A man once knocked Daniel Larkin off his bar stool and flung mean words. He got up, smiled, and laughed as the bouncer showed him out. He doesn't give anyone the power to rain on his parade. It's more important for Daniel to be happy than famous.
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Moles have been underrated by art history. They don't flaunt it like baroque peacocks, glow like medieval dragons, or bask in contradictions like post-modern minotaurs. But by burrowing tunnels, they blaze new paths and create alternate worlds under our feet.
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A packed house received Lucy Lippard for a wry lecture about her life as an arts writer at the New School on Wednesday, October 30. Staff from the Vera List Center for Art and Politics, which co-sponsored the event, stood leaning against the wall. Students sat on the floor.
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One trend that stood out at Gowanus Open Studios was that of abstract paintings with the formal sensibility of fire. It's less about literal depictions of fire. It's more about swaths of color that glow like raging bonfires, lines that flicker like the tips of flames, chromatic intensity worthy of a
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Last month's Greenpoint Gallery Night revealed a trend among contemporary artists: they're reveling in ways to make the sky look weird. (Isn't all contemporary art about weird these days?) Seriously, there were no kitschy sunsets or pretty blue skies or brooding storms to be found. No, what feels ri
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Not all shades of pink get equal attention. The glut of carnation pinks, the flood of hot pink, and the surges of magenta in street fashion, web design, and art — well, it adds up to a visual culture that leaves out other shades of pink. Cary Leibowitz's new solo show (paintings and belt buckles) is
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PORTLAND, Ore. — A label like psychedelic sculpture, for what it's worth, does justice to the gnarly stalactites and unorthodox mineral deposits of the Oregon Caves National Monument. Seriously, it's like walking through a three dimensional Grateful Dead album cover.
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An exhilarating summer group show at Greenpoint's Rawson Projects mightily tackles this euphoria-craving aspect of the human condition. With the name Self Help, the viewer is invited to ponder the various ways we can help ourselves unlock that rush of good feelings within our own minds.
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On the evening of May 10th, Greenpoint's art spaces were abuzz. It was the first Friday night when everyone agreed to stay open late, a coming of age moment for the district.
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Pierre Auguste Renoir, that painter of young doughy women, now takes his turn as the subject of a French art-house film. The simply-named film Renoir, directed by Gilles Bourdos, earns a solid B+. There's enough there to make a good evening out of it. But the film, like the painter, is too twee to b
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Why is the right to buy a gun so profound? Maybe because it's really about the right to be a badass. Black Power, a provocative show up for just six days at the Superchief Gallery at Culturefix, probes the connections between guns, badass characters, and race. With the gun-control conversation ragin
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Do you know Adonis? He's not like those other male nudes that only exist to flaunt their bodies. Adonis has a touch of the ethereal. Delicate, almost elvish, features lend a gentleness to his face. He's taut but not Herculean. He is mature but retains the slim, willowy frame of youth. This special k
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Isn't (the day after) Valentine's Day an ideal time for remembering the most seductive of all US presidents, Bill Clinton? Who else could have twisted the meaning of a cigar in the Oval Office and kept Hillary — who doesn't take shit from anyone (else)?