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How do we perceive art?  How do we value art? In case you missed the original, Pulitizer-prize winning article, it’s all here in the Washington Post’s piece by Gene Weingarten.

The Royal Meterological Society calls them undulatus asperatus, evidently a new cloud type that has been identified and deemed worthy of study.  Reprinted from Daily Dish.

Via design site MoCoLoco, stop-motion video of the Parisian street artist INVADER filmed for his upcoming exhibit at Jonathan LeVine Gallery.  My first intro to what is known as Rubickubism.

Social Souvenir is a community project by Danish designer Sebastian Campion and the Museum of Contemporary Art in Roskilde, Denmark.

300 T-shirts, each bearing a text fragment from a famous artist, are exhibited and put on sale at the Museum of Contemporary.

Visitors buy a T-shirt and provide name and address; the info is automatically enered in Google Maps, thereby making it possible to see where each T-shirt ends up after leaving the museum.

The whole concept works.  Great t-shirts — and a way to follow (and contribute to) Brownian motion via the web.  Worth a citation despite the ubiquity of BoingBoing.

Nothing like a little art in the morning.  The male version, among other things is available on Phillip Scott Johnson’s web site.

Thanks to reader SL.

[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X85A1dCpzsI&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fgizmodo.com%2F5226884%2Fno-this-dancing-buildings-bricks-are-not-falling-like-tetris&feature=player_embedded]Extremely cool art piece, the product of 7 HD projectors, the old mint in downtown SF, and the geniuses at Obscura Digital. Extraordinary, via Gizmodo.

By Seattle artist Scott Fife, available at Platform Gallery.

For Frango, via PopGloss.

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This video describes the process used by Google to capture 14 gigapixel images of fifteen Prado masterpieces.

To view them in incredible detail, visit Las Obras Maestras del Museo del Prado (you will need to install Google Earth).

Thanks to Gizmodo for the heads up.

Giotto’s ‘Noli me tangere’

Bob at Art Blog by Bob has another thoughtful and engaged perspectives on a great artist — Giotto this time — and everything form his influence on Michelangelo to his prefiguring Bosch, from his departure from the Byzantine to his prefiguring of the Renaissance.