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Worship Below the Waves: A Drowned Church Surfaces
A 400-year-old church drowned in 1966 has reemerged in Mexico.
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A Queer Feminist Haunted House Filled with Riot Ghouls and Polyamorous Vampires
LOS ANGELES — While it's common to address fears about death and the afterlife, other fears remain outside of the standard seasonal fare, namely those surrounding gender and sexuality. These are precisely the fears confronted head-on by KillJoy's Kastle: A Lesbian Feminist Haunted House.
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Wolfgang Tillmans: A Wandering Eye Enamored with the World
Wolfgang Tillmans’s oeuvre has the rare ability to move across genres, mediums, and styles while still remaining indisputably singular. His exhibition of 175 recent works at David Zwirner, entitled PCR, is no exception.
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The Sublimity of the Surveillance State
In 1867 Timothy O’Sullivan headed out West.
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Crimes of the Art
On this week’s art crime blotter: a magician's public sculpture vanishes, a Basquiat is stolen and returned a few hours later in Paris, and hapless thieves in Florida sign the guestbook of a gallery as they rob it.
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Why Canada’s New Prime Minister Might Be Good for the Arts, Eh?
Justin Trudeau is the new prime minister of Canada and he’s a Liberal, but where does he stand on the arts?
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ArtRx LA
This week curate.la celebrates its birthday, Grand Avenue has a block party, Richard Hawkins opens a two-venue exhibition based on Antonin Artaud, and more.
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Attention, Starving Artists: Lower East Side Burger Joint Now Selling $64 "Basquiat Burger"
PYT Burger, a fancy new joint on Bowery in Manhattan known for its "stunt burgers," is hoping Basquiat's name will help sell a $64 burger. It's enough to make a starving artist cry.
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From Giant Steel Angels to Titillating Collages, Favorites from Gowanus Open Studios 2015
As the neighborhood reeled from the news that hundreds of artists are being forced to leave one of its biggest studio complexes, Gowanus became a hotbed of activity this past weekend during Gowanus Open Studios.
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Vermont College of Fine Arts Offers New Scholarships for MFA in Visual Art
Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA) has committed $100,000 in scholarship funding to the MFA in Visual Art incoming class of January 2016. These new funds allow the college to provide each incoming student with a significant scholarship package applied to all four semesters.[http://engine.nectarads.
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How One Artist Found Affordable Studio Space in New York
Among New York artists’ ongoing quest for affordable studio space within the city, one artist relates his story of having discovered a studio in the South Bronx that is first and foremost inexpensive.
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Street Artist Covers Bill Cosby Mural with a Grinning Kim Jong Un
For one afternoon, the grinning face of Bill Cosby on a mural owned by Washington, D.C.'s famed eatery Ben's Chili Bowl was hidden under Kim Jong Un's beaming visage.