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LOS ANGELES — Spring is upon us, and cherry blossoms are blooming around the world. It's hard to take a bad picture of a cherry blossom, known as sakura in Japan, so how do you take a better one?
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LOS ANGELES — In kindergarten, we learned that sharing is caring, 1+1 is 2, and napping after lunch is a good thing. Most of those lessons from our youthful years still apply, except for that latter one.
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This week, critics weigh in on the new Barnes Foundation museum in central Philadelphia … and in other non-Barnes-related links … discotecture, progressive architectural ideas and the voice of Rene Magritte.
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LOS ANGELES — North Korea has a new website. And as far as I can tell, it's not a parody.
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Lolcats stopped by the office today and asked the staff if they could write a review of a show. It was Friday and we thought … why not!?
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LOS ANGELES — William Miller's new Polaroid project explores the "ruined" photograph.
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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!