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The fall art season is in full swing in New York, and we can barely keep up. It's a good week in particular for the bookish types, with both the New York Art Book Fair and the Brooklyn Book Festival coming to town, plus fall festivals launching in spades and two artist lectures.
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China has become famous for its shanzhai culture of imitation, and now, to a long list of arty knockoffs that includes everything from iconic paintings to pop art, we can add museum tickets. Specifically, tickets to the Louvre.
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I don't know about you, but I was enjoying my slow, lazy summer, and then all of a sudden it was Labor Day. The art world woke up, and I went from having a few museum exhibitions I needed to catch to feeling overwhelmed by the all of the shows. So, I decided to sort through and round up some of the
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Legend has it that Pablo Picasso was a lifelong Communist. But, as it turns out, it was more complicated than that.
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Our guide to this Friday's Greenpoint Gallery Night … featuring 15 galleries across North Brooklyn.
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This week, the openings continue, plus a discussion of the experimental black aesthetic and a chance to commission a personalized PowerSuit.
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A Colorado district court judge has ruled in Christo's favor in one of the lawsuits facing his controversial "Over the River" (OTR) project. Work on the piece, which would involve suspending a canopy of shiny, polypropylene fabric over a 42-mile stretch of the Arkansas River for two weeks, has been
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A week ago Wednesday night, I sat down in a green metal chair at the Minnesota State Fair Grandstand and watched an hour and a half of Internet cat videos on a giant screen alongside 10,000 people. When this little guy licked a vaccum cleaner, 10,000 of us chuckled together; when these sad cats lame
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Stereotypically, artists are known for being moody, brooding, depressed types. But a new study of working artists in Europe finds that they're actually much happier with their jobs than their non-artist counterparts.
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After 12 long years filled with bike lanes and billion-dollar developments, the Bloomberg era is finally drawing to a close. Next Tuesday in the primaries, New Yorkers will take their first steps toward choosing a new mayor. Here's our guide to how the candidates measure up in terms of the arts.
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If you've ever visited Governors Island, there's a good chance you've been charmed by it. Only eight minutes by ferry from Manhattan and three from Brooklyn, the island feels like a world apart from the rest of New York City, with its old military buildings and green landscape. It's also the home to
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Yesterday, Curbed NY posted a nifty map of 15 buildings in Manhattan that were originally built for artists. Ranging from projects with outside funding to artists' cooperatives, the 15 structures mostly dot Midtown and the Upper East and West Sides, with a few outliers in the West Village. It's fun