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The ADAA Art Show marked its 25th anniversary this year, and the 2013 edition at the Park Avenue Armory was definitely a very mature, stately fair, with only the slightest of dark undertones to its otherwise unsurprising, but elegantly sleek, presentation.
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The private homes of mid-century creators are vanishing. As most architects, designers, and artists who worked in the modern design movements of the 1950s and '60s are reaching their twilight years or have already passed on, the houses in which they explored their personal visions are often broken u
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Launched last month by EatSleepDraw, a lively online art gallery of user-submitted content, ArtSnacks is a new subscription delivery service of five curated art products for artists to sample each month, delivered in a special, hand-wrapped package that's sure to inspire bursts of creativity.
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There's something about entering a school that always gives a feeling of déjà vu, with the pastel-hued hallways and orderly lines of desks likes ghosts of the past. That's something that makes the SPRING/BREAK Art Show's return to the Old School on Mott Street something of a challenge, in that the c
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The intensified activism of the 1960s fueled by the Vietnam War and struggles over class inequality, women's rights, and black liberation drove the rapid growth of the underground press. Between 1965 and 1969, the five indie counterculture newspapers scattered across the United States multiplied to
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Part of aviation architecture history may soon be lost if Delta's expansion project at JFK airport goes forward as planned. Terminal 3, built in 1960 and designed by Ives, Turano & Gardner Associated Architects as the Pan Am Terminal, later renamed the Pan An Worldport, is expected to close this May
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If you can possibly get over the adorable thing that is happening in this photo, let's think about why exactly a bunch of cute dachshunds acting as 36 dog delegates in a replica United Nations assembly on Human Rights might be successful as a sort of experimental theatre. Australian artist Bennett M
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Who cares about bad graffiti or street art? The spray paint scrawls of ill-chosen tag names ("Piggy Nasty," "Pony Tail," "Tricky Trout, Jr."), reckless vulgarity (penises and boobs drawn on absolutely everything), and sad drawings that barely shape into the animal, face, or whatever they're trying t
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The South Bronx-based arts community center Rebel Diaz Arts Collective was reportedly shut down yesterday and locked out of their converted warehouse space. A rally/press conference is being held tonight at 6 pm outside their building at 478 Austin Place.
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Between 1968 and 1977, Mingering Mike released around 50 albums, each with its own hand-drawn album art, and played sold-out shows around the world. Yet if you haven't heard of the prolific soul and funk singer, it's because he was entirely fictional, but the art was real and has just been acquired
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Anyone on the mailing list for the Brooklyn Lyceum, the arts venue on the border of Park Slope and Gowanus at Fourth Avenue and President Street, has probably noticed the increasing agitation from owner Eric Richmond over the building's foreclosure auction. The auction of the building (at 227-231 Fo
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Sequestered by the sea and the A train still out until at least June, the Rockaways and the continued rebuilding there from the devastation of Hurricane Sandy can be easy to overlook. MoMA PS1 along with MoMA's Department of Architecture and Design are holding a call for ideas for what could be a mo