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Live Tweeting the Arts

LOS ANGELES — If some reject the idea that culture can be engaged with through your smartphone, others are finding ways to do exactly that, particularly using Twitter.

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As Whitney Biennial Approaches, Museum's Art Handlers Face Potential Labor Dispute [UPDATED]

First Sotheby's, and now the Whitney. While the Teamsters of Local 814 have been fighting with Sotheby's since August for a better contract, a new labor dispute has cropped up for the art handlers of Local 966 that work at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

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The Leaked 2012 Whitney Biennial List [UPDATED]

Gallerist NY got a hold of a leaked version of the 2012 Whitney Biennial artist list and they've posted it online. There's no big surprises here.

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Trending: #Hashtag Event Names

Pitchfork, the inveterate hipster music site, recently announced plans for a music festival in New York City named #offline. Social media is great and all, but the sudden popularity of names that begin with the Twitter hashtag-indicating # are starting to be mildly annoying, however niche it is. Jus

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Is Street Art Over?

Writing for Slate, critic Ben David investigates the possibility that Banksy’s Exit Through the Gift Shop may have been a “poisoned valentine” to the global movement known as Street Art.

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The Whitney Biennial in Photos

This year’s Whitney Biennial may be my favorite in memory. I’ve been thinking about it for over two months now and will publish my review here next week but until then I wanted to post some photos that I snapped during the press preview back in February.

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Underpaid Labor at the Art Show

My friend was trying to convince me the other day that $20 was not an unreasonable amount for a museum to ask visitors to pay. We were standing in the lobby of the Whitney shortly after the Biennial had opened, and maybe I was having none of it simply because I was feeling snarky while remembering p

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Ungeziefer: Kafka at the Whitney Biennial

I'm trying to sleep at the Whitney. I rest on a white pillow, a white bath towel covering me. On my head I wear a plastic grocery store bag, the handles tied under my chin, two rubber bands on either side of my head cinching the plastic into a pair of ears. I'm supposed to be a mouse.

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Oldest Temple Found, State of Arts Funding, Detroit Police Terrorize Art Patrons

… winning design of new U.S. embassy in London announced … Vienna's famed Secession hall is turning gallery space into a sex hall as part of an art project … the 2010 Whitney Biennial has opened and the reviews have started to roll in.