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How Art Meets TechPeople in the art world are often kind of like your parents learning how to text - they know that technology is a thing but they don’t have a ton of interest in learning to use it. And tech can be very overwhelming and intimidating if you’re not used to it - the art archival…
Anish Kapoor’s “Cloud Gate” (2006) following the artist’s recent recoating in Vantablack
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Vanta is the New Black?Who owns the color red? That seems like an insane question—how can someone own a color?! Of course, lots of things seem crazy until people do them. Like Anish Kapoor, who now has exclusive ownership of the world’s blackest black. What Is The Blackest Black? Good question! It’s a carbon nanotube material developed by Surrey…
Georges-Pierre Seurat, A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte (1884), collection of the Art Institute of Chicago. | Image source: commons.wikimedia.org
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Art: The Original Social NetworkWhy do we make art? Plenty of folks have tried to answer that question over the course of human history. Freud, Nietzsche, Hegel, Kant, Lacan, Heidegger, Adorno, Derrida—the roster of great thinkers who’ve tried to answer that question reads like a Greatest Hits list for philosophy students. For all those thousands and thousands of pages…
From “Creating a new museum definition – the backbone of ICOM” | Image source: icom.museum
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The Changing Face Of The Art MuseumPicture an art museum—you’re probably thinking of a huge building with either a classical facade or a super-modern edifice with lots of windows and unusual angles. The art inside of it is probably divided into sections by time period and geography. And it probably has a room or two for temporary exhibits. For a lot…
The New York activists, the Guerrilla Girls' fight against discrimination in the art world. Image credit: Lois Greenfeld | Image source: dw.com
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Fake Fur And Feminism: The Guerrilla Girls Are Fighting For Equality  In 1984, MoMA opened an exhibition, “An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," to showcase the most important contemporary artists in the world. In total, it included the works of 169 artists. Of those, 13 were female. In response, a group of 7 female artists donned gorilla masks to protest the gender bias…
David Bowie
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Oh! You Pretty Things: The Art Collection Of David BowieHow can we describe David Bowie? Musician? Muse? Radical? Legend? Starman? The only word that even comes close is simply “artist.” From his music and lyrics to his sets and costumes to his personas, Bowie treated everything as an act of creation. His fascination with the aesthetic extended beyond creating art to collecting it. “Art,”…