Nintendo Museum to Open in a Defunct Kyoto Factory
The Japanese electronic and video game franchise plans to convert one of its factories into the world's first Nintendo museum.
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How Anime Legend Hayao Miyazaki’s Son Squandered Studio Ghibli’s Legacy
Studio Ghibli's new film Earwig and the Witch is a turn to computer-rendered animation, but it doesn't capture the old Ghibli magic of hand-drawing.
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Handmade Visuals in Video Games Can Signal a Different Kind of Play
Deprioritizing the game industry's demands for productivity in favor of purposeful self-discovery is what handmade game design is all about.
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Jacolby Satterwhite
Jacolby Satterwhite's exhibition at Gavin Brown's enterprise transformed the gallery into a kind of nightclub—that ultimate escapist's paradise.
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Qiu Anxiong
Through his "naive" eyes, Qiu allows us to glimpse a more organic version of technology, and perhaps to begin to discover a path out of technology's totalizing reach.
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Matt Bollinger
The thirteen new paintings in Matt Bollinger's recent exhibition, "Between the Days," play multiple roles. First, they serve as static vignettes portraying the lives and personal belongings of a…
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Technically Funny: Ben Jones on Television
All of the art collectives Ben Jones has been involved in—most visibly Paper Radio with Christopher Forgues and Paper Rad with Jacob and Jessica Ciocci—have been characterized by a weird mix of punk s…
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Bodies in the Expanded Field: Animation at the Hirshhorn
“I am the mouth that produces waves,” intones a disembodied pair of lips, half-submerged in a rippling lagoon. “My words are the vibrations that produce waves of pressure and displacement.” When visit…
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Morning Links: King Tut Edition
The Williams College Museum of Art will receive 68 artworks from Peter Norton of antivirus software fame. The gift includes works from Tracey Emin, Adrian Piper, Allan Ruppersberg, Nayland…
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In the Studio: Tommy Hartung
When it comes to the Bible, Tommy Hartung has some unique qualifications. Raised on a modest farm in Sheridan, a tiny rural town in upstate New York midway between Buffalo and Erie, Penn., the…
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