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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
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QR Code Art Makes Its Way Into the Galleries
LOS ANGELES — QR codes are on the rise. I've spotted them everywhere, from subway ads (yes, we have subway ads in Los Angeles) to billboards to movie posters to business cards. And so they've inevitably cropped up in art.
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PS1 One Ups MoMA's Thai Curry Kitchen With a Québécois Cafeteria
Québécois cuisine in New York hasn't been the same after M. Wells Dinette closed in Long Island City. But wait, the boîte will be resurrected as the new cafeteria-ish eatery at MoMA's hipper sister in Queens, PS1. Sure, Rirkrit Tiravanija's curry kitchen, aka "Untitled (Free)" (1992), is feeding gal
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New Software Helps you Stencil In Your QR Codes
LOS ANGELES — I see them everywhere these days. QR Codes have become a staple the world over, in large advertisements and small handouts in multiple countries. They don't always make sense, but it's impossible to deny their ubiquity.
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Re-imaginging Apple's Classic OS on the iPhone
LOS ANGELES — I've been with Apple since the very early days, long before the iMac and iPad changed things forever for the company. I still remember the black and white graphical user interface of yesteryear, with flat white folders and a gray trash scan.
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Street Artist Paints Away a Wall in Tahrir Square
LOS ANGELES — The image above has been making the rounds on social media this week. What you're looking at is a wall in Cairo painted to look like it's not a wall, like it goes through and enters into Tahrir Square.
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Instaprint Mixes Instagram, Polaroids and Printers
LOS ANGELES — The Polaroid is dead. Long live the Polaroid. They used to be a staple at any gathering, and then one day, they weren't. Those tangible remembrances of fine times had soon turned into cell phone camera snaps and then Facebook and Flickr albums. And now they're Instagram pictures.
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How Many Photos Do Americans Take a Year?
The infographic above appeared in the April edition of National Geographic, and it demonstrates that the American addiction to digital images has created a huge surplus of pixels that tell us what most of us already know, people like to take A LOT of photos.
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A Work by Forrest Bess on the Antiques Roadshow
A commenter, Chicken_Fingers, reminded us about this episode of The Antiques Roadshow from Tulsa, Oklahoma, that aired on January 9, 2012.
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WTF: Defense Contractor Tells Artists, "Our Products Are Art, Too"
In what can only be called a bizarre turn of events, a defense contract that is trying to turn a South Boston theater into a combat-helmet assembly plant has compared what it is doing to what its artist neighbors do for a living.