Top stories published by DADA. Living Art. in August of 2012

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Aug 8, 2012

Ai Wei Wei: Never Sorry

This is an excellent documentary by young filmmaker Alison Klayman, about Ai Wei Wei, artist, activist and giant thorn on the side of the Chinese government. It shows how a smart conceptual thinker like Ai is exploiting the capabilities of technology, namely twitter and the internet, to…

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Aug 25, 2012

Thanks, Señora Cecilia!

By now, you must live under a rock if you haven’t heard about the poor Spanish elderly lady who took it upon herself to restore a badly damaged 19th century portrait of Jesus in a church in Borja, Spain. You probably have seen the appallingly funny before and after pictures.

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Aug 2, 2012

Artists We Love: Cindy Sherman

We recently saw the Cindy Sherman retrospective at MoMa and we loved her. That is to say, each and everyone of her, for Cindy Sherman has been taking pictures of herself since she was an art student, and has managed to become hundreds of different women, and sometimes men…

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Aug 9, 2012

Why Movies About Artists Suck

How many movies about visual artists have you ever seen that are not a total drag? Like most biopics, the lives of famous artists, whether painters, writers or composers, are usually not as dramatic and interesting as the lives and work of the artists themselves. Watching…

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Aug 21, 2012

Slow Art Day

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Apparently, most of us spend an average of a measly 17 seconds looking at a painting in a museum. Fifteen seconds is all we think we need to…

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Aug 18, 2012

Pussy Riot: An Art Meme Is Born

In no time, artists take their outrage viral in a visual way.

And we would be remiss if we didn’t include the one below. Too funny.

Most of the images were taken from Tumblr.

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Aug 1, 2012

The Greatest Films of All Time

…according to a poll by Sight & Sound magazine. For the first time in 50 years, Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane has been dethroned by Alfred Hitchcock’s Vertigo. What does it all mean?

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Aug 29, 2012

Join The Movement!

We are proud to announce that our landing page is out! There you can learn what DADA. Power To The Artists! is all about. And you can sign up to be among the first ones to try our Beta version, which is coming out very soon. Drop us a comment. Let us know what you think!

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Aug 17, 2012

Tribal Art

Hans Silvester has been taking photos of the people of the Omo Valley in Ethiopia. They have a great sense of style. Their body paint and decoration reflects the seasons and the changes in nature. They are natural artists.

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Aug 7, 2012

From The DADA Community: Adam Quinton

Who says you can’t judge a book by its cover?

Here are the book jacket illustrations of artist Adam Quinton. Click on the images to enlarge.

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These were the top 10 stories published by DADA. Living Art. in August of 2012. You can also dive into daily archives for August of 2012 by using the calendar at the top of this page.

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