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LA Museum Buys Painting of 18th C Actors
I guess we should be expect an LA museum to acquire a painting of actors but this one might be by the great 18th C. French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
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What If Our Clothes Mimicked Animals?
LOS ANGELES — I recently stumbled across the work of Los Angeles artist Amisha Gadani, an artist-in-residence at a science lab in UCLA. Gadani has created a series of "interactive wearables" that mimic the protective features of animals in a fun way, marrying fashion with science.
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Covering Geopolitical Tensions with Bedcovers
LOS ANGELES — Tucked away in a small corner at LACMA is a new show: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping. Culled together from the museum's permanent collection, the works consist of embroidery inspired by printed paper works.
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Twitter Portraits of Rupert Murdoch
Artist Michelle Vaughan continues to render tweets into letterpress. Her 100 Tweets project was the first to give the quips of the twitteratti some permanence in print but now the queen of the twitter press has created a small series devoted to the dark lord of right-wing news media himself, Rupert
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Smithsonian Channel Unveils a Great New iPad App
LOS ANGELES — New in the Apple Store this month is the Smithsonian Channel's iPad app, which lets you play videos from the Channel's extensive programming. It includes short clips for a quick burst of knowledge during the day, as well as longer documentaries for an extended viewing.
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Choice Quotes from Damien Hirst's Guardian Interview
Some notable quotations from this Guardian interview with the richest artist in the world — his wealth is estimated at £215m (approx. $336m) …
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Artist Visualizes the Waves from Thousands of Miles Away
LOS ANGELES — We have so many ways of remotely viewing the world. From webcams of zoo animals to data sets about weather, it's so easy these days to take a peek at what's happening somewhere else. I recently came across "Tele-Present Water," an installation by artist David Bowen that taps into data
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Required Reading
This week is an ALL VIDEO Required Reading. From the GIF to Dali, from Cindy Sherman to the anthropology of YouTube, this is the way to spend a leisurely Sunday.
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Flapping Wings Perched on Your Finger
LOS ANGELES — Most of us want to fly. And while we've generally figured out that human beings best fly through a gliding mechanism, Leonardo Da Vinci famously tried to mimic the way so many other animals fly but he never did get off the ground.
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¬_¬ A New Emojicon Library! ( ˘ ³˘)♥
LOS ANGELES — I don't know about you, but sometimes :) and :( just don't cut it. Happy and sad? That's it? There are so many more human emotions, with nuances between anger and frustration, surprise and elation. Perhaps this is what's behind the hype around emoji for iPhone: finally, a better way to
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Is it Possible to Occupy the Homes of the 1% With Art?
In the Armory Modern section of this year's Armory Art Fair, a work by Chilean artist Sebastian Errazuriz has taken the typography of wording of Occupy Wall Street signs and printed them as black lettering onto pristine white folding chairs. The effect was immediately disturbing but the artist's exp
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Yes Men Spoof NYPD, McDonald’s with Stop-and-Frisk Video
Activists/artivists/culture jammers The Yes Men released an ingenious new parody this morning called “Three Strikes, You’re In!”