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If you're hoping to see some art tonight but also don't want to leave your couch, we have a solution: Beginning at 8:30 pm, the international internet performance art festival Low Lives will begin broadcasting online, with performances from artists around the world, including a number in Brooklyn.
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Oy! The Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) at JFK airport wants to dismantle and remove a work inside that terminal, "Star Sifter," by renowned American sculptor Alice Aycock.
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Just when many Americans thought that government funding for the arts was going the way of the dodo, last month New York State passed a budget that included a $4 million increase in grants funding to the State Council on the Arts. That morsel of budgetary fact may have been lost on many, but Assembl
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Attention street art aficionados: a new public work by Faile has landed in Williamsburg! The piece, helpfully titled "104 N. 7th," departs from the pop-art collage aesthetic the duo's best known for and features instead thousands of hand-painted, sculpted ceramic tiles covering the facade of a comme
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The recently deceased Thomas Kinkade may have had barely any effect on the contemporary art world (beyond a thoughtful essay or two), but the influence of the artist I'd call the original painter of light, Claude Monet, has waned little over the past century. And currently two Monet-inspired exhibit
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Everyone hopes that the missing art from the Chelsea Hotel will reappear after the current renovation. But even if it does, there’s no question that the passing of the hotel’s ownership from beloved landlord Stanley Bard to mega-developer Joseph Chetrit marks the end of an era. To celebrate that era
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While a crowd of roughly 150 people sat and chatted in the Brooklyn Museum’s auditorium last Thursday night, waiting for the appearance of the Guerrilla Girls, Christina Aguilera played over the sound system. “What a girl wants, what a girl needs,” she sang — lines and a melody that came as somethin
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The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology is over a thousand pages long. It includes poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg, and by thousands of lesser- and unknown writers from around the world. The work is in multiple languages. And it’s coming to a library near you.
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If most people think of contemporary Baltimore as the land of John Waters, then maybe the Baltimore Museum of Art's growing presence on the contemporary art scene may help diversify people's perceptions beyond the drag queen Divine and campy gay bars. The museum announced details yesterday about the
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When all the art disappeared from the walls of the iconic Chelsea hotel last fall, where did it go? The Larry Rivers Foundation is the latest group trying to find out. Rivers’s “Syndics of the Drapery Guild as Dutch Masters,” a paint and wood piece that’s part of a series riffing on Rembrandt, is on
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Activists/artivists/culture jammers The Yes Men released an ingenious new parody this morning called “Three Strikes, You’re In!”
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Art lovers in attendance at last night’s conversation with Werner Herzog at the New York Public Library were fortunate enough to hear a little of the backstory behind Herzog’s participation in this year’s Whitney Biennial. The inclusion of the celebrated filmmaker in the exhibition took many art-wor