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An Artist’s Day Job
Boris Rasin, "Arch Masons," 2010 To support themselves, artists typically have day jobs. While many teach, some find other ways to make ends meet. Warhol and Hopper earned money in advertising and...
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Koons on your Google homepage?
Google's new Jeff Koons background, courtesy of googleblog.blogspot.com Today Google unveils a new “choose your own background” feature. According to the company’s official blog, “You can choose a...
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Looking at Contemporary Dance
Scenery by Santiago Calatrava, image (c) Paul Kolnik As an art form, dance is a mixture of the visual and the auditory. While we watch dancers perform aesthetic pieces onstage, we hear music meant to...
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Art of the Oil Spill
Image courtesy of chuckmeyers.com As Gawker posted the other day, in an act of what now seems like prescience, Chicago artist Chuck Meyers painted a leaking “BP Truck” in oil. This was back in 2006 and...
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Dumbing Down the Art Museum
Courtesy brooklynmuseum.org A popular article in Tuesday’s New York Times discusses the Brooklyn Museum’s failed efforts at drawing bigger and more serious crowds. This historic museum has tried...
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The Persistence of Memory
Christian Boltanski, "No Man's Land" at the Park Avenue Armory With our poor economy and tough times in general, it would be natural for artists to look ahead to happier days. Like the rest of us, they...
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Klein’s Big Leap
Yves Klein, “Obsession de la lévitation," 1960. Private Collection. © 2010(ARS), NY/ADAGP, Paris. by Shunk-Kender, © Roy Lichtenstein Foundation, courtesy Yves Klein Archives. The Hirshhorn Museum and...
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Mehrutu’s Grey Area
Julie Mehretu, "Berliner Plätze," 2008–09. Ink and acrylic on canvas, 304.8 x 426.7 cm Commissioned by Deutsche Bank AG in consultation with the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for the Deutsche...
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