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One February evening, Brooklyn-based artist Enrico Miguel Thomas carried his drawing board a few paces away from where he had been illustrating from a counter in Grand Central — leaving behind a bag full of markers and a folded-up easel. After a brief moment of gathering the necessary detail on his
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André Malraux, the prolific French critic and Minister of Culture under Charles de Gaulle, once wrote that art is an "anti-destin," a revolt against destiny. And by that measure, the country's recently-released report calling for a tax on internet-connected devices to fund cultural production qualif
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Last night, at a little before 11 pm EST, Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha spontaneously ended a community forum he was holding in the basement of the Foundation Building and ascended to his seventh floor office to face his critics for the first time. The result was a rather long and uninspir
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If getting fired is unpleasant, what of that special hell where hundreds of your staff and colleagues publicly call for your resignation? Just ask Cooper Union president Jamshed Bharucha, whose imperious refusal to communicate even the most threadbare reaction to his mounting critics has added a new
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The labor headache continued apace on Randall's Island this morning, as Susanne Vielmetter arrived at her eponymous gallery to find Andrea Bowers's much-discussed protest letters taken down and the entrance of her cube cordoned off by a white string. "I'm shocked," she told Hyperallergic, "I never e
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French import Cutlog, the latest fair to join the growing clusterfuck surrounding Frieze New York, carries a relaxed and eclectic ethos, one befitting the challenging layout of its Lower East Side venue. According to organizers, 48 galleries, 70% of them international, showed at the Clemente Soto Vé
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At roughly 11 am today, a group of 30 students occupied the offices of embattled Cooper Union President Jamshed Bharucha. Bharucha himself is not present, however, and unlike the previous occupation, the students have not barricaded themselves in and are being allowed to freely enter and exit the bu
Art
ATLANTIC CITY, NJ — At a windswept press conference Monday morning, two Atlantic City consortiums announced a new waterfront sculpture walk, an initiative to be curated by the Noyes Museum of Art at Richard Stockton College. The sculpture walk, in the city’s Marina District, follows the larger Artla
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Occupy Museums thinks the art fair model needs to be reworked. Occupy Wall Street’s art offshoot has announced a new initiative, DebtFair, which seeks to radically deconstruct the commercial art fair. After essentially sunning themselves in a distant corner of Frieze New York last May, distributing
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In a memorable appearance at St. Mark's Bookshop in the fall of 2011, Slavoj Zizek held forth on the importance of saving the bookstore from its then-impending eviction from a Cooper Union-owned building, referring repeatedly to the predatory landlord as "the Union Cooper." The mangy Slovenian's mal
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In my screed from a few weeks ago, "When Artspeak Masks Oppression," I cited the Guggenheim-Emirates partnership as an instance of contemporary art's institutional culture operating in service of authoritarianism. One of the examples I mentioned of the propagandistic character of this primarily ling
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Channeling the conspiratorially unhinged salesmanship of a Cash 4 Gold pitchman, the New York Times ran a hilariously bad art market trend piece today — a story titled "As Money Props Up Art World, Prospects Are Mixed," which portends to link macroeconomic trends with demand for art market investmen