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Welcome to the World Outside Yourself

October 11, 2020February 22, 2021 Abbey Korte

Driving to a destination requires that the driver be alert and looking for signs indicating where they are headed. Anyone who drives is familiar with the road signs along the freeway or highway telling travelers that there is a McDonald’s and an Arco gas station and an Olive Garden somewhere

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Proximity\’s Relationship to Art and Crime

September 20, 2020February 14, 2021 Abbey Korte

Where and how artwork is displayed can oftentimes have just as much effect on the viewer’s experience as the artwork itself. A piece can be meant to be admired from afar, or from as close as possible – this can be pre-determined by the artist themselves or be a happenstance

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Putting a Face on Crime Toll

May 1, 2019February 14, 2021 Annaiza Castellanos

Residents of the poor industrial city in Mexico, Ecatepec, have dedicated themselves to a community art project that has become a Mexican obsession. The citizens of this town are focused on visualizing victimhood, which essentially means broadcasting real people from the data. Marco Hernandez Murrieta is the president of the

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What Keeps You Sane?

November 15, 2017February 14, 2021 Gavin Broughton

You probably have never seen anything like the work of Robert Crumb before. What lives inside his mind is sexual, racist, disturbing, sometimes pornographic, and in every instance, odd. Much of his work tells stories of incest, necrophilia, assault, and pure mayhem. In the 1994 documentary “Crumb,” we uncover every

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Masterful Art Forgery: Is Imitation the Sincerest Form of Flattery?

September 20, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Throughout the grand history of art, there has always been individuals who want to profit off the success of major Artists by forging works of art. The media loves a daring art forgery story, such as the in the case of a New York art dealer called Ely Sakhai, who

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Shameless Acts

September 7, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

For the most part, Shameless the American (and British) running TV show is a brilliant representation of the use of the word shameless. The show is about the Gallagher family, a low income household with a drunk father, severely bipolar mother and kids that practically raised themselves, with help from

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Surfing Madonna in San Diego County

September 5, 2017February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

In 2011, after Easter weekend, a mosaic mural appeared unannounced under a bridge in Encinitas, California, a beach town about 30 minutes north of San Diego. The 12-foot tall mosaic depicted the Virgen de Guadalupe, the Virgin Mary who was believed to have appeared before an Indian peasant named Juan

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Is it art or just a crime?

December 1, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Art often crosses over into crime and crime crosses over into art. The question is what makes something art and not just crime. What crime is art and what crime is just crime? What is our criteria for art even when a crime is involved? Does who you are play

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Her best performance yet?

December 1, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Marina Abramovic is touted as one of the most notable perfomance artists. She is nearly 70, and has an extensive profile of work. I recall vividly two of her works. The first features her and a lover, with an arrow poised to shoot at her. It’s part of a greater

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Skid Robot Takes Skid Row and More

September 30, 2015February 14, 2021 bgoeltzenleuchter

Skid Robot is a Los Angeles based graffiti artist whose mission is to raise awareness about the global crisis of extreme poverty and homelessness. Just in the past year Skid Robot and his art partner, Captain Save-a-Homeless, have been incorporating homeless people into their artwork by creating a frame around

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