role in social unrest like the Arab Spring and the Occupy Movement.
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The Effects of Jaws, a Classic Turns 37
Truth be told, Jaws changed things. And tomorrow the film turns 37.
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Required Reading
This week, Marina Abramović fesses up, the art economy (kinda) explained, online artists and the viral tendency, violence against women in a magazine editorial, the economic insanity of art fairs, top 10 books that were lost to time, Kenyan street artists strike at corrupt politicians and more.
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Do Jay-Z and Jeff Koons Really Need $1 Million for Water Tank Art?
For twelve weeks in the spring of 2013, the organizers of the Water Tank Project, a public art project set to raise awareness on water scarcity, plan to decorate 300 water tanks around New York City with big name artists. But you have to wonder, is it worth it?
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Visualizing a Cloud
James Leng's "Point Cloud" is a stunning kinetic sculpture with mesmerizing movement and a clean, digital-like aesthetic abstracted from weather data.
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Art Writers Forecast An Art Market Crash, Art Market Doesn't Care
With a Mark Rothko painting selling for nearly $87 million at Sotheby's in addition to record prices for artists from Edvard Munch to Roy Lichtenstein, it seems pretty strange to see a variety of art and business writers are predicting the end of the art market boom.
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Subway Maps of the Body
I stumbled across two on the fabulous Medical State of Mind tumblelog, told from the perspective of third year med student.
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Mark Zuckerberg's Face Made of Books
Malaysian artist/architect Hong Yi carved the face of Mark Zuckerberg in a stack of books, creating a strange portrait of the famous Facebook founder.