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Artist avoids the term "installation"; developers to abandon "art game"?

Photo from Buren’s new exibit Daniel Buren, a conceptual artist known for his use of stripes, has a new exhibit that uses glass, stone, and fabric to transform the Grand Palais into a kaleidoscope of color. Understandably, Buren sees all art as part of the society and location from which it springs:

Move over Xbox logo. The Noun Project brings icons into the 21rst century.

Icons in religious art are easily discernable depictions of deity and angels. For believers who didn’t have easy access to scriptures, icons were a way they could remind themselves who they worshipped. Now we have icons that represent not only religious figures, but are pictograms for anything that

Pokemon gets a special exhibit at Suginami Animation Museum.

While American museums are slowly supporting popular animation, Japan’s Suginami Animation Museum has been eagerly embracing it since 2005. Their past exhibitions have examined Astro Boy and “eastern anime.”  The museum values anime even if it’s made for little kids.  This spring the Suginami Animat