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Berlin's famous Tacheles, a sprawling art center housed in a former department store, was effectively shut down this week, as the owner of the building, HSH Nordbank, moves forward with plans to sell it.
Art
This week more shows are openings in Chelsea than the doctor would care to count, but she's chosen a few that sound particularly exciting. There's also an artist-led run out of Bushwick, a historical tennis match, an artists' beauty salon, and more. Art season has begun!
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The conventions are here; election season is officially upon us. I figure, since everyone's already busy having strong opinions and heated discussions about all sorts of political issues, why not throw another one into the mix, something all of us can tweet and roll our eyes and get annoyed about?
Interview
It all started last fall, with the bat signal seen round the world. On the November 17 Day of Action, a group of Occupy Wall Street activists projected a series of phrases and statements onto the Verizon building near the Brooklyn Bridge. "99% … Look around, you are part of a global uprising," the s
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The Pussy Riot sentencing has come and gone, but there's still plenty happening in Russia as the country deals with the aftermath of the highly publicized, highly political trial that focused international attention — most of it disapproval and outrage — on the Putin government.
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It only took 50 years, but Campbell's is finally paying tribute to pop artist Andy Warhol and his game-changing paintings of their soup cans. Starting this weekend, the company will release 1.2 million special-edition cans with Warhol-inspired labels, although in this case that mostly just means bri
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As we detailed two weeks ago, Mitt Romney made it clear in a recent interview with Fortune magazine that funding the arts is not his priority. Obama and his team haven't exactly responded with a resounding defense or promotion of the arts (Will Brand speculates on why over at the L Magazine), but la
Art
This week, before the upcoming marathon of fall openings, it's your last chance to visit a few shows about to close — plus the Governors Island Art Fair, a new artist discussion series in Brooklyn and more. Who needs vacation when you've got art?
Opinion
Our profound thanks go out to Boing Boing today for unearthing Adrian Maben's Monsieur René Magritte, an amazing short documentary about René Magritte from 1978. For those not familiar with the artist (although you've probably seen reproductions of some of his most famous images), allow our narrator
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Even before the current documentary about him was out in theaters, Ai Weiwei had become the poster child for China's repression of dissenting artists. But Der Spiegel has a profile of 30-year-old Zhao Zhao, a former assistant of Ai's and an artist in his own right who's been facing increased pressur
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Facebook is building an extension of its campus in Silicon Valley, and, in a signal that it it is a Company to Be Taken Seriously, it has tapped renowned architect Frank Gehry to design the new building.
Opinion
For some mystifying reason, a lot of New Yorkers are still having a hard time accepting that bikes (and accompanying bike lanes) are a good thing for the city — an efficient, healthy and environmentally friendly form of transportation. And yet, despite the resistance, it's clear from just walking an