My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé.
October 8, 2013
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Nevermore? Poe Museum Turns to Kickstarter to Preserve Raven Illustrations
Many artists have been drawn to the macabre, dolorous work of Edgar Allen Poe — Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré.
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Uptown Downtown: An Art Auction to Benefit the Abrons Arts Center
Updown Downtown, a curated art auction benefitting the Abrons Arts Center, the Henry Street Settlement’s visual and performing arts program, is now live on Paddle 8.
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Banksy’s Latest Pops Up in Greenpoint, Get$ Covered Up Fa$t
Banksy hasn’t been wow’ing street art fans in New York, though he (I’m going to assume it is a “he”) is creating a lot of excitement around street art, which is a good thing.
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A New York Apocalypse, Hidden in Plain Sight
On the Portal of Paradise on the western façade of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in Manhattan are sculptures of the end of modern New York. The Brooklyn Bridge is breaking in two, a bus plummeting from it into the water while waves rise up over the toppling skyline. People run in a panic below the Stock Exchange, and next to them a scorpion, snake, and other signs of pestilence swarm a skeleton.
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Starting Next Year, LA’s Hammer Museum Will Be Free
A few weeks ago, billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad announced that his upcoming museum in Los Angeles, The Broad, will offer free admission. Earlier this year, the Dallas Museum of Art switched over to free entry, as well as offering a new free membership plan. And now, continuing the trend, the Hammer Museum, also in LA, is going free in 2014.
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The Medium Is the Poem: Micropoetry on Twitter
OAKLAND, Calif. — A few weeks ago, I wrote about Heyku, a new app that takes an Instagram approach to poetry. One of our readers, Luke Agbaimoni, wrote in about his site, micropoetry.com, which features some of the existing practices of poets online.
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Building a Better Bushwick Film Festival
Running over the course of a weekend, the Bushwick Film Festival was New York’s smaller, local, more intimate alternative to more sprawling events like the New York Film Festival.
