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LOS ANGELES — Unlike the bright cities that surround them, rivers are usually dark spots at night, recognizable only as absences between well-lit buildings and highways. That’s what makes the image of 100,000 LED lights floating on Tokyo’s Sumida River so evocative. Installed during the Tokyo Hotaru
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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles, like New York, is a city of migrants. You move to LA in search of something. For many people, that's Hollywood or the music business; for others, it's the city's growing art scene. In makeshift studios and homes across the city, artists and creatives are working hard to ma
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LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum announced that 1stfans, the museum world's first socially networked membership, would be coming to a close after more than three years of great programming.
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Artist John Baldessari asked Tom Waits to narrate his short history and it's pretty funny.
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The Getty Museum has come up with a video to demonstrate how to save your precious sculptures during an earthquake. Thanks, Getty!
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You have to wonder if something is edgy anymore if a fashion label can quickly flip the "transgression" into merchandise within a few days. Case in point … Kidult v. Marc Jacobs.
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This week, face recognition software may help art historians solve mysteries, Picasso's lover gets a Gagosian show, the New Aesthetic debate continues, the French elections and art, street art in Houston, Kiki Smith interviews Jenny Holzer and more.
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Talk about art going big: the New York Times reported last night that the Whitney will mount an enormous Jeff Koons retrospective as its last hurrah in the Breuer building, before moving downtown in 2015. Probably out of necessity as much as for flair, the exhibition will take over the entire museum
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The Hartford Courant reports that one of the world's great unsolved art thefts may have a new lead.
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Where are the arts donors and why aren't they pressuring Washington?
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It seems fitting that artist Yayoi Kusama's characteristic polka dots appear in a children's book and in the trippy Alice in Wonderland no less.