Art articles

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  'The Pirate Cinema' monitors popular torrents to create a video wall of piracy

  By Aaron Souppouris on May 20, 2013 04:58 am + 11 comments

  The Pirate Cinema is a cinematic collage or sorts. Its creators took torrent database The Pirate Continue reading…

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  Ill-gotten gains: how many museums have stolen objects in their collections?

  By Carl Franzen on May 13, 2013 01:30 pm + 71 comments

  The prestigious New York Museum of Metropolitan of Art made headlines earlier this month when museum Continue reading…

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  '2001: A Space Odyssey' explained to kids in 1960s comic

  By Amar Toor on May 13, 2013 07:12 am + 21 comments

  Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey is one of the most cryptic films ever made, having spawned Continue reading…

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  Sexts as art: Karen Finley to create paintings inspired by anonymous, explicit texts

  By Chris Welch on May 1, 2013 04:10 pm + 19 comments

  Can sexting inspire artwork? The New Museum and Karen Finley think so. They've announced a Continue reading…

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  A legal victory for 'appropriation art' expands when artists can remix each others' work

  By Adi Robertson on April 29, 2013 05:30 pm + 45 comments

  Does painting blots over the eyes of a photograph turn it into something new? That's one of the Continue reading…

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  See how dozens of artists interpret 'Lost,' 'Star Trek,' and other Bad Robot works

  By Jacob Kastrenakes on April 27, 2013 10:02 pm + 16 comments

  J.J. Abrams' production company Bad Robot has quickly become known for series like Lost and Super 8 Continue reading…

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  Artless: budget cuts force Smithsonian to close exhibits at random

  By Carl Franzen on April 24, 2013 10:47 am + 61 comments

  If you’re planning to visit an art museum at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington, DC, this Continue reading…

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  Transform Tokyo into your own musical light show

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 24, 2013 06:35 am + 11 comments

  The Tokyo City Symphony is like nothing we've seen before. Using an incredible 1:1000 scale model of Continue reading…

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  Some plane crashes have a 'Happy End'

  By Aaron Souppouris on April 24, 2013 04:27 am + 5 comments

  Not every air disaster need end in the loss of lives. Photographer Dietmar Eckell travelled to four Continue reading…

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  Cameras become art with casings made from books, turtles, and an armadillo

  By Adi Robertson on April 21, 2013 02:12 pm + 14 comments

  Cameras can come in many styles and formats, and photographers Nico Krebs and Taiyo Onorato have Continue reading…