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newyorker.com January 2, 2016
When Walter Hopps Met Andy Warhol and Frank Stella

The innovative, iconoclastic curator Walter Hopps (1932-2005) was one of the most influential figures in mid-to-late-twentieth-century American art. He founded his first gallery in L.A.
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news.artnet.com June 5, 2017
‘People Are Too Stupid for Great Art’: Painter Markus Lüpertz on Why the Avant-Garde Will Always Fail

Over the course of his five decade career, Markus Lüpertz has cultivated and embraced his public image as a modern-day dandy almost as much as his reputation as a highly divisive artist and serial provocateur.
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nytimes.com June 6, 2017
A Modern Art Pioneer Down in New Orleans

Dunbar’s remote location — about 30 minutes north of New Orleans, perched on the banks of Bayou Bonfouca — has afforded him the solitude required to create a lifetime’s worth of art, in a range of media. “I’m painting with a mop right now,” he says conspiratorially.
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newcriterion.com April 26, 2017
Art in conversation

I’m reflecting today on a topic I have been discussing with my students at the Institute of Fine Arts, which is “art in conversation.” If you’ve looked at any work of art, you know that you don’t do it passively: you have a response. It can be disgust. It can be admiration.
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news.artnet.com June 5, 2017
Why Performance Has Become the Essential Art Medium of the 21st Century

Across institutions and biennials, project spaces, and even the commercial sector, a turn towards performance is emerging within the contemporary art landscape.
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nytimes.com May 25, 2017
An Artist and Her ‘Beautiful Boy’

Mr. Lillis had never really seen himself, dressed as he wished, in a carefully made portrait. The two have made dozens of images since, in a project called “Beautiful Boy.” An exhibition of the same name opens June 1 at the ClampArt gallery in Chelsea.
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nytimes.com June 5, 2017
The Biggest-Selling Artist at Auction Is a Name You May Not Know

But works by this Chinese modernist painter, who died in 1983, generated $354.8 million in auction sales last year — $31 million more than Picasso, who weighed in at No. 2, according to the French database Artprice.
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gamasutra.com June 5, 2017
Voxel Art: Reducing the Greebles

Voxel art hasn't been around for too long in popular games media. It had an appearance long ago before polygons were the deciding factor for art/technical direction in games, but that's long forgotten.
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thisiscolossal.com June 4, 2017
A Human-Shaped Pool Reflects the Sky Over Tbilisi by Icy & Sotby Christopher Jobson on June 4, 2017

Iran-based artist duo Icy & Sot were recently in Tbilisi, Georgia where they installed this temporary piece titled “Nature’s Reflection” as part of Art-Villa Garikula.
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nytimes.com June 2, 2017
How Glenn Ligon Is Using Black and Blue to Begin a Dialogue

In the beginning was the word: Fragments of prose by James Baldwin, jokes by Richard Pryor and, later, the testimony of a youth wrongly accused of a crime. All have served as the basis for Glenn Ligon’s series of text paintings and neons exploring race, identity, language and abstraction.
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e-flux.com February 23, 2016
What if There’s No Next Big Thing?

What if, in the tech world, there is no next big thing? First we had fire, then came the wheel, and the PC, then the internet and then Google and then the iPhone and then … that’s it. There’s nothing more left to come.
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dinofarmgames.com May 12, 2015
A Pixel Artist Renounces Pixel Art

I’ve wanted to write this article for some time now, and this seems like the perfect opportunity to do so. For those of you who are aware of Dinofarm Games and our recent release, Auro for iOS and Android, you know that we spent literally years producing carefully handmade, meticulous pixel art.
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nrc.nl
The art of stealing

The heating stove in Olga’s bathroom. She burned the artworks in it, she stated in a police interview. Photo Mugur Varzariu Olga is on her own. Her son is in prison, being held on suspicion of having committed what they are calling on television ‘the art theft of the century’.
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designer-daily.com August 14, 2011
20 awesome examples of street art

If you still need a proof that art can be found anywhere, those awesome examples of great street art should convince you.
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hongkiat.com
30 Excellent Pixel Art Tutorials For Pixel Lovers

If you’re born in 90s, I am sure that you have witnessed the glorious age of the pixel art. It exists on the old-school gaming platform, mobile phone and other digital devices.
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priceonomics.com December 4, 2015
The Richest Photographer in the World

