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And art continues its march into mainstream pop culture … with the newly released/leaked (who can tell anymore) Kanye West track featuring Jay-Z, “That's My Bitch," which includes the following artful references to Basquiat, Picasso, Mona Lisa, and Larry Gagosian.
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Mark Billy's penis once got stolen, but that didn't bother the intrepid artist. After the sculpture went missing, Billy just made a new one! The replica is on display at #TheSocialGraph, and this time, Billy used some extra protection.
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Last year, when they announced this ridiculous thing called the Rob Pruitt Awards I thought it was a joke: the justification was that it was conceived as a performance-based art work. Come on, give me a break, we're not idiots. First off, an artist slapping his or her name on an award is just bizarr
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In the Guardian, Sam Leith writes an essay [http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/nov/29/world-of-warcraft-sam-leith] on the online multiplayer role-playing game (MMORPG) World of Warcraft, comparing the free experience of wandering through the game's created universe to “a medieval cathedral, a
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A major electronic media copyright issue. Agence France-Presse is arguing that "Twitter’s terms of service allow third parties broad re-use rights to their content, and thus the photographer’s selection of this mode of digital distribution gave AFP a broad license to redistribute the photographer’s
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In a column for Artnet [http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/finch/ai-weiwei-under-arrest11-12-10.asp], veteran art critic and grumbly curmudgeon/cheerleader Charlie Finch responds to Ai Weiwei's recent house arrest with an ultimatum: the art world should stop having anything to do with China.
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Kanye West's intermittent tweets about art always make my day, so you can imagine my joy when I saw this tweet pop up in my feed. Click through for further commentary on Mark Rothko.
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An attacker “brandishing a felt-tipped pen” has vandalized a Basquiat painting on display at Paris' Modern Art Museum, the Daily Mail reports. Yet the victim, a work called “Cadillac Moon 1981,” (seen at left) “is of such an abstract nature that it took at least a few days for experts to notice the
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When Christie’s recently became a sponsor of Hyperallergic, I knew little if anything about Robert Shapazian, whose important contemporary art collection [http://www.christies.com/features/2010-october-the-collection-of-robert-shapazian-1021-1.aspx] was advertised on this site and sold this week. Th
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Despite the 2010 New York Art Book Fair getting quite a fair amount of press attention, photographer and fair participant Alec Soth feels that it wasn't exactly the right kind. His criticism lies not with the fair itself nor with its PR, rather, his opinion that critics don't often go out of their w
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Sometimes I wish a 1000 words could kill a picture. #criticism — William (@Powhida) November 10, 2010 I guess the old adage is wrong, how about 10,000? Art would be so much more fun if words had this kind of power.
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I thought I'd share with you a term that I encountered in my internet wanderings this morning, found in this essay by Dana Ward [http://blog.sfmoma.org/2010/11/dana-ward-on-cory-arcangel/] on artist Cory Arcangel, hat tip to Modern Art Notes' excellent Wednesday link post [http://blogs.artinfo.com/m