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What is the Best Portable Blender?

What is the Best Portable Blender?

Can I take a Portable Blender on a Plane

What is the Best Portable Blender

We all want to pack light on travel. A light and portable blender will make your trip easy and comfortable. Why will you carry a big mixer if you need only one serving of smoothie in the morning? Let us look at some of the best portable blender for travel rather than the big brand of ninja bullet models.

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Art Market Predictions for 2020, Investigation at Remai Modern Art Museum, and More: Morning Links from December 23, 2019 - ARTnews

Art Market Predictions for 2020, Investigation at Remai Modern Art Museum, and More: Morning Links from December 23, 2019 – ARTnews

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A French appeals court upheld a ruling against Jeff Koons that found the artist had plagiarized a photograph to make a 1988 sculpture. AFP/Yahoo News

Banksy has installed a nativity scene, titled Scar of Bethlehem, in a hotel located in the city of Jesus’s birth. AP/Bloomberg

For the past…

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The Best Films of the Decade

The Best Films of the Decade

From The Look of Silence (courtesy Drafthouse Films)

The landscape of international cinema is nearly unrecognizable now compared to the end of the 21st century’s first decade. For both shooting and exhibition, film has been almost entirely eclipsed by digital. Media companies have consolidated to an even more frightening extent. Streaming has risen as the new, now-dominant mode of distribution.…

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A Previously Unseen Side of Betye Saar

A Previously Unseen Side of Betye Saar

Betye Saar, “Black Girl’s Window” (1969), Wooden window frame with paint, cut-and-pasted printed and painted papers, daguerreotype, lenticular print, and plastic figurine, 35 3/4 × 18 × 1 1/2″ (the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Gift of Candace King Weir through the Modern Women’s Fund, and Committee on Painting and Sculpture Funds. © 2019 Betye Saar, courtesy the artist and Roberts Projects,…

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Libro: La Quema del Año Viejo en Latinoamérica por Rodulfo Gonzalez

Libro: La Quema del Año Viejo en Latinoamérica por Rodulfo Gonzalez

Quema del Año Viejo en Latinoamerica por Rodulfo Gonzalez

Quema del Año Viejo en Venezuela por Rodulfo Gonzalez

La Quema del Año Viejo, como la Quema de Judas, es un monigote que se fabrica con ropa vieja, cartón o papel, relleno de paja, aserrín y frecuentemente con artefactos pirotécnicos y representa al año que culmina. Como lo indica su nombre, la ceremonia se lleva a efecto en, México,…

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An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade - ARTnews

An Art World Glossary for a Turbulent Decade – ARTnews

We were beset by influencers, grifters, and triggers. We worried about the Anthropocene, gentrification, the blockchain, and free speech. We occupied and decolonized. We canceled. There are many ways to take stock of the decade, and before this one slips away, we look back at the terminology that defined the era. This glossary includes new words that came into common usage over the past ten years…

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Woody Vasulka, Imaginative Filmmaker Who Inspired Generations of Video Artists, Is Dead at 82 - ARTnews

Woody Vasulka, Imaginative Filmmaker Who Inspired Generations of Video Artists, Is Dead at 82 – ARTnews

Back in the 1960s, when Woody Vasulka and his wife, the artist Steina, began experimenting with video technology, there was an assumption that, when people watched films and TV shows, they were separate from the machines around them. Woody and Steina knew this wasn’t true, however. “It sounds a bit silly because machines have no identity, but Steina and I discover certain unexpected nooks and…

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Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019? 12 Art-World Players Share Their Thoughts - artnet News

Which Emerging Artist Dominated 2019? 12 Art-World Players Share Their Thoughts – artnet News

There is never any shortage of cutting-edge work by rising art stars to get your fill of, and this year was no exception. With so much material to wade through, we asked curators and other art experts to tell us which names dominated 2019 and are worth keeping an eye on as we head into the new year. Below, 12 experts share their thoughts.