“I didn’t really even think to ask [for permission to use the images]. I don’t think that way. It didn’t occur to me to ask him and even if I did and he said ‘no’, I still would have taken them.
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lifehacker.com September 28, 2016
I'm Matt Eaton, Artist and Curator, and This Is How I Work

Matt Eaton is an artist in Detroit—but his own art is often a second priority. As director and curator of the Red Bull House of Art, Matt is an advocate for young, up-and-coming artists, helping to push their talents and promote their work.
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sudoscript.com April 4, 2017
When Pixels Collide

Last weekend, a fascinating act in the history of humanity played out on Reddit. For April Fool's Day, Reddit launched a little experiment. It gave its users, who are all anonymous, a blank canvas called Place.
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openculture.com March 28, 2015
Download 464 Free Art Books from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Open Culture

You could pay $118 on Amazon for the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s catalog The Art of Illumination: The Limbourg Brothers and the Belles Heures of Jean de France, Duc de Berry.
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nymag.com October 18, 2016
Marina Abramovic Has Outlasted Her Lovers and, She Hopes, Her Critics

Marina Abramovic thinks I think too much, and am not very useful besides that. And she is not wrong. Abramovic, when she turns her tractor-beam Slavic-magic gaze on you, sees a lot. Being with her, under the spell of that attention, makes you feel both protected by and protective of her.
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ideas.ted.com December 16, 2014
Books worth reading, as recommended by Bill Gates, Susan Cain and more…

Find repose by exciting the mind. Some of the world’s leading thinkers offer the books that inspired them and their work. Skim the list for your favorite speakers, or get nerdy on a topic you’ve always wanted to know more about. Below find 52 books, recommended by TED speakers.
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artofmanliness.com December 21, 2016
A Call for a New Strenuous Age

Note: All quotes, unless otherwise noted, are taken from No Place for Grace: Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture, 1880-1920 by T. J. Jackson Lears. To look at various metrics of physical and mental health in the world today is to observe a rather gloomy picture.
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paulstamatiou.com June 26, 2014
Provide meaning with motion

Last week I attended Google I/O for the first time and participated on a small panel about cross-platform design challenges. There was so much going on that it was a bit of sensory overload, much like walking down the Las Vegas strip for the first time.
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the-easel.com November 15, 2016
Art journalism

The paintings are of simple things: drapes fluttering in the breeze, a young boy making his way down a hill and across a meadow, ten or fifteen leaves dying on the spindly branch of a tree in late autumn. These images are painted with care, often in tempera, sometimes in watercolor.
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blazepress.com January 15, 2016
The 70 Most Beautiful Cinematic Shots in Movie History

Just as photographers spend hours trying to frame the perfect shot, cinematographers do exactly the same for the big screen.
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artsy.net March 14, 2017
What Happens If You Break an Artwork?

Nick Flynn tripped and damaged several Qing dynasty vases at Cambridge’s Fitzwilliam Museum in 2006. Photo: Steve Baxter, via the Telegraph. It’s the nightmare of many who set foot in an art museum: You trip, lose your balance, and fall right into a priceless work of art. Crash.
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openculture.com May 19, 2014
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 400,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Open Culture

On Friday, The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that “more than 400,000 high-resolution digital images of public domain works in the Museum’s world-renowned collection may be downloaded directly from the Museum’s website for non-commercial use.
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dazeddigital.com October 14, 2015
How to get an art education without going to art school

An education in the UK currently slides between £3,000 and £9,000 per year, and with many students struggling to find work after the golden gates of uni close you'd be forgiven for thinking 'what's the point?' Enter: the Internet, a glorious wormhole of philosophical memes, endless hours waste
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github.com January 21, 2017
noffle/art-of-readme

This article can also be read in Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Spanish. Where does the term "README" come from?
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twistedsifter.com July 16, 2014
The Ultimate Banksy Gallery (127 photos)

Banksy is one of the today’s most prolific artists yet his identity remains unknown. Best known for his satirical street art, the artist debuted his first film, Exit Through the Gift Shop in 2010. The film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature the following year.
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brainpickings.org October 26, 2016
Walk Through Walls: Marina Abramović on Art, Fear, Taking Risks, and Pain as a Focal Lens for Presence

Simone Weil wrote in contemplating how to make use of our suffering shortly before her untimely, heroic death in 1942.
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petapixel.com March 4, 2017
Why Photographers Don’t Get Modern Art

It’s understandable that the great unwashed masses of the larger population might not appreciate contemporary art. But you’d think that photographers, who are creatives in their own right, would appreciate the art and creativity of others in all of its various forms.
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aeon.co May 12, 2017
Has art ended again?

