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Get This Season's It Bag, Courtesy of Leonardo da Vinci
Based upon sketches drawn round the time he worked on "The Last Supper" (15th C.), an Italian fashion house is introducing a new bag designed by the original Renaissance man himself.
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Occupy Dolce & Gabbana
The internet was atwitter this past month when reports broke of protests at Dolce & Gabbana’s Hong Kong flagship over alleged discrimination.
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Artists In the 1%
Let the class-based anxieties begin! The New York Times has published a useful tool to quickly and easily to figure out where you fit into the great pyramid of wealth in this country.
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Professor at Yale Limits Enrollment In Art History Course Due to Internet Concerns
Students at Yale University are enrolling by the hundreds to get into an introductory Art History course this semester, but that's not the big surprise. The real shocker is that professor Alexander Nemerov is turning many of them away.
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Commercialism Fears Plague Colosseum Restoration
Rome wasn’t built in a day and it’s taking even longer to restore. Marred by age, pollution and a poorly placed subway line, the Roman Colosseum’s restoration was supposed to be funded by Diego Della Valle, the president and chief executive of the Italian shoe firm Tod’s, but legal troubles and prot
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Required Reading
This week, Knoedler scandal update, pleasure of art, how Cecil Beaton saved the Queen, Philippe Starck talks creativity/$/sex, rare African art, ringtone drama, Montreal artists remember slain homeless man, Rupert Murdoch's art tweets, NY streets and the capital of Stolen Islamic art.
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Spotty Comments of the Day: Hirst-a-palooza
We've collected some of the most interesting comments we've received on the Hirst spot paintings. Almost everyone hates them but the reasons are always different.
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Damien Hirst's Power to Piss People Off
Like most art writers and enthusiasts, I rolled my eyes when I first heard about Damien Hirst's spotted global Gagosian invasion. Then I started thinking maybe the artist's real artistic strength comes from his unquestionable power to piss people off.
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Is Alfred Steiner's "Erased Schulnik (Diptych)" Copyright Infringement?
Sergio Muñoz Sarmiento of the always interesting Clannco: Art & Law blog has chimed in about our yesterday's post "When Paintings Are Easily Reproduced." He tackles the legal question around Alfred Steiner's "Erased Schulnik (Diptych)" (2010).
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A Dizzying City of the Future Now
Chris Burden's frenetic installation at LACMA "refers specifically to Los Angeles … of the future" but it's more reminiscent of fast-growing megacities, like Chongqing and Dubai.
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Taking the Protest to the Money
What is so common that it can be a platform for your work? One project, Occupy George (as in Washington), has found their solution, money.
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China Wows By Constructing 30-Story Hotel in 360 Hours
This jaw-dropping time-lapse video demonstrates the power of China today.