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We Tasted (and Reviewed) Kenny Scharf's NEW Donuts
When we first heard that artist Kenny Scharf would be teaming up with Doughnut Plant to create a limited-edition line of donuts, we knew we had to have them … and then review them.
Jillian Steinhauer
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Tracing a Path from Cubism to Digital Art
I first learned about Cubism in an art history class my sophomore year of college. I remember the moment of revelation, after reading a lot about but still failing to grasp what exactly Picasso and Braque were after. In the darkened lecture hall one afternoon, our teacher summed it up this way: how
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Art Rx
This week the doctor wants to shake things up a bit, so she's sending you off in search of the funky, the experimental, and the unexpected.
Opinion
FAT Lab's KATSU Graffities Paula Cooper Gallery (Inadvertently)
F.A.T. Gold, the mini retrospective celebrating art/hacker/open-source activist collective Free Art and Technology (F.A.T.) Lab, has been open for about 20 minutes at Eyebeam, and they're already pissing people off.
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Brazil Evicts Indigenous People in Violent Clash Over Sports Stadium
Brazilian police dressed in riot gear stormed an old museum in Rio de Janeiro last week with tear gas and pepper spray in order to evict some 20 indigenous people squatting there. The building, the former site of the Brazilian Indian Museum, is adjacent to the Maracanã stadium and set to be demolish
Opinion
Jews in a Box
As anyone who's ever been expected to represent their entire religion/race/ethnicity/gender/world view knows, it's a pretty difficult task. And yet this is what it seems random volunteers are being asked to do for an exhibition that opened at Berlin's Jewish Museum a week and a half ago. The show, t
Opinion
The Man Who Led 1990s Art Censorship Scandal Is Running for NYC Mayor
The name Joseph J. Lhota may not be a household one (yet), but the current Republican mayoral candidate has done a lot in his time in New York City politics. Art worlders may remember him as the man who led the Giuliani administration's push to bully the Brooklyn Museum into censoring an artwork fro
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Did Chicago Public Schools Ban a Classic Graphic Novel?
In a strange and troubling move that looks suspiciously like censorship, Chicago Public Schools have removed Persepolis, a classic graphic novel that tells the story of author Marjane Satrapi's coming-of-age in Iran, from all seventh-grade classrooms.
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The Lonely Books That No One Borrows
What is the fate of a library book that never gets checked out? Does it stay in the library anyway, holding fast in its place, waiting for someone to borrow it? Or does it eventually get cast off, donated to a thrift or used bookstore or incorporated into the collection of a place like Brooklyn's Re
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How to Apply to Art School in China
All of these photos come from Shandong, where, according to the People's Daily Online, nearly 10,000 people applied to get into the Shandong University of Art and Design this year.
Opinion
Yoko Ono Offers Impossible Make-Up Tips for Men
Yoko Ono is usually a bit much for me: I find things like smile apps and instruction pieces that tell you to "Make a wish" and "Keep wishing" cloyingly precious. (Maybe I'm just a cranky, cynical New Yorker.) But Ono has a new video called "Make-Up Tips for Men" (made as part of her clothing line fo
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor's prescription comes in the form of the theme: arty encounters with the everyday.