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Did you know that Ayn Rand had a theory of art? No? Neither did I! But I discovered it recently, thanks to a tip from painter Abigail Markov. It's encapsulated in the hefty 539-page treatise What Art Is: The Esthetic Theory of Ayn Rand, written and compiled by Louis Torres and Michelle Marder Kamhi.
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File this under WTF: Japanese Takeshi Miyakawa, who lives in Brooklyn, was arrested for hanging a plastic bag filled with LED lights from a tree in Greenpoint, and he's now being held without bail for 30 days. Miyakawa's installation of glowing "I Love NY" bags was meant as a tribute to the city, in
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In what can only be called a bizarre turn of events, a defense contract that is trying to turn a South Boston theater into a combat-helmet assembly plant has compared what it is doing to what its artist neighbors do for a living.
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These Obsidian/Anthracite-Black fugly things are responsible for a potential mall riot in Orlandso, Florida? Yes, that's right. The release of Nike Air Foamposite One NRG “Galaxy” inspired a 1,000 people to show for the sale of the glow-in-the-dark sole sneakers.
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This morning, I received the following image of a press release from a Berlin gallery show and I was speechless.
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About a month or two ago, I noticed one particularly hilarious sticker all over Williamsburg that declared DOLPHINS RAPE PEOPLE. Today, our publisher sent me a link and my jaw dropped
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This makes my blood boil. Coincidentally, the NEA (for those who may not know) is the National Endowment for the Arts [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Endowment_for_the_Arts]. Article linked to in the tweet here [http://money.cnn.com/2011/08/01/markets/debt_ceiling_treasury_bills/index.htm]. [
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Last Sunday, we linked [http://hyperallergic.com/28569/required-reading-19/] to the story about a monkey who took a photo and resulting legal issue of copyright around the image. Well, Techdirt who first asked the question, "Who Owns the Copyright?" just received a takedown notice [http://www.techdi
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Ignore the nice moody song and James Franco's disembodied smiling head, and just concentrate on the cheesiness of Kalup Linzy's new music video filled with vagina imagery … Judy Chicago would be proud, or weirded out. Take your pick.
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The Guardian reports that an extremist Christian group has attacked a print of artist Andres Serrano's infamous photograph “Piss Christ” (1987), smashing an acrylic plastic barrier around the piece and slashing the print itself with a “screwdriver or ice pick” (WTF). This follows previous attacks on
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The art world presents an overwhelming threat to clowns everywhere as Jeff Koons sues San Francisco store Park Life and Toronto creators imm Living for producing and selling balloon dog bookends that look only slightly similar to the famous artist's balloon dog sculptures in that they both look like
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At Gagosian gallery on December 23rd, black-shirted figures stood in front of Anselm Kiefer's enigmatic, monumental sculptures. Wearing shirts inscribed with “Next year in Jerusalem,” the protesters were attempting to continue Keifer's political dialogue. Gallery employees didn't agree and tried to