There are more artworks, and more types of artwork, being produced than ever before. Galleries are widespread and – in some countries – free. Major art prizes, and major artists, receive frequent press attention. With all this abundance, it seems nonsensical to suggest that art had ended.
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newstatesman.com November 12, 2016
Marina Abramović turned attention seeking into a modern art form

Reading Abramović's memoir is rather like watching EastEnders: I didn’t learn anything about performance art reading, but I can't deny I had fun.
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diycozyhome.com
The Latest Urban Street Art – Moss Graffiti

The latest craze in urban street art? It’s moss graffiti! Go Green! Save the planet from toxic paint spray chemicals. Use this environmentally friendly medium for artistic expression. I was skeptical at first; but when I saw the creative designs, I was floored!
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commentarymagazine.com July 1, 2015
How Art Became Irrelevant

In 1971 the performance artist Chris Burden stood against the wall of a California art gallery and ordered a friend to shoot him through the arm. That .
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smashingmagazine.com January 28, 2010
Color Theory for Designers, Part 1: The Meaning of Color

Color in design is very subjective. What evokes one reaction in one person may evoke a very different reaction in somone else. Sometimes this is due to personal preference, and other times due to cultural background. Color theory is a science in itself.
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fastcompany.com September 5, 2016
How Writing To-Do Lists Helps Your Brain (Whether Or Not You Finish Them)

For a long time, I resisted to-do lists. I wanted the flexibility. I felt that if I kept a list, it would tie me down to a particular set of tasks. Gradually, though, I came around. The busier my work life became, the more crucial it was to have some sort of running agenda on hand.
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io9.gizmodo.com April 21, 2017
Do You Realize Mad Max: Fury Road Is A Miracle?

I’m serious. Mad Max: Fury Road should not exist. It should never have gotten made. It certainly shouldn’t be as awesome as it is. And yet somehow, against all odds, this impossible cinematic masterpiece is in theaters right now, in defiance of reality itself.
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news.artnet.com April 6, 2015
12 Must-Read Tips for a Successful Career in the Art World

Life as an aspiring artist is an endless sea of precarious arrangements, commercial demands, and cutthroat competitiveness. How to cope?
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news.artnet.com June 24, 2014
Ways of Seeing Instagram

Richard Prince is making art by recycling Instagram screenshots. Dealers are hawking art via Instagram. The Met has even retained an Instagram guru “to play catch-up to figure out how best to exploit this online pictorial medium.”
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artinamericamagazine.com March 3, 2014
The Perils of Post-Internet Art

Most people I know think "Post-Internet" is embarrassing to say out loud. 1 But so is most of the language that's used to write about contemporary art, and "Post-Internet" does the job of artspeak so efficiently that people keep saying it, embarrassment be damned.
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newyorker.com July 12, 2010
The Mark of a Masterpiece

Every few weeks, photographs of old paintings arrive at Martin Kemp’s eighteenth-century house, outside Oxford, England. Many of the art works are so decayed that their once luminous colors have become washed out, their shiny coats of varnish darkened by grime and riddled with spidery cracks.
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collectorsweekly.com September 24, 2014
The Reclusive, Doll-Collecting Copper Queen of Fifth Avenue

Huguette Clark, the youngest daughter of copper mogul and Montana Senator William Andrews Clark, lived her life in the headlines. Born in 1906 to the senator and Anna LaChapelle—Clark’s second wife, 39 years his junior—Huguette attracted media attention even as a toddler.
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theguardian.com March 4, 2016
Banksy unmasked? Scientists use maths and criminology to map artist's identity

British academics have used geographic profiling in a study which backs up a theory about the identity of elusive street artist Banksy British academics have used a combinations of maths, criminology and geographic profiling to back up a theory over the identity of mysterious street artist Banksy.
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fastcodesign.com December 4, 2014
Facebook Design Director: The 5 Most Common Design Mistakes

There’s no learning without mistakes. And I’ve done the following (as well as seen the following done) too many times to count.
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theguardian.com May 12, 2014
Performance artist Marina Abramović: 'I was ready to die'

In Belgrade, audiences cut her; in New York, they came in their thousands and wept. What will happen when Marina Abramović lands in London for her most radical show yet? Emma Brockes talks to the art superstar about lipstick, masochism – and why she's too much for any man
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vulture.com April 19, 2015
The New New Museum: The Whitney May Have Just Won New York’s Museum Arms Race

