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You know how everyone’s claiming to be an artist these days? Make-up technicians, hairdressers, gallerists, your kid sister, that crazy aunt who does crocheted landscapes? Yeah? Well now even plants are getting in on the game. British artist Tim Knowles attaches pens to the tips of tree branches and
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This story keeps getting better and better … first, PS1 chief curator Klaus Biesenbach told David Byrne that Lady Gaga wasn’t an artist [http://hyperallergic.com/4960/david-byrne-klaus-biesenbach-lady-gaga/], then Byrne retracted the quote [http://hyperallergic.com/5151/biesenbach-gaga-is-an-artist/
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After our post about one image in Mauricio Cattelan’s W Magazine portfolio, which bares an uncanny resemblance to the work of artist Matthieu Lavancy, we discovered that that this may not be the first time the fashion magazine poached ideas from the art world. You be the judge.
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Imitation may be the highest form of flattery but artist Mauricio Cattelan’s recent photo shoot for W Magazine has an obvious — and unattributed — reference to the work of another artist, Matthieu Lavanchy. We’re curious how that happened.
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Remember that insane story about the Virginia attorney general Ken Cuccinelli handing out new lapel pins to staff with the state seal covered up with an armored breastplate? Arts writer Tyler Green dreams up a snarky scenario where the Virginia attorney general's disdain for female nudity reaches th
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Online we encounter more information than ever, but we also lose a hell of a lot. On May 3, the blog WeLoveViral posted a photos and a video titled “Swimming Pool Illusion [http://weloveviral.blogspot.com/2010/05/swimming-pool-illusion-fake-swimming.html].” The YouTube video embedded in the post is
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Star Wars Modern has posted an extensive essay on the evolution of American superheroes, particularly Batman and Superman, and their relationship to modernity and urbanism. His post incorporates many figures that loom large in the 20th C. American urban imagination and he focuses mainly on pop cultu
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A fan of large run prints, Kyle senses something big — maybe "revolutionary" — about the Weiner print. He writes, " … contemporary art can be dangerous; it can quietly change lives … Here's to hoping 'Head Over Heels' is an invasion of contemporary art into the most ordinary of every day life."
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Who knew the Australian landscape painting world could be a hot bed of scandal.
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It is a sad day for pole dancers, and those who appreciate them, in New York state. This from the New York Law Journal: “We question how much planning goes into attempting a dance seen on YouTube,” the tax appeals panel concluded …
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Curator, critic, and blogger Nicole J. Caruth didn’t attend last week’s food event at the Brooklyn Museum but she did get in for the after party. During her post-bacchanalia visit she was able to shoot the remains of the food orgy.
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New York Magazine's senior art critic has started filing video reports from art events. And on Friday he posted a report from Brooklyn Museum's “food art” gala created by “food artist” Jennifer Rubell. Her description of the event is priceless … and absurd …