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"Procrastiworking" Your Way to Creative Success
LOS ANGELES — It's hard work being a full-time artist. Sure, outsiders think artists live a free, unencumbered life, full of self-expression and joie de vivre.
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Required Reading
This week, Keith Haring in the Village, painter chic, 10 songs that saved (an artist's) life, Kehinde Wiley's unsettling Israeli show, de Kooning's "source," Monet's ultraviolet vision, Chinese-American photography, architectural stationary and more.
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Bizarre Gun Accident at Met Museum
"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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New Aesthetic Watch: Are We More in Love with the Idea of QR Codes?
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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Tiny Food and Tiny Galaxies
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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New Tumblr Looks at Art in the Process of Installation
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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New Aesthetic Watch: Google BBS
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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NASA Captures the Motion of the Ocean
LOS ANGELES — These visualizations out of NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio, dubbed Perpetual Ocean, show the currents of the oceans.
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"Art Cage!"
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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Getty Launches Pacific Standard Time Archive (Plus Advice for Artists Needing $$)
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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Tantric Paintings: Some Observations
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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Aerial Photos Show Patterns of Life from Above
Photographer Alex MacLean got his pilot's license and has been capturing amazing views from above.