I’ve spent much of my life in and in love with museums. When I was 10 years old, there was no mention of art in my home. But then my mother began driving me from the suburbs to the Art Institute of Chicago. There, she looked at art on her own for hours, leaving me to do the same.
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featureshoot.com February 11, 2014
50 Awesome Photography Websites Feature Shoot Recommends for Daily Inspiration

With the demise of our blogroll in our new site design, we thought we’d shine the light on 50 unique photography-based websites that inspire us on a daily basis.
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artbusiness.com
Quantifying Creativity

Pricing your art is different from making art; it's something you do with your art after it's made, when it's ready to leave your studio and get sold either by you personally or through a gallery, at an art fair, online, at open studios, through an agent or representative, wherever.
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nytimes.com March 18, 2017
The Mission to Save Vanishing Internet Art

In the 1990s, art found a new medium. Anarchic and unconstrained, the World Wide Web attracted an oddball collection of people ready to do almost anything and call it art. Often their work looked weird and amateurish, with pixelated graphics, tinny chiptune music and garish colors.
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nybooks.com March 3, 2017
Master of the Unreal

An air of unreality hangs over the astonishing exhibition of seventeenth-century Dutch artist Hercules Segers at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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library.gv.com May 8, 2014
What fuels great design (and why most startups don’t do it)

“How can my company become great at design?” Founders ask me this question more than any other. They’re often considering hiring a hotshot designer or expensive design agency. And while those might help, neither will bake design deep into how the company operates.
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vulture.com September 19, 2016
The Tyranny of Art History in Contemporary Art

The art world likes to ask big art-centric questions like “Can art change the world?” We usually answer “Yes.” I usually disagree. Art can’t stop famine in sub-Saharan Africa or eradicate Zika. But art does change the world incrementally and by osmosis.
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fivethirtyeight.com April 6, 2017
An Excavation Of One Of The World’s Greatest Art Collections

About 4,000 years ago, an Egyptian senior government official named Meketre rode up the Nile, his dozen oarsmen straining against the prevailing northerly winds. Meketre was a kind of data collector, tasked with accounting the comings and goings of royal goods.
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openculture.com September 19, 2014
The Guggenheim Puts 109 Free Modern Art Books Online Open Culture

Back in January, 2012, we mentioned that the Guggenheim (the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed modern art museum in NYC) had put 65 art catalogues on the web, all free of charge. We’re happy to report that, between then and now, the number of free texts has grown to 109.
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vanityfair.com January 2, 2014
Jeff Koons Is Back!

If the walls at Manhattan’s Frick Collection could talk, they would have been uttering tiny gasps of shock and awe this spring at a lecture given by Jeff Koons for a small, mostly professional-art-world crowd.
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theguardian.com May 9, 2017
Bish-bash-bosh: how Phyllida Barlow conquered the art world at 73

The story of Phyllida Barlow’s precipitous rise to art-world fame is irresistible, and it has been told and retold so many times that it has taken on the quality of myth. It goes something like this.
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petapixel.com September 27, 2016
7 Tips for Capturing More Powerful Fine Art Landscape Photography

Capturing powerful landscape photographs, images that might be considered “Fine Art,” is no easy task. Here are 7 tips that have helped me to capture better, more meaningful landscape photos. There are endless online discussions about the true concept of Fine Art, many regarding photography.
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bbc.com July 20, 2015
The 100 greatest American films

America’s films are among its greatest exports. Since Thomas Edison’s innovations in the medium in the 1890s, the United States has consistently been a powerhouse in the development of cinema – from the massively popular entertainments of Hollywood to independent and avant-garde film.
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priceonomics.com September 23, 2015
Why Is Art Expensive?

In 1996, an art dealer named Glafira Rosales approached Ann Freedman, the president of New York’s Knoedler Gallery, which sold artwork to wealthy collectors for over 150 years.
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brainpickings.org October 27, 2014
The Paradox of Active Surrender: Jeanette Winterson on How Learning to Understand Art Transforms Us

I recently attended an event at which a celebrated public radio personality attempted to interview a celebrated artist. “Attempted,” because he clearly did not understand her work and the spirit from which it sprang.
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fivebooks.com May 23, 2017
The best books on the Lives of Artists — a Five Books interview

