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Human Shaped Planes Over New York... Marketing or Art?
Look, up in the sky! It's a bird. No, it's a plane. Wait, it's a, er, marketing campaign?
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Improvements, Met? Yeah, Talk to the Hand.
The Metropolitan Museum's new front plaza will be funded by David "Tea Party" Koch. Ummm…
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Earliest Known Paintings Discovered in Spain
While we once believed that art was the exclusive domain of the more evolved Homo Sapiens Sapiens but the latest find suggests that the earliest known painting was created by Homo Neanderthalensis. So, maybe you should think twice before calling someone a Neanderthal.
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The Latest Video Game Experience on a Skyscraper Near You
LOS ANGELES — For one night, the American Museum of Natural History hosted a new video game. It was a big deal. Literally. Sited in the massive dome at the Hayden Planetarium, Space Cruiser was a multiplayer immersive experience.
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Power of the Paparazzi
"' … anywhere from 50 to 60 percent of images that are sold into media these days are entertainment images,' most of them taken by paparazzi." [SpiegelOnline]
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Required Reading
This week, Catherine Opie fatigue, Yayoi Kusama, David Shrigley, tall buildings and economic downturns, post-structuralism, LA architecture and color theory for kids.
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Animate Your Parties with a 3D Photobooth
LOS ANGELES — It looks like animated GIFs are certainly seeing a renaissance. Shortly after spotting the NYPL's Stereogranimator, I stumbled across Protobooth, an animated GIF photobooth.
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Statue Porn
While learning more about public art, I began to notice a startling trend; it appears that the public possesses an odd affinity toward public works. Aside from the common images of the Statue of Liberty or the popular monuments in Washington, DC, I found image after image of art lovers groping, hump
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Minimal Maps and Tweeted Traffic in the City
LOS ANGELES — It's always interesting to see different schematics for visually approaching a city. So much of how we experience a new place is defined by the map in our heads, and those maps tend to be limited to subway maps and, increasingly, Google Maps.
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How to Make Art and Drink It
LOS ANGELES — Like most gallery goers, I enjoy a good glass of wine with my art. And while wine tasting is an art in itself, I never thought the wine could be transformed into art.
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Artists Kickstarting Their Own Careers
For Co.Design recently, Bruce Nussbaum reflected on the idea of "indie capitalism," a form of small scale, independent capitalism focused more on makers and communities ...
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No Comment: Art Collecting Tips from WSJ
Tip #10: "Be prepared to hang onto the art you buy for some time. One of the major selling points for any work at auction is that it is fresh to the market. Buying today and selling tomorrow is out." The full list is here [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204542404577158551809756644.htm