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Curator Assaulted by "Paramilitary Thugs" in Kiev
A politically engaged Ukrainian curator was attacked and beaten in an incident in Kiev late last month, The Art Newspaper reported.
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ArtRx NYC
This week, solo shows by artists Robert Gober, Egon Schiele, and Gregory Sholette should be on your radar, while curator Michelle Grabner is doing a breakfast chat, the NY Public Library is hosting a talk on museum ethics, and Edgar Allan Poe's dark side is in the spotlight.
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Exploring Greenpoint, Studio by Studio
Greenpoint Open Studios is an annual event offering an intimate look at the diverse and thriving art scene in North Brooklyn. This year, 265 artists opened their doors for two full days in locations spread across the neighborhood.
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The Eiffel Tower Gets a Facelift
“I ought to be jealous,” engineer Gustave Eiffel said, after his 1,070-foot iron lattice tower was erected in late-19th-century Paris. “She is more famous than I am.”
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An Excursion to the Past as You've Never Imagined It
With a mission to show that the past wasn't always as we now envision it to be, Chris Wild's Retronaut has been compiling curiosities of vintage photography and other archives online.
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Artists Mobilize to Capture Hong Kong's Umbrella Movement in Pen and Ink
Art has played a role in the Umbrella Movement since day one, from public art installations like Stand By You: ‘Add Oil’ Machine to a Facebook competition to design the movement’s logo.
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Launch Your Career in the Art World at Sotheby's Institute of Art
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Privacy Backlash Prompts Cancellation of Berlin Art Project
BERLIN — Few social media performance artworks have been as polarizing as "Wanna Play? (Love in the Time of Grindr)" by Dutch artist Dries Verhoeven. After hundreds of public complaints, and numerous articles, host venue Hebbel am Ufer (HAU) has ended the engagement prematurely.
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Funk, Medicine, and Questions of the Future
In performance, as in history, there’s a lot that gets lost: layers of meaning and nuance too complex to carry in a single story. Investigating Simone Leigh's and Xenobia Bailey’s projects for funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, produced by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center,
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Artist's Diaries Since 1865
From Vincent Van Gogh to Joseph Cornell, writing has always been a crucial part of the artist's life.
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Roman Opalka’s Numerical Destiny
In 1965, the French-born, Polish painter Roman Opalka came to an important decision. While sitting at the Café Bristol in Warsaw waiting for his wife to arrive, the idea occurred that he should begin to paint numbers that would progress sequentially from one canvas to the next for the duration of hi
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A Young Artist Seduced by Attention
The attention and flattery felt so good, because the rest of the time I was terrified.