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Your Facebook Laugh for the Day
From pages of Reddit's Funny section emerges this hilarious use of one of Michelangelo's most iconic images from Sistine Chapel on Facebook.
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Required Reading
This week, Keith Haring journals on Tumblr, the follies of suburbanism, looking for Kraftwerk, starchitects in New York, China's architectural gold rush, art critics pick faves, Louise Bourgeois at the Freud Museum, the evolution of the Houston and Bowery "graffiti" wall, the National Gallery of Art
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LACMA's Rocking Social Media Campaign for Levitated Mass
LOS ANGELES —There's a giant rock in town. If you live in Los Angeles, it's almost impossible to ignore this fact. Part of that is because the rock — Michael Heizner’s "Levitated Mass" — blocked traffic on its slow journey to the heart of LA and into the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. But it's ea
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Minimalist Posters Tell Stories at Their Essence
LOS ANGELES — Minimalism, as streamlined and simple as it is, is hard work. How do you boil down the essence of your subject matter and capture that for your audience? Minimalism is an especially challenging task when you're working with pop culture.
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An Ephemeral Cloud You Will Never See Live
LOS ANGELES — Olafur Eliasson turned the Tate's Turbine Hall into a cloud. Doug Wheeler made it feel like we're in a cloud. And now one artist, Berndaut Smilde, is putting a cloud in the gallery.
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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