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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