Tomashi Jackson

Tomashi Jackson, Dajerria All Alone…

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New Book: Why you must Play the Lottery

New Book: Why you must Play the Lottery

Why you must Play the Lottery by Juan Rodulfo

The first recorded signs of a lottery are keno slips from the Chinese Han Dynasty between 205 and 187 BC. These lotteries are believed to have helped to finance major government projects like the Great Wall of China. From the Chinese “The Book of Songs” (2nd millennium BC.) comes a reference to a game of chance as “the drawing of wood”, which in…

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Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us

Where Brenda Goodman’s Paintings Are Taking Us

Brenda Goodman, “Something Magical” (2019), oil on wood, 72 x 60 inches

PINE HILL, New York — There were four of us sitting in Brenda Goodman’s studio, built, as she said, into the side of a hill: Brenda, Linda Dunne, Elliot Green, and me. It was a bit awkward, as we had barely got ourselves seated when Brenda asked, in her usual blunt fashion: “What do you think?” You could have heard a pine…

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The History Paintings of Jenny Snider

The History Paintings of Jenny Snider

Jenny Snider, “Jenny Snider presents, Sergei Eisenstein’s AN AMERICAN TRAGEDY, by Theodore Dreiser” (2013-17), acrylic ink, watercolor, glitter, gold powder, leaves, canvas, cord, paper maché, Tylenol w/codeine, wood, and paper on linen, 66” x 66” x 75” (all images courtesy of the artist)

KINGSTON, New York — I have wanted to meet Jenny Sniderfor many years. Soon after I moved to New York in the…

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Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World

Best of 2019: Our Top 15 Exhibitions Around the World

Richard Mudariki, “The Passover” (2011) (photo Hrag Vartanian/Hyperallergic)

This year’s crop of art exhibitions were more diverse than ever, which made picking our top 15 favorites difficult (we added three honorable mentions), but we asked some staff members and contributors to offer their takes on what stood out this year.

From unique historical explorations of off-the-beaten-path modernism…

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What is Funko Pop Vinyl

What is Funko Pop Vinyl

What are Funko Pop Dolls

Funko Inc. is an American company that manufactures licensed pop culture collectibles, best known for its licensed vinyl figurines and bobbleheads. In addition, the company produces licensed plush, action figures, and electronic items such as USB drives, lamps, and headphones.

Founded in 1998 by Mike Becker, Funko was originally conceived as a small project to create…

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The Most-Read ARTnews Stories of 2019: From Mary Boone to the Banana - ARTnews

The Most-Read ARTnews Stories of 2019: From Mary Boone to the Banana – ARTnews

What a year. The United States government and its museums were shut down, KAWS was everywhere, auction records were set, and luminaries were lost. Here is a list of the 25 most-read stories on ARTnews.com from 2019. Thank you for reading.

– Hirshhorn Chair on the Government Shutdown, by Daniel Sallick, January 4

– 15 L.A. Artists to Watch, Maximilíano Durón & Alex Greenberger, January 9

– Mary…

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A Tribute to Agnès Varda’s Melding of the Personal and Political

A Tribute to Agnès Varda’s Melding of the Personal and Political

From Varda By Agnès (2019) dir. Agnès Varda (all images courtesy Film at Lincoln Center)

In the final years of her life, filmmaker Agnès Varda had a reputation as la petite grand-mère of arthouse film; she traveled around the world to film festivals and screenings dressed in flowing tunics and vivid scarves, often with a mischievous smile and always sporting her signature two-tone haircut.…

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Sarah Lucas Smashes Eggs in Beijing, Kent Monkman Goes Monumental, and More: Morning Links from December 20, 2019 - ARTnews

Sarah Lucas Smashes Eggs in Beijing, Kent Monkman Goes Monumental, and More: Morning Links from December 20, 2019 – ARTnews

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Here are the most-read ARTnews stories of 2019, from acquisitions to auction records to the deaths of art world luminaries. [ARTnews]

In partnership with the nonprofit film academy Ghetto Film School, Frieze Los Angeles has launched a $10,000 award for emerging filmmakers. The winner will…

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Week in Review: Hong Kongers Circulate Radical Christmas Cards; Mexico City Museum Workers Protest Wage Delays

Week in Review: Hong Kongers Circulate Radical Christmas Cards; Mexico City Museum Workers Protest Wage Delays

The many faces of the Santa Claus x LiPig crossover. (Courtesy of Freehkxmascard.)

Week in Review is a weekly collection of news, developments, and stirrings in the art world. Subscribe to receive these posts as a weekly newsletter.

In protest of delayed payments, a group of workers at the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (INBAL) in Mexico City closed the building and other…