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This week, essays and reviews on Occupy and criticism, British Modernism, Herzog's Biennial piece, The Art Newspaper misses the point in Russia, New York's design community is strong, a Triennial review and a look at representations of violence.
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LOS ANGELES — The It Gets Better project. The Born This Way Foundation. These high profile movements powered by celebrities like Lady Gaga aim to reduce bullying in schools. And while statistics tell compelling stories, we often need film to illustrate the challenges. And film can tell us the storie
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LOS ANGELES — QR codes are on the rise. I've spotted them everywhere, from subway ads (yes, we have subway ads in Los Angeles) to billboards to movie posters to business cards. And so they've inevitably cropped up in art.
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Québécois cuisine in New York hasn't been the same after M. Wells Dinette closed in Long Island City. But wait, the boîte will be resurrected as the new cafeteria-ish eatery at MoMA's hipper sister in Queens, PS1. Sure, Rirkrit Tiravanija's curry kitchen, aka "Untitled (Free)" (1992), is feeding gal
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LOS ANGELES — I see them everywhere these days. QR Codes have become a staple the world over, in large advertisements and small handouts in multiple countries. They don't always make sense, but it's impossible to deny their ubiquity.
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LOS ANGELES — I've been with Apple since the very early days, long before the iMac and iPad changed things forever for the company. I still remember the black and white graphical user interface of yesteryear, with flat white folders and a gray trash scan.
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LOS ANGELES — The image above has been making the rounds on social media this week. What you're looking at is a wall in Cairo painted to look like it's not a wall, like it goes through and enters into Tahrir Square.
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LOS ANGELES — The Polaroid is dead. Long live the Polaroid. They used to be a staple at any gathering, and then one day, they weren't. Those tangible remembrances of fine times had soon turned into cell phone camera snaps and then Facebook and Flickr albums. And now they're Instagram pictures.
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The infographic above appeared in the April edition of National Geographic, and it demonstrates that the American addiction to digital images has created a huge surplus of pixels that tell us what most of us already know, people like to take A LOT of photos.
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A commenter, Chicken_Fingers, reminded us about this episode of The Antiques Roadshow from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that aired on January 9, 2012.
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In what can only be called a bizarre turn of events, a defense contract that is trying to turn a South Boston theater into a combat-helmet assembly plant has compared what it is doing to what its artist neighbors do for a living.
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From pages of Reddit's Funny section emerges this hilarious use of one of Michelangelo's most iconic images from Sistine Chapel on Facebook.