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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
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MOCA has emailed their version of why the Blu mural came down to Vandalog, the street art blog. We discover that Deitch was involved in the removal of the mural but some questions remain …
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John Richardson, the art historian who has written (and is still writing) the definitive Picasso biography, has published his thought on Vanity Fair's website on the recently discovered Picassos in the possession of Pierre Le Guennec, Picasso's electrician. He writes, "Picasso would never, in my opi
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As the Smithsonian censorship of David Wojnarowicz's “A Fire in My Belly” video continues to make waves, it's important to remember that the decision was made not by National Portrait Gallery staff, but by the absentee Smithsonian secretary. A leaked memo drafted by Portrait Gallery director Martin
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I can't remember the last time so many bold faced art names were on mainstream television. Last night, Stephen Colbert tried to convince well-known art collector Steve Martin to buy his René Magritte-like portrait but it wasn't an easy sell. Colbert soon marched on some major artists to make it more
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Rob Maguire, who is the founder and editor of Art Threat [http://artthreat.net/], a Canadian blog devoted to exploring political art and showcasing artists whose work inspires social change, hurled out this nugget during a recent online "water cooler" hosted by The National Post newspaper about art
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We've all been curious about what David Wojnarowicz' video looks like installed in the lobby of the New Museum. Well, check it out! Click through for more photos.