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2011.Has.Been.Our.Best.Year.Ever. This has been a year full of discontent, which is our specialty, so it was natural that we were kept busy documenting, tracking and commenting on events around the world. Take a look at what we found when we looked back on the
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Happy Festivus everyone! What is Festivus? It is a secular holiday celebrated on December 23 as a way to celebrate the holiday season without participating in its pressures and commercialism. It was popularized by Seinfeld.
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A good segment by The Glass House invites 1980s art superstar David Salle to the compound in New Canaan, Connecticut to explain how his works got into Philip Johnson's collection.
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Gallerist NY got a hold of a leaked version of the 2012 Whitney Biennial artist list and they've posted it online. There's no big surprises here.
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Booooooom invited their readers to recreate their favorite paintings or photos using photography. The results are pretty creative.
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This week, new Banksy, artists/writers design money, early Christian art, talking to Gabriel Orozco, catalogue raisonnés, modern art toilets, globalizing art history, design criticism and political photo trends.
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Now you don't even have to be a part of the 1% to make art enthusiasts with strong opinions wild with fury this holiday season — just buy them the scale model of Jeff Koon's flashy car.
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This mirage-like structure is Sou Fujimoto's winning proposal for the Taiwan Tower International Competition. Designed for Taichung in west-central Taiwan, the unusual park rises 1,000 feet above the cityscape.
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The Holiday season is going at full speed but there's still time to inoculate yourself with art to save you from the endless parties, family gatherings and other affairs that force you to eat, drink and be merry. This.Is.Your.Last.Chance.
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From the desk of the always brilliant Grant Snider is this clever take on the starchitect.
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Some cities have clocks, lights that will tell you if it's raining or LED screens that tell you the temperature outside, but this project by artists Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer may be the first to tell people the mood of a city.
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People often comment on how people and their pets lookalike but usually they're not talking about fish. In his Evolution series, photographer Ted Sabarese captures carefully composed images of people with the fish they resemble — no, they're not pets. Even though the concept sounds peculiar the resu