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This week, whither Santa Fe? a newbie goes to the Miami art fairs, Marina Abramović makes German men cry, Elmgreen & Dragset Fourth Plinth sculpture unveiled, UK's guerrilla tree sculptor and more.
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Occupy Wall Street Gets a New Logo
In their quest for a unified logo, the Occupy Movement sifted through 8,319 submissions from 1,591 designers until they agreed upon a minimal design by maspoji™ — and no, we're not sure if the trademark symbol is ironic or not.
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Sign of the Times: Kickstarter Expects to Raise More Money for the Arts than NEA
"One of the company’s three co-founders, Yancey Strickler, said that Kickstarter is on track to distribue over $150 million dollars to its users’ projects in 2012, or more than entire fiscal year 2012 budget for the National Endowment of the Arts (NEA), which was $146 million." [TalkingPointsMemo [h
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The Shoes That Almost Started a Riot
These Obsidian/Anthracite-Black fugly things are responsible for a potential mall riot in Orlandso, Florida? Yes, that's right. The release of Nike Air Foamposite One NRG “Galaxy” inspired a 1,000 people to show for the sale of the glow-in-the-dark sole sneakers.
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Not Everything is Performance Art, People
Today, one writer at The Atlantic has throw her hat into the whole "if it's strange then it must be performance art" line of thinking, which is starting to aggravate me.
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Something That Should Be ART But Isn't
Some things should be art but alas they rrally aren't. This is one of them. Rick Santorum immortalized "in" gay porn.
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A Public Library Made From a Phone Booth
LOS ANGELES — His name is almost too perfect for an artist-architect engaging with urban space. John Locke, not to be confused with the late Father of Liberalism, has been marrying two soon-to-be archaic devices in a charming way. Traveling around Manhattan, he's been carrying objects called books a
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Rollercoasters and Wall Scaling: Two Argentinian Artists Play with the City
LOS ANGELES — Ever wanted to take a roller coaster through Buenos Aires? How about an invisible one? Yeah, me too. Argentinian film director Fernando Livschitz has released a new video of roller coasters cutting through the lovely streets of the country's capital.
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The Problems With the Smithsonian's New Civil Rights History Through Art
Starting with the landmark Plessy v Ferguson case of 1896 and continuing until the 2009 inauguration of the first US President with African heritage, the Smithsonian has launched Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian. But why so few women and wher
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Breaking: Getting Drunk and Losing Sleep are Good for Creativity
LOS ANGELES — I know a lot of artists who get drunk a lot. I know a lot of artists who are sleepy half the time. It just so happens that these artists are also very creative.
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Is the Zeitgeist Underground?
We were rather surprised that our Feb 13 post on Christoph Büchel’s "Terminal" project, titled "Artist to Bury an Airplane Underground and Call It Art," was as popular as it was. But what really floored us was that the idea is not original at all and there are two other projects essentially doing th
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Rainy Cityscapes in Paris and Hong Kong
LOS ANGELES — I love the rain, and especially the aesthetic of rain. I always think back to the work of Hiroshige, whose rainy woodcut prints famously inspired Van Gogh's impressionistic landscapes.