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January 21, 2011, 1:30 PM At Wesleyan, a Program for Performance Art Curators By PATRICIA COHEN As the Institute for Curatorial Practice in Performance at Wesleyan University says, performance art “is first and foremost a social experience that happens on a person-to-person level.” That has not stopped the institute from creating a new professional certificate…
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PROFILE of John Baldessari. Andy Warhol’s shadow hangs heavy over the international art world, but not in L.A., where the most relevant artist of the moment, the seventy-nine-year-old John Baldessari, said recently that he “hadn’t thought about Warhol in forty years.” Baldessari’s endlessly surprising retrospective, which was on view all summer at the Los Angeles…
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The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
The illustrated guide to a Ph.D.
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Mr Gray was smart enough to realise two things; firstly that Lulu have made the mechanics of book-making so cheap and easy that you can move straight to the physical form of the thing as soon as you want. The best way to write a book is bundle all your notes and rough thoughts together…
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Hello. I work as an interaction designer in London. At the minute, I’m mixing freelance and personal projects with a part-time role as Lead Designer at a company called BERG, where I’m based for four days a week. I’ve worked freelance on and off since 2003, with companies such as RIG, Airside, Wieden+Kennedy, The BRIT…
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Music for Shuffle #01 (by Matt Brown) (Source: https://player.vimeo.com/)
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Next month, Tate Modern will host a stellar group show entitled Pop Life. Apparently, the show was going to be called Sold Out – a much more provocative and, some would say, apposite title, given that among the themes addressed by the curators is the notion of the artist as brand. Think Damien Hirst, think…
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The unthinkable scenario unfolded something like this: The ability to share content wouldn’t shrink, it would grow. Walled gardens would prove unpopular. Digital advertising would reduce inefficiencies, and therefore profits. Dislike of micropayments would prevent widespread use. People would resist being educated to act against their own desires. Old habits of advertisers and readers would…
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Angry Birds is a so-called physics game, which suggests education, and also a puzzle in reverse, as you must destroy something by figuring out how its pieces come apart. Your tools are these birds — the victims of the theft, but also your cannon fodder. Each bird that is launched dies. Though there’s no blood,…
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“In essence, we brainstormed the question, ‘What would we do if the goal was to aggressively cannibalize ourselves?’ ” What that meant more than anything else was forcing one of the nation’s oldest magazines to stop thinking of itself as a printed product. Separations between the digital and print staffs in both business and editorial…