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How to Apply to Art School in China
All of these photos come from Shandong, where, according to the People's Daily Online, nearly 10,000 people applied to get into the Shandong University of Art and Design this year.
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Hacking God
Last Saturday night was show-and-tell at the New York incarnation of Art Hack Day, which took place at 319 Scholes in East Williamsburg, Brooklyn, and the treasures unearthed during the three-day hack-a-thon were on full display.
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Browse Thousands of Amazing Historic Brooklyn Photos
History nerds and Brooklynophiles, rejoice! The Brooklyn Historical Society, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Brooklyn Public Library have teamed up to put large chunks of their collections online. The result is Brooklyn Visual Heritage, which is pretty much what it sounds like: a website devoted to a v
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Photo Preview: "NYC 1993” at the New Museum
Opening tonight, the New Museum's NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star purports to offer a time capsule, or, as the museum's curator Gary Carrion-Murayari put it, a "form of collective memory" documenting a particular time in a particular art scene, namely, New York City in the '90s.
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Locating Tweets IRL
Even though, like most people, I use Twitter publicly, I still often get the feeling that my tweets exist in a kind of social media bubble — that they're shielded from the rest of the world, read only by the people whose feeds they might happen to pop up in. That is, of course, just the imaginary fe
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Populating the Empty Spaces of Detroit
What's most often missing from pictures of Detroit are people. They don't quite work in the landscape of ruin porn, enamored as it of empty, decaying spaces that seem beautiful precisely because they're devoid of the life they once had. Showing people would suggest that Detroit is more than just a s
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Thinking BIG in Phoenix
Last month, Danish architecture firm BIG unveiled its plans for a landmark in Arizona's largest city that the developer hopes will become a symbol of the city much in the way Seattle's Space Needle has come to represent that great Northwestern city.
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Amazing Posters from Weimar Germany Going Up for Sale
Germany between the two world wars was a time of stunning creativity. Although it saw the rise of Nazism, the Weimar Era also included the flourishing of Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) and Dada in visual art, avant-garde theater by the likes of Bertolt Brecht, German Expressionist films, critic
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Those Are Some Ugly Sweaters
Last night's festive affair at the Museum of Chinese in America was a blast. For our Ugly Sweater Party people showed up wearing their interpretations of what an ugly sweater really is … boy, oh, boy …
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Life Imitating Art: Melting Clocks
Sometimes art comes first …
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MoMA's Hilariously Bizarre Silent Screams
With one version of Munch's renowned The Scream series on display at MoMA, New Yorkers and tourist are mimicking the bald figure's extreme expression much the way tourists to Oslo have long been doing — though some aren't very successful at it. Some people may think it's tacky, I think it's a scream
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How Things Fall Apart: Photos from The Rockaways
After yesterday's report on MoMA PS1 director Klaus Biesenbach's efforts to gather volunteers for a second volunteer trip to The Rockaways this upcoming weekend, we felt compelled to share these images by photographer Amanda Kirkpatrick, who traveled to the Queens neighborhood last weekend to docume