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As far as the year in social media goes, Twitter is far and away my choice for a handy source of updates, information and air-testing inside the art world or out. Pretty much anything that you want to know about gets broadcast into your Twitter stream with a good enough group of follows. To the end
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Critic, writer and independent game developer Ian Bogost has created a suite of four games entitled “A Slow Year.” Comprised of a set piece about each of the four seasons, Bogost has made video games into meditations, interactive haiku meant to slow down the player instead of them speed up. Kotaku [
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This video was produced for MoMA's ninth installment of the Performance Exhibition Series [http://www.moma.org/visit/calendar/exhibitions/1124], which features Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, more commonly referred to as Allora & Calzadilla, and the staging of their haunting performance "S
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The Little Artists, now known as Cake & Neave, turn iconic works of art into tiny lego sculptures. In one series, the duo create artist portraits like this one of Jeff Koons, featured with his (basket)balls. This isn't the Made in Heaven series, people!
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If it looks like lighting, smells like lighting and lights things up, it's probably lighting! At least so says the European Commission in an argument over whether or not the work of Dan Flavin and Bill Viola qualify as art. They don't think so, and express their criticisms in a series of hilarious q
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The scandal that erupted when the Smithsonian's secretary G. Wayne Clough decided to remove David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition under Republican political pressure shows no sign of calming down. Only in the past week, the Warhol Foundati
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The Bygone Bureau's Jimmy Chen imagines what it would be like if Picasso had used eBay [http://bygonebureau.com/2010/12/15/picassos-ebay-period/]. Hilarity ensues. Great line, "bitch i’m trying to make a living. check out my new painting."
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Now the man who gave us Hope and then made us Hope-less is weighing in on the Blu mural controversy [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/shepard-fairey-weighs-in-on-mocas-mural-controversy.html] and it's rather embarrassing. The good part …
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MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch has finally broken his silence and spoken to the Los Angeles Times over the recent whitewashing of the Blu wall commissioned for the upcoming Art in the Streets exhibition, which will be the first major US museum show featuring street art.
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Some of us have been thinking the [http://twitter.com/hragv/status/13681350116638721] same thing [http://community.nytimes.com/comments/artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/13/los-angeles-museum-of-contemporary-art-deems-mural-inappropriate/?permid=3#comment3]. Since the art world depends on tight-lip
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If you haven't been living under a rock or in a place without wi-fi for the past two weeks, you know that the proverbial shit has hit the proverbial fan in the art world. From cases of censorship to the forced alteration of several exhibitions, it's definitely been a good month for news, if not for
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Word is that the Warhol Museum is releasing a new Warhol app (iPhone only for way) that allows users to transform photos into silkscreens that create their own versions of art that resemble the Pop master. But you don't have to wait for the official version since there are many unofficial ones alrea