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Last night to the accompaniment of much fanfare and celebrity attendance German conceptual “artist's artist” Hans-Peter Feldmann [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans-Peter_Feldmann] won the Guggenheim's Hugo Boss Prize [Hugo Boss prize], a biannual award that comes with a cool $100,000. Feldmann wasn'
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New York Art Book Fair kicks off today, so if you like print media AND contemporary art as much as we do (even though we're online), there's only place to be this weekend: MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, where the fair is being held. Hosted by AA Bronson, president of NYC art media shop and proponent
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A Facebook post is sometimes a dangerous thing. When Artinfo's “What's Troubling about the Smithsonian's Gay Art Show [http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/36233/whats-troubling-about-the-smithsonians-gay-art-show/],” re-titled “What's Troubling About the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek Show,” article was post
Opinion
Reports hold that Purple Magazine editor Olivier Zahm, widely known for being a skeezy dude who documents his love sex life obsessively online on Purple's Diary, is just super into the ladies. Says Rachel Chandler, a Purple contributor, “A lot of people think he’s a sexist pig... What they don’t get
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Prospect.1 New Orleans was the biggest biennial ever staged on US soil, and that's the least of the accomplishments of Dan Cameron's 2008 exhibition. The show brought attention to what continues to be an area badly damaged by disaster and in danger of falling out of the public eye. Prospect 1.0 was
Opinion
A November 2, Supreme Court hearing attempted to answer the question of whether or not video games are free speech, reports the New York Times [http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/03/us/03scotus.html]. How do we decide what constitutes violence in a video game, and who has access to it? Contemporary art
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The New Museum's “Free [http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/429/free]” exhibition is based on the freedom of cultural exchange that has followed the advent of the internet and digital technology. Following up on that emphasis on online activity, the exhibition's catalogue is entirely digital as wel
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A rare Modigliani nude hit the auction block at Sotheby's Impressionist and Modern sale last night, and the painting didn't disappoint. Bidding opened at $38 million and skyrocketed from there: five telephone bidders pushed the price up to a record-breaking $68,962,500, Artinfo reports [http://www.a
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When Anselm Kiefer took the stage at 92nd Street Y last night, it wasn't as the artistic-political bad boy the artist became famous as in the 60s and 70s, nor was it the epic mythologist of the 80s and 90s. Now, Kiefer cuts a figure of mischievous respect, a patrician of the contemporary art world w
Opinion
With the news of Jeff Koons new mansion rising on the Upper East Side comes the tantalizing thought of what it would be like to hang out in some other superstar artists' homes. Studios are cool and all, but the real fun would come with the art-installation living rooms and the nursery that looks mor
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Curated by Bice Curiger, best known as the editor-in-chief and co-founder of the respected art magazine Parkett, the 2011 Venice Biennale will be titled ILLUMInations, in a play on words and typography that now comes standard for big deal exhibitions. The name is a combo of “illuminate” and “nations
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To see the New Museum’s Free exhibition [http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/429/], you'll have to fork over at least enough dough to make the $12 admission fee. For an exhibition that’s all about the limitless dispersion of culture quickly, easily and cheaply through the internet, the title presen