Frank Reynolds from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia pretends to be an art collector, Ongo Gablogian, and falls in love with the Gallery’s air conditioner: “We’re the air conditioners! I mean look…
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In December, big data visualization programmer Diego Garcia-Olano (who also created our 15th Anniversary infographics) worked with Chicago-based music journalist Rob Mitchum to create a graphic tool for comparing best-of-2016…
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Right now, someone is live streaming two Google Homes talking to each other. As of this posting, the two devices are saying their vows and are getting married. How sweet. Watch…
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwqfCqrWO8g David Bevill came to the rescue when a calf got lost on Highway 79 in Paris, TN. With no horses at the ready, he grabbed his rope and jumped on the hood…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Bathroom Humor ************* No matter how original, innovative or crazy your idea, someone else is also…
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Houston paints the town red in preparation for hosting the 2017 Super Bowl. Houston First just unveiled Wings over Water, a kinetic sculpture by Joe O’Connell and Creative Machines, which will welcome visitors on…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Artist Kader Attia has done today’s This and That for us. We’re sure you can see the similarities.
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: We Can Do It The iconic spread featuring Lynda Benglis from the 1974 issue of Artforum has…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Heads or Tails. Scholars generally agree that Caravaggio’s “David with the head of Goliath” is a…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Here comes the sun. Photographs by Emily Peacock and Dennis Oppenheim.
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Kirby Jenner is the fraternal twin of Kendall Jenner – or at least that’s what he’d like us to believe. Thanks to photoshop skills and a great sense of humor, Jenner…
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“This and That” is an occasional series of paired observations. -Ed. Today: Striving for better products. Videos by Jonathan Schipper and Tom Sachs. EXOvault Briefcase from Jonathan Schipper…
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Kendall Jenner Copies Iconic Performance Artists to Create Her Own Performance Art
by Glasstireby GlasstireIn a recent video for W Magazine, Kendall Jenner recreates four iconic performance art works: Yoko Ono’s Cut Piece, Yves Klein’s The Anthropometries of the Blue Period, Saburo Murakami’s Passing Through, and Marina Abramović and Ulay’s AAA-AAA.…
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Trying out a piece in Trey Duvall’s show Idiot Machines/Infinity Loops at Lawndale Art Center, Houston. (Through Oct. 22)
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Anyone who has visited New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art knows that it is impossibly to see everything in the museum in a week, let alone in a single day. When wandering…
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This week Noah Charney wrote an article in the Guardian about the restoration of the fabulous Ghent altarpiece, begun in 1426 by Hubert van Eyck and completed after his death…
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Earlier this year Glasstire founder Rainey Knudson reviewed the UT Press book The Collections, a massive tome chronicling every object in the collection of the University of Texas at Austin.…
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The Guggenheim currently has an 18-karat gold toilet by Marizio Cattelan available for daily use. Of course, people have taken pictures with the lustrous toilet. Here are just a few of those images. I…
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Remember last month when statues of a naked Donald Trump popped up in NYC, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Cleveland and Seattle? Well, one of those statues is going to be included in Julien’s…
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An Overview of the New National Museum of African American History and Culture
by Glasstireby GlasstireEarlier this week, the New York Times published a beautiful article about the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture. The museum, which has been in the works for…