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ArtRx NYC: Summer Day Trips
This week, we invite you to leave the city and explore the world outside NYC.
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In Brief
Showing Your Kids Art a "Total Waste of Time," Artist Says
Jake Chapman said that bringing kids to view art is a "total waste of time," the Independent reported.
News
Does Less Testosterone Mean More Art?
Human civilization, and the artistic activities associated with it, came about as a result of a measurable decline in testosterone levels that began accelerating around 80,000 years ago, according to a study published in the August issue of Current Anthropology.
Opinion
4Chan Circlejerk Goes to eBay, Anonymous Screenshot 'Sells' for $90K
Whether or not you consider the 4Chan post that recently sold for $90,900 art or not, it has certainly become the latest source of frenzy over the limits of commodification — or was it just a major troll on the click-hungry media?
News
Salvadoran Presidential Palace Turned into Art Museum for "Those Who Have Been Excluded"
Salvadorans can now enjoy art where their former leaders once wined and dined. Opting to live at home during his time in office, newly elected President Salvador Sánchez Cerén has turned the Presidential House in San Salvador's upscale neighborhood of Escalon into an art gallery, featuring works by
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NYC Housing Realities: 53,000 Artists Apply for 89 Affordable Apartments
Last May, developers for subsidized artist housing in East Harlem began accepting tenant applications for the building's 89 units. By the July 14 deadline, over 53,000 artists had responded, DNAinfo reported.
Opinion
New Abu Dhabi Museum Island Report Paints Troubling Picture for Workers
Artist Molly Crabapple has just published an extensive report on the conditions on Abu Dhabi's Saadiyat Island, where franchises of the Louvre of the Guggenheim museums will open in the coming years.
Art
Life-Size Nudes, Slumping but Self-Possessed
HUDSON, N.Y. — Bruce Gagnier’s life-size figure sculptures have been popping up everywhere this past year: at Lori Bookstein Fine Art, the National Academy Museum, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, John Davis Gallery in Hudson, NY. And they've impressed each time.
Comics
Some Artist Dos and Don'ts
Some thoughts on what you probably should and should not do.
Art
Between Figuration and Abstraction with Amy Sillman
ANNANDALE-ON-HUDSON, New York — Walking into the Hessel Art Museum at Bard College, an unremarkable contemporary building on a quiet Hudson Valley college campus in Upstate New York, I was unprepared for the dynamite lurking within.
Art
Why Eternity Is so Precarious
BEIRUT — Shortly after the opening of their most recent exhibition, I Must First Apologize in Nice, Lebanese artists and filmmakers Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige returned home to Beirut to deliver their “An Additional Continent” lecture at Ashkal Alwan, the Lebanese Association for Plastic Ar
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, auction houses stalking new buyers, Frick Museum controversies, objections to Norman Rockwell's new biography, the impact of deskilling on arts education, should musicians play Tel Aviv, and more?