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In this 1985 documentary on the artist, made while he was still very much alive, Francis Bacon talks through one of his most iconic works and explains how he makes paintings. The artist also slowly gets very drunk and discusses the beauty of the word “voluptuous.”
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This week's Required Reading has links to the garb needed to paint in the arctic, Jasper Johns and orgies, an interview with artist Sharon Hayes, a handwritten transcript by Diego Rivera, artist Cao Fei on the unsung factory workers of the Pearl River Delta and Japanese shut-ins.
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Sebastian Buck of Unurth, which is arguably the premiere street art photo blog, has a lot of visual goodies from LA MOCA's Art in the Streets show. He also has some very interesting thoughts on the show, which officially opens tomorrow:
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American politics has always been deeply connected to spectacle. Yesterday, Rep. Joe Crowley (D-NY) delivered a one-minute "speech" on the floor of the House of US Reps and it was pure art.
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Fair use is a term we hear bandied about all the time nowadays (Shepard Fairey vs. AP, Patrick Cariou vs. Richard Prince, etc.), but what is it really? The library of the University of Minnesota wants to help you out.
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In his final column for Frieze, writer, painter and star curator Robert Storr calls art writers (himself included) “bottom feeders,” and constructs an elaborate metaphor for writers as the “squid” of the art world — swimming in their own ink. This is the “cruel, Darwinian truth,” says Storr, yet the
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Jason Eppink describes himself online as an "Urban Alchemist, Rapid Prototyper, Mischief Maker," so it should come as no surprise that he stirred things up during his February 24 lecture at the Museum of Arts and Design with a water gun fight.
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Raise your hand if you're not surprised that LA's Museum of Contemporary Art is getting tagged by a whole bunch of graffiti writers because of the upcoming Art in the Streets show? Well, Katsu is doing his part on the heels of an attention-grabbing faux MoMA/Nike ad series he pulled off in New York
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A few years ago, I was invited by photographer and Flickr superuser Thomas Hawk to join his DMU (Deleteme Uncensored) Flickr group, which allows users to post photos for voting by fellow users. But someone played a trick and submitted a photo by Henri Cartier-Bresson as their own and the resulting c
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Tamsin Nutter and Brigitta Bungard of the Museum of Modern Art have put together a project that exposes that other, non-curatorial, side of the museum world — the viewers' experiences. For a few days in February, they placed stations with pads of paper and pens in MoMA's galleries for guests to jot
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Artist Ahmed Basiony was to represent Egypt in the 2011 Venice Biennale in an exhibition at the country's national pavilion, curated by Shady El Noshokaty. Yet the artist will now be representing his country's art community posthumously — Basiony died in gunfire in Tahrir Square while documenting th
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This morning, LA Anonymous unveiled their latest work, a circus-inspired poster installed on the north-facing wall of Zip Fusion Sushi in downtown LA, near Little Tokyo. Titled “Art in the Streets” (2011), the poster by LA Anonymous appears a week before MOCA LA director Jeffrey Deitch's Art in the