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Painting the Vibe of the City Through Data
LOS ANGELES — Every city has a mood, a vibe and Lu Xinjian's City DNA series tries to capture it.
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Why I Love Twitter … and @DKleinGallery @BetsyEby @TheBoBartlett and @Alyssamonks
From Twitter to real life. My story.
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A Space to Play, Literally, with Materials and Shape
LOS ANGELES — There are giant balloons at the Pacific Design Center (PDC). And if you can make your way bravely past them, you'll come across rolls of Tyvek strung around the walls, and a few skirts, capes and shawls that you can throw around yourself.
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Photos from the Margins of Chinese Cities
LOS ANGELES — One thing many Americans notice about first-tier Chinese cities like Beijing and Shanghai is that there are very few homeless people. Indeed, life on the margins in major Chinese cities often means life literally on the margins, away from the public eye.
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Photos of Couples Switching Outfits
LOS ANGELES — Some couples start to dress and look like each other over time, adopting each other's personal styles and looks. Vancouver photographer Hana Pesut has set out to explore that visual relationship.
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Why Grammar Matters in Street Art
Street artist Above intended to make a strong anti-blood diamond statement with a mural on the facade of Johannesburg's largest diamond exporter but it just sounds sexist.
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Could Wearing a Painter's Coat Make You a Better Painter?
An interesting article in the New York Times pointed at research that suggests that if we think differently when wearing a white coat that belongs to a painter vs. one that belongs to a doctor.
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A Snow Angel for the Digital Age
Dominic Harris's Ice Angel project takes the fun of snow angels and brings it into the digital realm.
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David Lynch's Art Doesn't Suck
After Gagosian collected Bob Dylan into his roster of artist for an underwhelming exhibition in his Upper East Side gallery, it's hard to take these celebrity-turned-artists seriously.
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Cai Guo-Qiang's Explosive West Coast Debut
LOS ANGELES — We were all gathered outside the Museum of Contemporary Art's Geffen Contemporary space near the Arts District, waiting patiently for the show to start. We'd lined up around the block, and I quietly wondered when things would get going and suddenly it seemed like a giant fireball was h
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Facebook Acquires Instagram for $1B
Today, Facebook announced that it has acquired the hugely popular smartphone photo-sharing app, Instagram, and in the process further consolidating its position as the biggest visual archive in the world.
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Required Reading
This week, the New Aesthetic, the Steins, Creative Time's mission to push culture forward, Yung Jake's Embedded, Eggleston goes from photography to contemporary art, Klaus Biesenbach's tweets, Kickstarter vs NEA, art on The Simpsons and more.