In touting the new artCircles app, New York Times tech blog contributor Bob Tedeschi expresses preference for looking at the Mona Lisa on an iPad over seeing it in person.

Critic Jonathan Jones on new work by artist Damien Hirst: "The last time I saw paintings as deluded as Damien Hirst's latest works, the artist's name was Saif al-Islam Gaddafi." And that's just the first sentence.

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  • Michele Carlson

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    Michele Carlson is a practicing artist, writer, and educator whose interdisciplinary research investigates the intersections of history and memory, loss, race, gender, transnational adoption, racial melancholia, and popular culture. She lives and works in the San Francisco Bay Area where she completed an MFA in Printmaking and an MA in Visual & Critical Studies from the California College of the Arts.

    Carlson’s visual work has been exhibited nationally at venues, including Patricia Sweetow Gallery, the San Francisco Arts Commission, Intersection for the Arts in San Francisco and the Korean Cultural Center in Los Angeles. Recently, her writing has been published in Art in America, Art Practical, and several exhibition catalog essays. She has developed and currently teaches undergraduate and graduate courses related to Asian American Studies, Visual and Critical Studies, Art History and Visual Arts at the University of California—Davis, California College of the Arts, and several other Bay Area colleges.

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