You’ve likened Giorgio Vasari’s Lives of the Artists to a kind of Renaissance version of Facebook.
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brainpickings.org October 12, 2016
The Third Self: Mary Oliver on Time, Concentration, the Artist’s Task, and the Central Commitment of the Creative Life

the poet Jane Hirshfield wrote in her beautiful inquiry into the effortless effort of creativity, “world and self begin to cohere. With that state comes an enlarging: of what may be known, what may be felt, what may be done.
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medium.com December 4, 2015
Good Design

My first design job was an internship on Microsoft OneNote in 2007. Our intrepid leader was the product founder Chris Pratley, who terrified me the way karaokeing Adele onstage while completely sober is terrifying.
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brainpickings.org September 9, 2013
Leo Tolstoy on Emotional Infectiousness and What Separates Good Art from the Bad

By 1897, Leo Tolstoy (September 9, 1828–November 20, 1910) was already a literary legend of worldwide acclaim and a man deeply invested in his ultimate quest to unravel the most important wisdom on life.
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artbusiness.com
How to Get a First Show at an Art Gallery

Do you ever wonder how a gallery decides to give a new artist a first show? If you're like many artists, you probably think it's all about the art. You waltz your oeuvre through a gallery's doors, the owner swoons; game over. Right? No, not really.
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youtube.com May 7, 2017
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Artists

Andrew Price at Blender Conference 2016. Learn more at https://www.blender.org/conference/20...
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artofmanliness.com June 4, 2014
How to Make Small Talk with Strangers: My 21-Day Happiness Experiment

One of the more unexpected changes I discovered upon becoming a parent is how much more you end up talking with strangers. This is in part because strangers are more likely to approach you when you have a youngster with you, and in part because kids are great icebreakers.
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slate.com December 17, 2013
Why the Art World Is So Loathsome

Now that photographs of this year’s Art Basel Miami are finally working their way out of everyone’s Instagram feeds, it’s worth revisiting Simon Doonan’s takedown of the modern art world.
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flowartstation.com May 10, 2017
Hilarious Winners of the First Annual ‘Comedy Wildlife Photography Awards’

William Richardson.
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youtube.com
People react to being called beautiful

#breathebeautyI conducted an independent project, which evidently turned into a social experiment halfway through, regarding beauty at my performing arts high school in Chicago. I want to clarify that my intentions were not to get a reaction out of people. I was simply filming beauty and this is the
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lifehacker.com July 26, 2015
Simple Rules of Thumb for Decorating Your Walls

If you don’t have an eye for design, you might not know where to start when it comes to putting art on your walls. You can always go with your gut, but this infographic lays out some basic rules that make it simple.
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lifehacker.com March 14, 2016
Mastering the Art of "Just Start"

For most of us, there is nothing more daunting than coming face-to-face with a blank page. Sure, a tabula rasa means you can take a project in any direction, but that boundlessness can quickly become overwhelming. This post originally appeared on the Help Scout blog.
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thenextweb.com March 10, 2017
The history of flat design: How efficiency and minimalism turned the digital world flat

It seems as though any time you hear about Web design these days, you can’t help but come across the term “flat design.
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bookslut.com
The Art of the Heist: Valuing Art through Its Theft

In November 2010, a Chinese porcelain vase that had been languishing for decades in a suburban London "bungalow" sold for an astonishing 69 million dollars. It catapulted into the ranks of established brand names like Picasso, Van Gogh, and Renoir as one of the all-time highest bids at auction.
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youtube.com
John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 1 (1972)

A BAFTA award-winning BBC series with John Berger, which rapidly became regarded as one of the most influential art programmes ever made. In the first programme, Berger examines the impact of photography on our appreciation of art from the past.Ways of Seeing is a 1972 BBC four-part television serie
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nytimes.com November 30, 2014
On Elite Campuses, an Arts Race

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Closed for six years, the Harvard Art Museums reopen here Sunday after a radical overhaul by the architect Renzo Piano. He saved only the shell of the chaste, red-brick Fogg Museum and its interior courtyard, extending it upward in sheets of glass and elegant trusswork.
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themission.co June 19, 2015
8 Things Every Person Should Do Before 8 A.M.

