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I've never thrown a beer bottle across a room but I've definitely seen one break. The pieces shatter and scatter, and like a laundry detergent commercial, I wish I could just hit the rewind button and see it all come back together. Brooklyn-based artist Jonathan Schipper taps into this desire with a
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Playing to the idea of subway as symphony, Brooklyn-based Alexander Chen has tapped the MTA's train schedule and mapped it over time with Massimo Vignelli's classic (and beloved) subway map … and added music.
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Sure there was collage and assemblage before him, but what Pop artist James Rosenquist did in the 1960s is probably closer to our contemporary sensibilities about remix culture with its flattening of disparate images using a similar aesthetic to unify jarring visuals.
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Yayoi Kusama seems to reinforce popular notions of the artist who battles with some form of madness.
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Floating around Twitter and Sina Weibo as of late has been my new favorite blog, Yowayowa Camera Woman Diary. Lifted to the web by Tokyo-based photographer Natsumi Hayashi, the diary features a series of "daily levitations," as Hayashi drifts through the hustle and bustle of her city.
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A spotted judgment pops up on the streets of Paris. And someone goes in stoned (we think) to the Hirst show in LA.
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The Brit-gone-LA artist was grabbing headlines earlier this month for his supposed swipe against Damien Hirst but now it's his turn to take criticism from someone who knows his work, a former professor.
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This week, an unfinished masterpiece, artists on Facebook, Guggenheim's free online catalogues, Okwui Enwezor lectures on art and civic imagination, Russian space, nasty ancient graffiti and much more …
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Last night's "Confronting Bushwick" was attended by roughly 120 people and there are already two excellent reports published online about the event … not to mention the tweets.
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This morning, I received the following image of a press release from a Berlin gallery show and I was speechless.
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Ah, the mysteries of the creative process. Now an infographic by Viruscomix shows its twists and turns in a labyrinthine landscape. Is it accurate?
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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.