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14

What.You.Need.To.Know. or This Week Top Posts on Hyperallergic My Chuck Close Problem — When one of the world’s richest living artists orders you to stop making art, you do it. Or do you?  Why I Deleted My Facebook Account — Deleting my Facebook account was a four-day affair. Twitter as Art — After thinking through the idea of Tumblr as art, I began to find the difference between various social media platforms glaringly obvious. Marshall McCluhan’s phrase “the medium is the message” came to mind. How do settings and mediums change or possibly mandate artistic intention? After exploring Tumblr’s unique qualities, I wanted to expand the focus to another relatively new platform for artistic creation, Twitter. How To Talk About Art: Conceptual Art Edition — You need to read this because you don’t want to be caught with your pants down in front of some inexplicable wall full of squiggles: not only will you get arrested (umm…maybe), but you’ll look like a schmuck. Renewing Your Faith in Painting UK Plans New Digital Arts Funding Platform Making an Artistic Life in Northern Michigan Manhattan’s Art of the Dead Photo caption: Scott Blake self-portrait made with color tiles (2008) (all images courtesy the artist)

What.You.Need.To.Know. or This Week Top Posts on Hyperallergic

  • My Chuck Close Problem — When one of the world’s richest living artists orders you to stop making art, you do it. Or do you? 
  • Twitter as Art — After thinking through the idea of Tumblr as art, I began to find the difference between various social media platforms glaringly obvious. Marshall McCluhan’s phrase “the medium is the message” came to mind. How do settings and mediums change or possibly mandate artistic intention? After exploring Tumblr’s unique qualities, I wanted to expand the focus to another relatively new platform for artistic creation, Twitter.
  • How To Talk About Art: Conceptual Art Edition — You need to read this because you don’t want to be caught with your pants down in front of some inexplicable wall full of squiggles: not only will you get arrested (umm…maybe), but you’ll look like a schmuck.

Photo caption: Scott Blake self-portrait made with color tiles (2008) (all images courtesy the artist)

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