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On a recent RT America segment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4ydriHDUU], a Catholic League spokesperson is calling David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" video anti-Christian and compares ants on Jesus to "putting a swastika on a synagogue." The video was part of the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek ex
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Hyperallergic tweep @remaerdyaD pointed out that David Wojnarowicz' video, recently removed from the National Portrait Gallery's Hide/Seek exhibition, has also been flagged as “inappropriate for some users” on YouTube, meaning that viewers will have to sign in to the website and check their safety s
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In light of the recent censorship removal of an ant-covered Jesus video [http://hyperallergic.com/13726/smithsonian-dangerous-precedent/] by the Smithsonian Museum, we wanted to make one thing clear and we couldn't think of a better way to do it then with Johnny Phoenix's "A Note to All the Indigeno
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We already warned you [http://hyperallergic.com/13020/5-projects-hashtagrank-miami/], so it should be no surprise that Paul Steen's art world-ized open source video game based on Assault Cube [http://assault.cubers.net/], but injected with 150 of the "most important living artists" according to Artf
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Man Bartlett's "Kin" during the last day of #TheSocialGraph [../thesocialgraph] exhibition. We will have a photo essay tomorrow and there are a few more podcasts on the way, but last Saturday we threw a closing party for the show, which featured livestreaming of Man Bartlett's "#24hKith [http://manb
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LA art worlders were quick to jump on the New Yorker's recent profile [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/06/101206fa_fact_bruck] of multi-billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad. LATimes art critic Christopher Knight tweeted this article [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cultu
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Think contemporary art's going mainstream? It doesn't end with Louis Vuitton bags and album covers. Joining the cartoon figures and name-brand mascots at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami's signature surreal characters, KaiKai and KiKi, two anime crit
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We already mention [http://hyperallergic.com/12906/italian-pm-gives-roman-statue-a-new-penis/] that the scandal-prone Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's ridiculous request to provide an antique Roman sculpture with a new penis and hand but The Telegraph shows us what the before and after of
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… And just in time for the Miami art fairs! You'll remember Peter Fuss as the Polish artist who posted a billboard of a dead Obama during the 2008 US Presidential campaign, well, now he's taking aim at someone with more art world cred … the king of global gallery domination, Larry Gagosian.
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A not-unexpected surprise awaits visitors to the Miami-based Rubell Family Collection's website [http://www.rfc.museum/]. Scion of collector royalty and son of Don and Mera, Jason Rubell is releasing a catalogue of a show memorializing the works he collected from ages 13 to 21, an illustrious and ma
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Once again, it's time for the annual migration of Winter-bound art worlders to the sunny climes of Miami, Florida for Art Basel Miami Beach. The bad news is that outside of Art Basel Miami's official fair, most of the surrounding events and shows are pretty bad. Good thing Paddy Johnson has your bac