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LOS ANGELES — This week, New York artist Zefrey Throwell flew in to create the Entropy Symphony, a series of aural interventions around the world. The LA edition was an orchestrated movement in five parts of some 1,000 cars across the Southland. Each participant received an mp3 attuned to their car
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It's Friday, so it's time to sort through our inbox and find some of the most unusual and bizarre things we've received this week. And we think we have a winner. If there was a cult of art coaches, this would be their orientation video.
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LOS ANGELES — Pacific Standard Time, the major celebration of California's artistic heritage, recently hosted the Pacific Standard Time Festival, a curated selection of performance and public art throughout Los Angeles. Fortunately for those of you not based in Los Angeles, there's YouTube, and the
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LOS ANGELES — Remember the cool You Are Listening To web site I recommended you check out? Founder Eric Eberhardt emailed me to let me know he's launching a Kickstarter project to get an iPhone app developed and out the door.
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LOS ANGELES/BEIJING — The sanlunche (三轮车), or tricycle, is ubiquitous in Beijing. A cart dragged along by either a human-powered or electric-powered bicycle, it zips around alleyways and highways alike, carting whatever it is the rider placed in back.
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On the occasion of the Ellsworth Kelly: Prints and Drawings exhibition at LACMA, the museum has posted a four-minute segment from a longer conversation between the artist and curators Stephanie Barron and Britt Salvesen.
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LOS ANGELES — Have you ever stood in front of a painting and just wished you could reach out and touch it? Imagine dipping your finger in Monet's lilies and watching them shimmer and come to life as you wave your hand.
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May this video put an end to the idea that Dada is all about impractical fun and games. It seems that Marcel Duchamp, like Leonardo da Vinci, was just ahead of his time.
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Christoph Buchel's "Terminal" in Kern County (a few hours north of LA) was just approved, and Buchel will be purchasing a hulking 727 and burying it underground.
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This week, VIP art fair, Gugg Berlin closing, Lucian Freud and Yayoi Kusama in London, ideology and housing projects, biodegradable Legos, elderly hipsters (circa 2062) talk about social media and Murakami in Qatar.
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LOS ANGELES — We "check in" on Foursquare much like we "check in" on flights, so why not display our Foursquare activity in classic airline style?
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This progressive tech company is jettisoning the generic avatar in favor of a zippy new abstracted face.