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Designer Andrea Gallo has created a series of six posters that boil iconic works of architecture down to their minimalist details. The stark, black and white posters cut out silhouettes of the buildings and zoom in, with an eye towards the key elements of famous buildings.
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PBS documentary show Frontline features Alison Klayman's work filming Chinese artist Ai Weiwei's tumultuous past two years. The journalist has followed Ai through art exhibitions and political scandals alike, interviewing the artist and his family as well as the Chinese artistic community in a power
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Architectural criticism takes to the streets in this video walk through of starchitect Zaha Hadid's new opera house in Guangzhou, the capital of Guangdong province in China. Wandering through the structure's alien curves and strange spaces, Guardian architecture critic Jonathan Glancey explains how
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The Brooklyn Museum's newly renovated Great Hall is filled with pirouetting abstract figures made of billowing cloth. This architectural ballet is Brooklyn architecture firm Situ Studio's reOrder, an installation inspired by hoop skirts, but blown up to enormous proportions. reOrder is now on displa
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Japanese author Haruki Murakami's latest book, 1Q84, has become a blockbuster hit in the author's native country, but the English edition is still forthcoming. As a preview, Knopf has released images of the book's cover, by famous graphic designer Chip Kidd. Using transparent vellum as a jacket, the
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Most museums are too expensive to really be what we want them to be: public cultural resources open all the time, to everyone. The Museum of Modern Art, at $20 per ticket for adults, is the target of a lot of complaints. But today, get $40 for $20 at MoMA through Groupon! Now you'll totally donate.
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Every so often an art review riles readers and critics enough to actually respond to it. That’s what happened after New York Times art critic Ken Johnson’s review of the Brooklyn Museum’s Tipi: Heritage of the Great Plains exhibit was published a week and a half ago. Johnson is not shy about stating
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Every Sunday, we bring you a list of links from around the web. This is all the stuff we're reading when we're not writing stuff on the blog for you to read! Got that? This week pulls together video game criticizin', magazine illustratin', apartment decoratin' and wine makin'. No matter what the top
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This is a wonderfully vivid story from the WSJ about the relationship of dealer William Acquavella and artist Lucien Freud and the artist's bookie.
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Ok, some dude buys a painting cuz he likes the frame, turns out it may be Post-Impressionist super-painter Paul Cezanne's earliest painting eva — he would've been a 15 year old art student at the time. Now that people think it's a Cezanne it may be worth £40million. But wait, it's pretty fugly. Disc
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This for your day in art world gossip — Julian Schnabel, past-his-prime 80s neo-expressionist painter and burgeoning filmmaker, got into a screaming match with girlfriend Rula Jebreal over how NBC stylists had done her hair for an appearance on Morning Joe.
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Watch your back, art world. There's a dark force quietly building on the margins, slowly growing strong on a diet of cheap print editions and Tumblr posts. Yes, it's Jen Bekman's Zombie Army, and they're here to EAT YOUR BRAINS sell you art!