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East Harlem Committee Endorses Proposal to Tap 1% of Frieze NY Art Fair Revenue
At a meeting Tuesday night, the Economic Development, Culture & Tourism Committee of East Harlem's Community Board 11 (CB11) passed a resolution demanding that the Frieze Art Fair direct 1% of its revenues back to nonprofit organizations in the South Bronx and East Harlem.
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Artist Collective Withdraws from Whitney Biennial
The Yams Collective, the largest of the eight collectives participating in the 2014 Whitney Biennial, has withdrawn over objections to the curatorial program, Hyperallergic has learned.
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Going Inside: Outsider Art Fair 2014
After this year’s Outsider Art Fair, a Frieze Week corollary held at 548 West 22nd Street in Chelsea, closed on Sunday, the artist Mark Flood began taking over the space for an “Insider Art Fair” that opens today.
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Regina Rex Out Amid Gallery Shakeup at 17-17 Troutman
Regina Rex's closure Sunday was the first public development in a campaign begun six months ago by the building's landlord, David Steinberg, that placed pressure on the half-dozen gallery tenants in his loft building at 17-17 Troutman Street in Queens.
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The Story Behind Frieze New York's Decision to Hire Union Labor
After two years of protest, Frieze New York, the American offshoot of the London fair launched by the founders of the British magazine Frieze 11 years ago, will be employing union labor — in part this year and in full in 2015 and 2016.
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Unmanned Archival Vehicle: Wafaa Bilal at Driscoll Babcock
For whom do images of a conflict zone, as those Wafaa Bilal has recreated in his Ashes Series, bear witness? How is this memory constituted? In his first solo show at Driscoll Babcock, the artist and NYU professor takes as his starting point newswire photographs of destruction in Iraq, transforming
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Gulf Labor Monitoring Report Finds Ongoing Violations at Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
A report released this morning by Gulf Labor, a coalition of international artists, confirms the ongoing violation of local and international labor laws at the site of the Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Louvre Abu Dhabi, and Zayed National Museum, among other institutions.
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Helly Nahmad Sentenced to One Year in Prison over Gambling Ring
Hillel "Helly" Nahmad, scion of the Nahmad art dealing family, was sentenced today to one year and one day in prison over the gambling charges to which he pled guilty last November.
Opinion
New York Times Dramatizes Absurd Legal Transcript
A new video series at the New York Times seeks to remedy the suspension of disbelief often required when dealing with the absurd in "court trials, depositions, or government hearings."
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Pushing Paper in Quebec
MONTREAL — Entry was free but the carpet still red, a rain-sodden lilt up entrance stairs. And under drab skies the people came. Here, tonguing the periphery of Montreal's infamous red light district, was Papier14, the works-on-paper fair's seventh annual iteration.
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New York City Subway Maps Across Time
Municipal signage and schematics, as design firm Pentagram's recent work on New York's beach and parking signage attests, can play a significant role in (re)defining the character of urban space.