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"A security guard at the Metropolitan Museum of Art accidentally shot himself in the leg while cleaning his gun inside the famed Upper East Side institution this afternoon … A spokesman for the museum described the accidental shooting in a locker room as a 'freak accident' and said the public was ne
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LOS ANGELES — QR codes are almost certainly New Aesthetic. Right? Right? After my first post on a QR Code stencil, I was surprised to receive a number of pitches for other QR code-related art. If it's not a zeitgeist, it's certainly a trend.
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LOS ANGELES — I've been noticing more tiny things in my computer these days. No, they're not ants or crumbs. It's art, folks. Just art writ small.
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LOS ANGELES — There's only one thing I love more than art installations. And that's watching an art installation come together. And now there's a tumblelog for that.
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LOS ANGELES — Look out, world, the New Aesthetic is coming. Or is it? We here at Hyperallergic thought we might start collecting more evidence of the tide of new aesthetics sweeping our tweeting-clicking-instagramming.
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LOS ANGELES — These visualizations out of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, dubbed Perpetual Ocean, show the currents of the oceans.
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CHICAGO — Hat tip to Paul Klein in Chicago for alerting me via Facebook to artist Leon van den Eijkel, who has posted a gigantic number of photos of artists’ studios (predominantly historical) on his Facebook Wall.
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The Getty has launched a comprehensive Pacific Standard Time at the Getty Center archive online for art-lovers slash internet-junkies.
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PUNE, INDIA — It has been some time now that I have been reading and looking at pictures of abstract Tantric paintings coming from Rajasthan, India. I have seen a couple of artists referring to them in their video interviews while elaborating on the topic of non-objective art, and then there was the
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Photographer Alex MacLean got his pilot's license and has been capturing amazing views from above.
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Dan Matutina's Versus/Hearts tumblelog contrasts rivals in a loving heart-shaped embrace.
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This week, reflections on the death of Thomas Kinkade, the real-life location of The Simpsons's Springfield, Ai Weiwei sues Chinese tax collectors, Beijing's "rat tribe," Snarkitecture, a Keith Haring mural is threatened in Paris, a look at Exit art, the average age of social media users and cats im