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That New York Times staff photographer Damon Winter won third place in Pictures of the Year International's Feature Picture Story competition for his photo essay A Grunt's Life isn't surprising. The series of images shows an eloquent portrayal of daily life in a war zone for US troops in and out of
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We all knew Young British Artist Tracey Emin isn't afraid to say what's on her mind. From making her unmade bed into an art installation to appliqueing the name of everyone she's ever slept with on a tent, no one can say Emin doesn't bare it all. In this 1999 interview Emin gets even more personal:
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This week on Required Reading … a look back to Napoleon in Egypt … a history of mural whitewashing in Los Angeles … the preservation of the Watts Towers … Steven Heller tracks dowing the master style guide to the Master Race … what is "The Future of Art" … are you ready for the Singularity?
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You've seen it before with heroin bags, but now check out a typology of a different, (potentially) less dangerous sort. Here's a collection of vintage condoms, from wrappers and “envelopes” to actual tins, which look really cool. The branding is the funniest part-- would you buy a condom called “Sed
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The Boston art media are getting into a tiff, arguing if the newly redesigned ICA Boston is irrelevant-on-arrival. The Diller Scofidio+Renfro-designed home has actually heralded a new high point for a museum that is becoming one of the Northeast's most dynamic, interesting contemporary art instituti
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Belgian industrialist Guy Ullens is the most important international collector of Chinese contemporary art, amassing an encyclopedic collection and opening a contemporary art museum in Beijing. Now he's selling off a part of that collection at Sotheby's. Here's why the sale is important.
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The Blu/MOCA whitewash censorship incident isn't going away as some street artists continue to draw attention to LA MOCA director Jeffrey Deitch's lapse in judgment.
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You know it was hilariously inevitable that someone was going to cruise the walls of Google Art Project checking out the hotties and collect them all into one place. Well, Chicago Now blogga Taleen Kelenderian just did that and she has labeled her favorites with such hipster-ific monikers as "Ginger
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Happy Chinese New Year! The Year of the Rabbit began this month, and fireworks have been rocketing off in Chinese cities ever since. In celebration, Chinese artist Ai Weiwei’s FAKE design office has created a contemporary version of a Chinese New Year’s tradition: Door Gods for 2011 (seen above). Th
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Richard Serra may be best known for his curving steel wall sculptures, but his earlier works erred even more on the side of conceptually abstract. The artist's 1967 “Verb List Compilation: Actions to Relate to Oneself” kicked off a body of work in which a single verb directly translated into art. Ch
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According to Leah Sandals's charticle over at This Magazine, titled "Admission Impossible," the answer to that question may be Toronto. Gaze at her chart and be amazed.
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Hey readers, I'm Janelle, the managing editor of the Hyperallergic LABS tumblelog. For the un-initiated, “tumblelog” is the name for a blog hosted on the free platform Tumblr, which utilizes a fairly simple interface for short-form posts. Images are often the most popular posts on Tumblr, but text a