Art
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Jews on Vinyl
The Contemporary Jewish Museum of San Francisco is celebrating its current exhibit Jews on Vinyl: And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl (at the museum through June 9) with a musical revue “you just didn’t realize…
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Truth Beauty
Artist Simen Johan trucks in the demystification of artful dodging. Regardless of what medium he works in or the subject he chooses at any given moment, whether it is live llamas, roadkill fox, or children, forcing us to look behind…
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Bodies, Islands
From sunny St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands, artist Tomas Lanner runs the online Salt Gallery. Most recently he asked three local artists, Luca Gasperi, Mandy Thody, and Mike Walsh, along with two from California—Ron Kenedi and Christopher Jernberg—all…
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Women, Water, Oil
Alyssa Monks paints women through the distorted lens of water, and her newest round of work puts them in the steamy cage of the shower, where their breasts and bellies brush up against foggy glass doors and they become entangled…
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A New Frontier of Virtual Value and Stetsons
Since 1997, the art collaborative the eteam, aka Franziska Lamprecht and Hajoe Moderegger, has been creating events, installations and videos that explore the way environmental changes affect how people act. With their jump suits and plastic Stetsons, delivering their conceits…
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Wanderlust: A One Question Interview with Mikael Kennedy
“Whether or not the stories are ‘true’ is not the problem. The only question is whether what I tell is my fable, my truth.” – Carl Jung (Memories, Dreams Reflections)
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Imagine Finding Me in London
There are a number of reasons I wish I were in London today. Most of them are aesthetic. Take photographer Chino Otsuka’s Imagine Finding Me series, where the Tokyo-born, London-based good-kind-of-manipulator morphs together images of her former and current selves…
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Momoyo Torimitsu’s Salary Soldiers
When Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu takes her life-size, crawling robot businessman, Miyata Jiro, for a stroll
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U.S. Department of the Arts?
Famed producer Quincy Jones has asked President Obama to establish a cabinet-level position for culture and the arts. An online petition already has almost 300,000 signatures. Add your name to the list!
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Trash Art Part 1: Tom Deininger
Found object art may be more environmentally known as recycled art, or just plain trash art. But the work of Tom Deininger is anything but trash. His large found object works range from pop culture to classical replica to political critique.…
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Invincible Cities
The interactive Web archive Invincible Cities is a Herculean accomplishment by sociologist and photographer Camilo José Vergara. Over three decades, Vergara has taken more than fourteen thousand photographs of urban buildings, subways and landscapes, each from the same perspective. The…