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Ignore the nice moody song and James Franco's disembodied smiling head, and just concentrate on the cheesiness of Kalup Linzy's new music video filled with vagina imagery … Judy Chicago would be proud, or weirded out. Take your pick.
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At Pitti Immagine, one of the largest fashion trade shows in Florence, Dame Vivienne Westwood debuted her second Ethical Fashion Africa Collection in partnership with the International Trade Centre. The first, back in February, was a small offering of three tote bags, but for her sophomore effort sh
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I don't know how I missed this detail in Renaissance art class, but here's a first-hand account of visiting a sexy bathroom in the Papal apartment painted by one of the masters of the High Renaissance.
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This video is a spoof of artist statements. I certainly don't want people to think all artists are like this, but it's too good not to share. Enjoy.
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Jerry Saltz is like the art world's hip uncle. But is he getting too curmudgeonly to hang with the kids? In the critic's recent New York Magazine essay, Saltz calls young artists “Generation Blank” for being not original enough and too digestible by critics — cliche. Meanwhile, other art youth compa
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Khaled Jarrar is stamping the passports of tourists arriving at the West Bank with a voluntary entry stamp for Palestine. This isn't official practice or policy, though. The Palestinian artist is mounting his own form of political protest through a conceptual work of art, seen in a video by NTD TV.
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According to the art world's favorite vlogger, James Kalm, Art in the Streets essayist Carlo McCormick spoke on June 19 at MOCA and Jeffrey Deitch was in the crowd.
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The High Line Section 2 is New York City's latest stab at utopia, so it only makes sense that people love it. But maybe they love it a little too much? Gothamist publishes a photo essay of couples canoodling on the High Line lawn, and all of a sudden, the lawn gets closed for cleaning. Cleaning of w
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You've all heard of the Chinese painters who get paid to make exact copies of the masterpieces of Western art. Well now China is going after entire towns rather than paintings. Architects in Guangdong are planning to make a replica of a scenic Austrian village, as nordic as can be, set right in thei
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Today in the coolest thing ever: designer Asif Khan has created a kind of generative architecture that actually floats. Helium-infused bubbles sprout from pods on the floor, float up towards the ceiling and are caught by nearly invisible fish nets, creating an ethereal canopy.
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I can't believe TMZ is in the art game (you know you're mainstream when … ) but the look on street artist Shepard Fairey's face when his wife offers her take on if he goes out on the street posting stuff anymore is priceless. Ouch.
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Chanel creative director Karl Lagerfeld recently took a break from carving a chocolate effigy of his lover to expand his design skills in a new medium.