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Not Everything is Performance Art, People
Today, one writer at The Atlantic has throw her hat into the whole "if it's strange then it must be performance art" line of thinking, which is starting to aggravate me.
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Something That Should Be ART But Isn't
Some things should be art but alas they rrally aren't. This is one of them. Rick Santorum immortalized "in" gay porn.
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A Public Library Made From a Phone Booth
LOS ANGELES — His name is almost too perfect for an artist-architect engaging with urban space. John Locke, not to be confused with the late Father of Liberalism, has been marrying two soon-to-be archaic devices in a charming way. Traveling around Manhattan, he's been carrying objects called books a
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Rollercoasters and Wall Scaling: Two Argentinian Artists Play with the City
LOS ANGELES — Ever wanted to take a roller coaster through Buenos Aires? How about an invisible one? Yeah, me too. Argentinian film director Fernando Livschitz has released a new video of roller coasters cutting through the lovely streets of the country's capital.
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The Problems With the Smithsonian's New Civil Rights History Through Art
Starting with the landmark Plessy v Ferguson case of 1896 and continuing until the 2009 inauguration of the first US President with African heritage, the Smithsonian has launched Oh Freedom! Teaching African American Civil Rights through American Art at the Smithsonian. But why so few women and wher
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Breaking: Getting Drunk and Losing Sleep are Good for Creativity
LOS ANGELES — I know a lot of artists who get drunk a lot. I know a lot of artists who are sleepy half the time. It just so happens that these artists are also very creative.
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Is the Zeitgeist Underground?
We were rather surprised that our Feb 13 post on Christoph Büchel’s "Terminal" project, titled "Artist to Bury an Airplane Underground and Call It Art," was as popular as it was. But what really floored us was that the idea is not original at all and there are two other projects essentially doing th
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Rainy Cityscapes in Paris and Hong Kong
LOS ANGELES — I love the rain, and especially the aesthetic of rain. I always think back to the work of Hiroshige, whose rainy woodcut prints famously inspired Van Gogh's impressionistic landscapes.
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Required Reading
This week, Rem Koolhaas will build Marina's temple to performance art, Gaudí's unfinished masterpiece, Renaissance art murder mystery, a new arts center in Utah, a review of Niall Ferguson’s Civilization, best-designed newspapers, Banksy authentication, drawing with chalk, burger grease and ketchup.
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A Conceptual Symphony of Car Horns Across LA
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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From Our Inbox: Digital Identity Cult
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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Missed the Pacific Standard Time Festival? Watch the YouTube Channel
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