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"What really dismays me … is how three major organizations [Time, Toronto Star & New York Times] could send out three of the best photographers in the business and, within the space of just over two weeks, proudly publish nearly the same photo-story … Is this pure coincidence? Or, does it illustrat
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The Left Rights's "I'm on Crack" — Souren Melikian on 20th C Italian figural artists — Glenn Lowry speaks about new plans to expand the MoMA — the 10 best British buildings of the 21st C — Peter Saul interview in the Brooklyn Rail — From the Archives: "How I Got My DIt Degree" — Grayson Perry talks
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And here we thought the Brits were all repressed about their sexuality. London's famed Fourth Plinth, a sculptural pedestal left empty after funds ran out in the 19th century, has played host to sculptures by Rachel Whiteread and other British art world lights. In 2013, the pedestal will have a GIAN
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"I was really upset this morning when I found out that Urban Outfitters has STOLEN the work of street artist Cali Killa." — According2g.com I'm a bit torn on this issue since I don't know if an artist who uses public space to display their art (often illegally) has the right to tell someone else the
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Botticelli's original “The Birth of Venus” is hanging in a soul-stirring gallery in Florence's Uffizi Gallery, a masterpiece of delicately painted elongated figures and an icon of art history. This 8-bit version of the painting by PixelJam [http://www.pixeljam.com/]'s Rich Grilloti is sitting right
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Inspired by our image-saturated culture, French artist Leo Caillard has reimagined the Louvre as a digital library, while James Elkins has compiled some real stats about how long people actually look at art in museums.
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Ai Weiwei is a media sensation, and that's not a bad thing. The artist’s pioneering works, relentless activism and life-broadcasting on Twitter and other media have turned Ai the artist into Ai the figurehead. His role as a pioneer of contemporary Chinese art in the Western world, taking on landmark
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To all those haters who claim they just don’t get Jackson Pollock, or that the painter’s Abstract Expressionist canvases have started to look stale: here’s something to get your attention. A slow-motion video of flung paint shows the real drama behind Pollock’s paintings.
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Last week, the "first real inauguration of the [Konbit Shelter] community center with workshops and events brought by Ayiti Resurrect and Ayiti Cherie Healing" took place in Bigones, Haiti. Spearheaded by Brooklyn-based artist Swoon, the Konbit Shelter Project was created with the idea that a group
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Production outfit The Third & The Seventh has made a movie that allows us to experience architecture better than ever before, showing iconic buildings in multiple perspectives simultaneously and suffusing them with soft, unearthly light. Viewers would be excused for thinking that these clips were sh
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Graphic designer James Reynolds recreated the final meals of nine American prisoners executed between 1963 and 2006, then photographed each on an inmate-orange cafeteria tray.
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Apparently Egypt is starting to get jealous of Greece and wants to repatriate Cleopatra's Needle, the trophy of cultural dominance granite stele that's been festooning Central Park since 1881. Too bad 129 years is totally long enough for finders keepers! Here are five reasons Egypt won't get their s