Here is the Italian and French translations. Life is busy. It can feel impossible to move toward your dreams. If you have a full-time job and kids, it’s even harder.
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library.gv.com April 15, 2013
Why you should move that button 3px to the left

When a product is close to launch, I become a perfectionist. Each misaligned element or awkward interaction is like a thorn in my side. There’ll be a dozen tiny implementation mistakes that taunt me each time I run into them. Everything seems so broken.
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twistedsifter.com April 13, 2012
Adding Monsters to Thrift Store Paintings

Have you ever been to a thrift store (think Goodwill or Salvation Army) and noticed that they usually carry a small selection of landscape paintings? Artists Chris McMahon and Thryza Segal decided to inject a little fun into these discarded works and give them a second life by adding monsters to th
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nplusonemag.com January 16, 2013
Edge and the Art Collector

In 1999, he bought Munch’s Madonna for $11 million. In 2004, he bought Hirst’s The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Someone Living for $8 million. In 2006, he bought a Pollock for $52 million. In 2006, he bought de Kooning’s Woman III for $137 million.
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nytimes.com November 12, 2014
The Met and Other Museums Adapt to the Digital Age

For the Metropolitan Museum of Art, a turning point came in 2011. Down went the signs imploring visitors to stow their cellphones. The Met revamped its website, tailoring it for viewing on smartphone screens.
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nytimes.com January 1, 2016
How James Turrell Knocked the Art World Off Its Feet

It was a beautiful Thursday morning in May, and everything was going wrong.
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nytimes.com March 23, 2017
Art Supply Sales Jumped in January, Thanks to Protest Signs, Report Says

Political activism can be measured in several ways: by the number of signatories on a petition, demonstrators at a protest or donations to an organization. Or, in some cases, the sale of art supplies.
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vanityfair.com January 2, 2014
The Devil and the Art Dealer

At about nine P.M. on September 22, 2010, the high-speed train from Zurich to Munich passed the Lindau border, and Bavarian customs officers came aboard for a routine check of passengers.
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lifehacker.com January 30, 2017
Krita Is a Fast, Flexible, and Free Photoshop Alternative Built by Artists

Windows/macOS/Linux: If you’re on the lookout for a digital painting tool and Photoshop is too expensive, Krita is a fast, free, and open source art tool that was developed by artists looking for something that met their needs without a ton of bloat or overhead.
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e-flux.com June 24, 2016
If You Don’t Have Bread, Eat Art!: Contemporary Art and Derivative Fascisms

Is art a currency? Investor Stefan Simchowitz thinks so. He wrote with uncompromising clarity about the post-Brexit era: “Art will effectively continue its structural function as an alternative currency that hedges against inflation and currency depreciation.
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creativebloq.com
How to draw and paint - 100 pro tips and tutorials

Every month ImagineFX magazine is inundated with queries from digital artists looking for advice on specific problems they're having with their drawing and painting projects.
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nytimes.com October 28, 2013
Forging an Art Market in China

When the hammer came down at an evening auction during China Guardian’s spring sale in May 2011, “Eagle Standing on a Pine Tree,” a 1946 ink painting by Qi Baishi, one of China’s 20th-century masters, had drawn a startling price: $65.4 million.
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artfido.com
NSFW: Swiss Performance Artist Attends Art Basel Without Clothes

When Bar Rafaeli appeared completely nude on the cover of Esquire, was it performance art? Possibly – she did have an actual artist named Stephen Victore paint the words of Stephen King on her body.
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lifehacker.com January 14, 2015
How to Stop Pretending and Actually Enjoy Art

You might roll your eyes when your in-laws want to visit the art gallery. You might also get anxious and start thinking of things to say so you don't look dumb. But art doesn't have to be a chore. Here's how you can better consume art so you can have a shot at enjoying the experience.
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vulture.com April 18, 2017
Jerry Saltz: My Life As a Failed Artist

It pains me to say it, but I am a failed artist.
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bbc.com January 23, 2015
Why museums hide masterpieces away

The numbers don’t lie. At New York’s Museum of Modern Art, 24 of 1,221 works by Pablo Picasso in the institution’s permanent collection can currently be seen by visitors. Just one of California conceptual artist Ed Ruscha’s 145 pieces is on view. Surrealist Joan Miró? Nine out of 156 works.
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qz.com June 29, 2015
Coloring books are suddenly catching on with adults

There are Facebook pages devoted to adult colorers. There are coloring clubs. People who motivate themselves to pay off debt by coloring. Game of Thrones is making a coloring book. What this means: Coloring is now a normal adult activity.
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medium.com June 26, 2013
Don’t go to art school

I’ve had it. I will no longer encourage aspiring artists to attend art school. I just won’t do it. Unless you’re given a full ride scholarship (or have parents with money to burn), attending art school is a waste of your money.
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