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If you’re like me then you’re probably kicking yourself that you were unable to attend MoMA design curator Paola Antonelli’s talk as part of the Swissmiss Creative Mornings series. Thankfully Soulellis Studio blogged about the affair and shared their notes, which include some really interesting high
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Did a tiny ceramic chip covered with original drawing by artists Andy Warhol, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, David Novros, John Chamberlain, and Forrest Myers travel to the moon with the Apollo 12 lunar module in November 1969. PBS’ History Detectives investigates …
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Just in time for tonight’s premiere of the trashy reality TV series (wait, that may be redundant) Work of Art, is a new web app to help you separate the wheat from the chaff, the Art School Cliché detector!
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The Arizona Republic reports, “A group of artists has been asked to lighten the faces of children depicted in a giant public mural at a Prescott school. The project's leader says he was ordered to lighten the skin tone after complaints about the children's ethnicity.”
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“Artist” is a loosely defined term, but when DJ Diplo accused M.I.A. of not really being an artist he missed the point. I would argue that knowing “ … how to manipulate, how to withhold, how to get what she wants,” is part of being an artist.
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Thanks to artist Mark Jenkins, life just got a little more complicated than it used to be. In addition to the age-old dilemma of “Is it art?” we are now forced to confront the question “Is it street art?”
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Milwaukee has a Holocaust memorial but now some members of the city’s Jewish community want another one … one that is uplifting. Critic Robin Cembalest discusses [http://www.tabletmag.com/arts-and-culture/34365/monumental-dilemma/] this and other trends in the world of memorials.
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New York Magazine explains how people get to sit with artist Marina Abramović in her MoMA atrium work titled, “The Artist Is Present” (2010), and it makes me rather mad. I will admit that I personally have Abramović fatigue but the fact that she’s far from accessible makes me dislike a work by her t
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We all know that money doesn’t mean taste, and taste doesn't earn you any money, but according to two three major corporate overlords (Goldman Sachs and IBM and Deutsche Bank) the artist of choice for capitalists is abstract artist Julie Mehretu.
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When people start telling other people what they can and cannot draw then we have a problem. Yesterday’s “Everyone Draw Mohammed Day!” made it clear that some religious fundamentalists need to be told to mind their own business and stop policing other people’s culture.
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How many urinals by Marcel Duchamp are there? Turns out there are at least 17. Greg Allen of Greg.org points out that fact and takes the piss [sorry, couldn’t resist] out of Washington Post critic Blake Gopnik for his recent review of “Stolen Pieces” (1995-97) at Postmasters’ Reality is Overrated sh
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Kagan can appreciate opera but not visual art? Let's hope that's not true, because as MJ Andersen blogs, “A discerning eye does more than keep a judge well-rounded. It keeps her responsive to what she beholds, and to all that resists interpretation.”