Arts
European artists protest budget cuts by destroying their art, including at museums
An Italian museum is the highest profile examples of European artists protesting budget cuts by burning their art. At the Casoria Contemporary Art Museum, director Antonio Manfredi has promised to burn three pieces per week until his funding is improved. He's already burned some pieces, so he's not bluffing.
Lawsuit seeks to place limits on fair use appropriation of others' work in art
A controversial lawsuit being waged right now would change the way transformative artists work. A photographer, Patrick Cariou, sued artist Richard Prince, saying that Prince's art is a ripoff of Cariou's photos. The decision in this lawsuit could have far-reaching implications....
VIDEO: The Passover story, recounted through shadow dance
Passover, the festival honoring the Jewish emancipation from slavery in Egypt, begins Friday night at sundown. The Passover story has been told through numerous mediums, now including silhouette choreography....
Eyebrows raised as Kickstarter touts its increased funding of the arts
Kickstarter, the crowd-funding platform that collects donations for creative projects of all kinds, contributed $67 million to arts projects in 2011. According a Kickstarter founder, the site is on track to distribute more money to the arts in 2012 than the National Endowment for the Arts....
Pop-up Kimchi shop in Germany seeks to help people understand diversity
Two artists in Berlin have setup a Kimchi shop. They're not selling the Korean dish, though. They're bartering for it, and, in the process, hoping to get people talking about issues of diversity and differences....
New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects
The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition that showcases how people interact with the objects in their everyday world, and the emotions they provoke....
Scientists show off their profession in tattoos
A writer blogged about a friend of his — a scientist — who had a particular tattoo: a strand of DNA. All of the sudden, other scientists came out of the woodwork to show off their odd ink....
Jesse Eisenberg discusses his new work, the off-Broadway play 'Asuncion'
In the wake of his success with The Social Network, Jesse Eisenberg is performing in an off-Broadway play he also wrote, called Asuncion....
Russia's underground artists have new target: Putin
Russia's protest artists are pioneering new forms of risky, highly public dissent, aimed at mocking Putin, Medvedev and the political class....
Mexico's political cartoonists fight drug war
Political cartoonists in Mexico have started a campaign to educate people about the violence of the drug war in their country, which has claimed well over 40,000 lives....
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