Art
From Surface to Air at Two Bushwick Galleries
The soapbox derby is fine-tuned American nostalgia (or was it tradition?), a rugged pursuit combining patrilineal bonding with the values of shopworn ingenuity and competition.
Mostafa Heddaya
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Much Ado About Marina Abramović's "Nothing"
An upcoming Marina Abramović show about "nothing" at London's Serpentine Gallery has found several prominent art historians and critics at odds with the artist and Serpentine curator Hans-Ulrich Obrist.
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Yams Collective Screens Whitney Biennial Video in Brooklyn
The 38-member collective of artists that withdrew from the Whitney Biennial two weeks ago, known as the Yams Collective or HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN?, is screening its pulled contribution along with other material in an alternative Brooklyn space tonight and tomorrow.
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Alumni and Students File Suit Against Cooper Union Over "Mismanaged" Endowment
Five alumni and admitted students have filed suit against Cooper Union's board of trustees, alleging that their behavior leading up to the historic end of free tuition violated duties prescribed by the school's charter, the Wall Street Journal reported.
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East Harlem Subsidized Artist Housing Opens for Applications
A former public school on 99th Street in Harlem redeveloped into artist housing under the auspices of El Barrio's Operation Fight Back has recently begun accepting tenant applications.
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Fire Rages in Glasgow School of Art's Historic Mackintosh Building [Updated]
A blaze erupted around noon GMT at the Glasgow School of Art's historic Mackintosh Building completed in 1909, the Scotsman reported.
Opinion
Saluting Sun Ra at 100
The artist known as Sun Ra would have turned 100 years old today. In death, as in life, the man born Herman Poole Blount on May 22nd, 1914 is a forceful enigma, an influence on more than a generation of musicians, thinkers, and artists.
Art
Inside the Newly Renovated Chrysler Museum of Art
NORFOLK, Virginia — A museum redesign today conjures the towering ambition of statement architecture, images of an aesthetically belabored addition jutting out from an austerely classical building. But the Chrysler Museum of Art, which reopened May 10 after a significant overhaul and extension, is n
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Emirates Censors International New York Times Over Saadiyat Labor Report
The International New York Times publishing partner in the United Arab Emirates has declined to print the May 20 edition of the paper over a front-page story on labor abuses on the country's Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.
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Front-Page NYT Report Confirms Gulf Labor Findings on Saadiyat Island
A front-page investigative story published in the New York Times today has confirmed previous allegations of labor abuses in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), echoing the findings of the Guardian, Human Rights Watch, and — most recently — the Gulf Labor activist group.
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Whitney Museum to Offer Year of Free Admission to Construction Workers
At a hard-hat tour of the Whitney's Renzo Piano-designed building in downtown Manhattan earlier this month, it was announced that the institution plans to extend a year of museum membership to the project's construction workers.
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Corcoran Merger with George Washington University and National Gallery Finalized
The Corcoran Gallery of Art's absorption into George Washington University (GWU) and the National Gallery of Art in Washington, first announced in February, has been finalized, the Washington Post reported.