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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!
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In response to my post on ambient creativity, speaking to how our online creative outlets of Twitter and Facebook might be sapping our ambition for bigger projects, the idea came up that maybe we don't need to seek out masterpieces of these new media. Instead, what about thinking of social media net
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Can you believe your internet? Newst Week is a physical device that gets implanted by pranksters in a specific location, a coffee shop, for example. After connecting to the internet through a local router, the device intercepts wireless signals going to computers and edits the headlines on news webs
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A study by Artprice finds that the Chinese art market is the largest in the world — but only in terms of auctions. The misleading news bite is telling in other ways, though. The Chinese domestic auction market is growing so quickly in part because Western auction houses like Christie's and Sotheby's
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Though the National Museum of Afghanistan is nowhere near running at full capacity and still hasn't recovered many of the artifacts lost from its collections in the upheaval of the past decade, a touring exhibition of some of the museum's signature works is bringing both funding and visibility to a
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This year's Tribeca Film Festival will still be picking winners from a pile of nominated indie and otherwise films, but the best of the best will be getting a different prize this year — works of art. Including the likes of Robert De Niro Sr., Inka Essenhigh and Nate Lowman, it's all about artists g
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Is there such a thing as anti-public seating? We're all used to the presence of urban furniture as an accessible public good, from benches to bike racks and bus shelters. But what happens when the design of these resources is actually anti-user? A public bench in a Philadelphia train station brings