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When Advertising Follows Art
Sometimes advertising follows art, and this is one of those times. Presenting Doug Aitkens' "Migration" (2008) and a very recent commercial for Residence Inn (2012).
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The Corporate Sponsorship of Baby X
Yesterday, Bushwick artist Marni Kotak emailed a video of her baby, Baby X (aka Ajax), and the announcement that he has a new corporate sponsorship tattoo.
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Required Reading
This week, Koons' hanging train, Mona Lisa dates change, Bloomberg gets its name on Hirshhorn balloon, 20 must-see artist websites, the exit of Exit Art, the Dictionary of American Regional English is complete, 60 Minutes to tackle contemporary art and more …
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Pentametron Pulls Together Iambic Verse from Twitter
LOS ANGELES — Twitter is filled with poetry everyday. The short, pithy updates of 140 characters represent an ideal format for short-form verse, whether that be haiku or heroic couplets. Or, as it turns out, iambic pentameter.
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Play With Your Food... and Make Music
LOS ANGELES — You know what they say, there's always room for a Jello orchestra. Two Paris-based artists, Marianne Cauvard and Raphaël Pluvinage, have taken playing with your food the next level with a new game with everyone's favorite gelatinous material.
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A Look at China's Second Tier Cities
LOS ANGELES — Beijing and Shanghai get all the press, but China's art scene extends far beyond its most famous cities. Guangzhou, for instance, best known as a thriving port city, also hosts its own triennial and is home to popular photographer Cao Fei.
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New Book to Explore the Science and Benefits of Creative Ruts
LOS ANGELES — As a creative person, I've been looking forward to taking some time to read Jonah Lehrer's new book, Imagine: How Creativity Works. Lehrer, a prolific and popular writer bridging science, the arts and the rest of us, has set out with this book to explore "the new science of creativity.
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Clement Greenberg in Tweetable Form
The fad for fake art personas has passed. They were soo 2010, though they lingered into 2011. Perhaps tired of the fakery, someone has decided to rekindle the words of the maestro of Modernism into 140 characters or less, @Clem_Greenberg.
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The Gagosian Gallery Email the Art World Can't Get Enough Of
We all know that Gagosian Gallery is the Death Star of the art world. They are perceived as the enemy of any art-loving person who doesn't want to think about dollar signs with their art, well, unless they're silkscreened by Warhol on canvas. And now The New York Times' Randy Kennedy has done us all
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Photos from the Alien Landscape of Socotra
LOS ANGELES — Socotra. Most of us have never heard of it. Officially part of the Republic of Yemen, the island has long been isolated geologically from the rest of the world.
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Required Reading
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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New Film Explores Bullying in Schools
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