Photographer Jordan Matter’s "Dancers Among Us" project captures "guerrilla dance" in NY. Dancers from the Paul Taylor Dance Company perform incredible feats in libraries, parks, restaurants and the Mac Store.…
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Protecting artist’s rights gets pretty dramatic when it involves the music industry. The New York Times follows a BMI music-copyright enforcer through bars, restaurants and strip clubs as she tries…
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ArtInfo‘s Andrew Russeth posted his list of top ten artist websites. Art Fag City‘s Paddy Johnson found the 90% male list too auction-friendly and retaliated with her own favorites.
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Arts Journal blogger Regina Hackett asks why artist Will Cotton isn’t being credited for the arresting visuals he provided for the 31 million hit Katy Perry video. Cotton, who recently…
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Are our interior design choices influenced by our prehistoric predecessors? According to a German study, the way people arrange their bedrooms reflects the security concerns of early man. Does this…
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65 years ago today, the Enola Gay dropped the Little Boy atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima. Gizmodo presents survivors first-person accounts and photographs of the human aftermath.
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Round three of The Idea Fund is now open for applications. The $4,000 cash awards will be given to "10 Texas-based, artist-generated or artist-centered projects that exemplify the unconventional, interventionist,…
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The SEC has charged Dallas’s billionaire Wyly brothers, Sam and Charles, with hiding $550 million in trading profits by using an “an elaborate sham system of trusts and subsidiary companies".…
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The Great Depression in living color? FSA photographers like Russell Lee recorded The Great Depression in starkly beautiful black and white images but they shot color as well. The Denver…
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You can’t get this on Netflix. Eve Sussman and the Rufus Corporation’s opulent "video-opera," "The Rape of the Sabine Women" will be screened tonight only in Dallas. It’s part of…
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The art world’s Bernie Madoff, New York art dealer Lawerence Salander was sentenced to six to 18 years in state prison on Monday. Salander was convicted of stealing $120 million…
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It took eight months of digging but archaeologists have located the entrance to the tunnel that leads to the galleries beneath the Temple of the Feathered Serpent in Teotihuacan. The…
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Novelist and father of seven, Frank Cottrell Boyce argues that kids helped rather than hindered his art. (Does this mean the Duggars should take up painting?)
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Scientists are going to study Stendhal syndrome by monitoring the vital signs of tourists as they view Florence’s Palazzo Medici Riccardi. Will they swoon or won’t they?
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A dried deer penis, bootleg "Lost" DVDs, a pitcher of salami, bongs, cow dung toothpaste, guinea pig meat, counterfeit viagra…just a few of the objects seized over five days at…
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The Globe and Mail explores savvy and stupid strategies arts organizations are using to promote themselves via social media.
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YouTube has increased its upload limit from 10 to 15 minutes! For some this means their video meisterstück can now play in its entirety. For others this means: "More wacky…
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The arts had a over a billion dollar total economic impact on North Texas in 2009, according to a just released study by the Business Council for the Arts. But,…
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Turrell fans and Quakers rejoice, James Turrell’s Skyspace in the Live Oak Friends Meeting House is open again after a more than two year closure. The roof window, which frames…
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Whether or not the $45 trove of glass photographic plates bought at a California garage sale is worth $200 million is still being debated. Some experts think they were created…