Are you an artist worried about the public interpreting your pretentious, froufrou pieces?
Well, let the FBI have a crack at it.
(Actually, don’t.)
Back in May 2004, SUNY art history professor Steve Kurtz became involved in just that: a convoluted, complicated and wholly unnecessary FBI bio-terrorism investigation based on Kurtz’s art supplies. In April this year, he [...]

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What the hell is going on in Chicago? Holiday shoppers beware: the latest immigrants from Poland are each “about 9 feet tall, shell-like and frozen in walking movement.” They’ve been installed just off Lake Michigan in Grant Park, which has become the mayor’s (da mayor’s) public art playground, a sort of civic-equivalent of Edward [...]

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“Yo, my marriage just got arranged.”
“Hell no.”
A little film that lives large in the mind, chock full of scrumptious quotes. Check it out here, Noeman Samdani’s Reel Works short at Uth TV.

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Today is the 26th anniversary of the death of John Lennon, the performance-artist-peace-activist Beatle honorable enough to land on the CIA snoop list in a previous era of unpopular war and illegal wiretapping.
To mark the sad anniversary, Yoko took out a full-page ad in last week’s Times mourning contemporary war and suffering and calling on [...]

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Here’s more evidence that graphic-comic is becoming the contemporary masterpiece genre of the visual arts:
Columbian artist Fernando Botero is known for painting like a cartoonist, creating huge canvases and sculptures of whimsical thick-limbed frolicking people, figures that seem to be pulled from the magic-realist novels of fellow Columbian Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
Last year Botero completed [...]

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Industry plus food equals serious yuck. But how else do you expect to feed 7 billion people?

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