October 21 -- A self-taught artist, inspired by Tin-Tin in his youth, is putting the DRC on the map with his incredible work as a cartoonist. He was recently invited to take part in the 6th Festival of Comics in Algeria.
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Brooklyn-based artist Diana Al-Hadid travels to the 55th Venice Biennale, where she tours the exhibition and speaks candidly with five of her peers about their work. "It is fascinating to see what problems other artists are solving," says Al-Hadid, "and what curiosities they're pursuing that sometimes feel very similar to the curiosities [I'm] pursuing." Published on Oct 18, 2013 
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Donna Kukama is tired of the gallery space — but she intends to stay inside the system and to make the most of it by subverting it. The winner of the Standard Bank Young Artist Award for performance art is a whacky talent, an artist who places herself in real-life situations, doing almost ordinary things. Viewing her work, one wonders: Is this performance or is this just an act of living? A multimedia artist, Donna Kukama completed her postgraduate studies at the Ecole Cantonale d'Art du Valais in Sierre, Switzerland, and her work has been seen at the Joburg Art Fair, Art Miami, ARCO Madrid and Focus11 in Basel.
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Nicky Nodjoumi's artwork walks a fine line between art and politics. After the ousting of the Shah in 1979, the new Khomeini regime began strictly regulating artistic expression. Nodjoumi was exiled after a Tehran exhibition in 1980. "They saw the show and they labeled me as anti-revolution, anti-Khomeini, and anti-regime."
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Last Sunday, Str.Crd Johannesburg, 15hr39. Photos by Paul Ward
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On October 5th, 2012 David Blaine partnered with Intel to embark on his most challenging and visual performance stunt to date. Standing high up on a platform for 73 hours and surrounded by 1 million volts of electricity, David invited the world to interact and control the electricity through Intel based Ultrabooks. This is the behind the scenes story of Electrified.
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Silhouettes in Popenguine, Senegal in May 2013. Photo by Jane Hahn
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If you want to see Africa in a different light you should think of following Everyday Africa. Here’s what they’re about: “ The common media image of the African continent is one of extremes - but how can we identify the extremes without first establishing the norms? Everyday Africa is a collection of daily life images from across the continent, focusing on the mundane and the familiar. As journalists who have lived or spent significant amounts of time on the continent, we find the extreme not nearly as prevalent as the everyday.”
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British sculptor Kate MccGwire (previously) creates uncanny organic sculptures from layers of bird feathers. The objects she creates are so precisely assembled that they seem to form hybrid creatures with tentacles or limbs that twist and curve into unexpected forms.
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Comedian and art enthusiast Frank Skinner explores performance art and its origins; from dada and surrealism through to Yoko Ono and Joseph Beuys.
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A short but useful synopsis of the performance art movement. Just note that there is some nudity in the video.
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Alpha Longboards owner Kent Lingeveldt talks to CNN's Errol Barnett about designing and building his artistic boards.
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Mike Kelley’s retrospective travels to New York City, Hiroshi Sugimoto is given carte blanche in Paris, Laurie Anderson is omnipresent in Austin, and lots more in this week’s roundup.
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Created by Colombian artist Otoniel Borda Garzón, this towering 40 foot (12 meter) torando of scrap wood was installed last year as a centerpiece at the Bogota International Art Fair. Garzón is known for his twisting organic vortices constructed primarily from old pieces of lumber that seem to dominate gallery spaces, an ongoing series of work he refers to simply as Reserva. You can see more of this twisting sculpture over on Behance.
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Bjorn Geldhof, Deputy Artistic Manager of the PinchukArtCentre talking about the work by Ai Weiwei: Forever Bicycle at China China show at the PinchukArtCentre In Ai Weiwei's "first large-scale solo exhibition to be held anywhere in the ethnic Chinese world," Taipei Fine Arts Museum's 'Ai Weiwei absent' is nothing short of astounding, the highlight the artist's 'Forever Bicycles' installation, which was made specifically for this exhibition out of 1,200 bicycle units.
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Find out what has led researchers to the conclusion that Sunset at Montmajour is a Van Gogh painting. Van Gogh Museum researchers Teio Meedendorp and Louis van Tilborgh and conservator Oda van Maanen take you behind the scenes of this research.
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Photographer Pieter Hugo's latest exhibition is a 'jolting meditation' on family, kinship and decaying nationhood. Marriage and the birth of his two children have acutely sharpened his awareness of the difficult – historical, social, economic – context in which he is raising a family. Hugo is transparent about this in his work. Kin includes numerous portraits of his immediate family, among them a 2009 portrait of his grandmother, Anna Hugo. His parents, Lize and Gideon Hugo, also agreed to be photographed in bed, at the family's beach retreat at Gonnemanskraal on the West Coast. From this place of blood and intimacy, the circle of affinity incrementally widens.
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Art history (and all history, for that matter) has shortchanged women for a long time. A recent article about the authorship of the earliest cave paintings—the earliest images made by human beings—sets the discrimination clock back tens of thousands of years. Archaeologist Dean Snow studied the hand prints found in caves containing prehistoric artwork and found that 75% of the handprints were those of women.
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Ai Weiwei mounts 3,144 bicycles, Marina Abramović installs her version of The Scream, Alfredo Jaar creates a symphony of crying babies, and more.
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How to be creative? There’s no simple answer to that question, and no shortage of people offering answers. The latest episode of PBS’ Off Book video series features four figures — an author, cognitive psychologist, filmmaker, and computer scientist — all trying to put their fingers on the elusive things that make creativity happen. Their thoughts and advice are varied. But if you put them all together, you may make strides in your own creative life.
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Tate's curators introduce the new displays at Tate Britain, from 1540 to the present. This week, Chris Stephens explores the work of Henry Moore.
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Artists are dressing up - or undressing - to make a point about who they really are. But is the spectacle more than just cheap drag?
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A beautiful, stop-motion Japanese music video of the song “Katachi“ by Shugo Tokumaru which features 2,000 silhouettes cut with the help of a CNC router. You can read more about the making of the video here.
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Banksy's new art show "Better Out Than In" has New Yorkers and visitors alike scrambling to see his daily graffiti artwork in various city locations before it gets covered up
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In 2011 a massive earthquake and tsunami wrecked the Fukushima nuclear plant, resulting in a meltdown that became the world's worst atomic crisis in 25 years. About 160,000 people living near the plant were ordered to move out..and they are struggling to contain contaminated water at the site 240 km north of Tokyo. There have been multiple leaks and glitches over the last two and a half years. Damir Sagolj returned to this area last month and captured these haunting images.
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Legendary street artist Banksy has continued “Better Out Than In” — a month-long art show in the streets of New York City — with a new piece each day. Banksy posted “Westside” on October 2nd, a work that demonstrates a New York accent with creative graffiti. On October 3rd, Banksy used Instagram to unveil “Midtown,” a piece that depicts a dog urinating on a fire hydrant that’s thinking “You complete me…” Previously, we wrote about the first painting in the month-long exhibit, “The Street is in Play.”
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