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Here Are the Bland Condos That Will Replace 5Pointz
NY YIMBY recently got a set of renderings of the structure that will take over 5Pointz’s burial ground at 22-44 Jackson Avenue in Long Island City, Queens.
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Brooklyn Museum Goes Free for Those Under 20
Starting September 3, the Brooklyn Museum will be free for visitors under 20.
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Yams Collective to Speak at Hyperallergic ArtTalk on Thurs, Aug 7
On Thursday, August 7, Hyperallergic will be hosting our next ArtTalk featuring the Yams Collective — aka HOWDOYOUSAYYAMINAFRICAN? — at their studio in Dumbo, Brooklyn.
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Marina Abramović Institute Seeks So Much Unpaid Work
Good news: the Marina Abramović Institute is hiring! Bad news: all four positions listed in this fresh New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) ad are unpaid — ahem, volunteer. They're probably great "opportunities," though, right?
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Met Envy Apparently Fueled National Gallery of Art's Interest in Corcoran
The chief of exhibitions at the National Gallery of Art told a philanthropist that absorbing the failing Corcoran would make "his collection at the National Gallery ... greater than the collection at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.”
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Hey Artist, Take a Hike
All the animals are doing it.
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A First Look at the New SITE Santa Fe Biennial
SANTA FE — At this point it's hard to keep track of which type of art event there are more of: art fairs or biennials. There are art fairs that look like biennials, biennials that look like art fairs, triennials, pop-ups, and everything in between. But the trope of the biennial has long been a fixtu
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Street Art Subversion Goes Retro in Paris
PARIS — The City of Light is rightly recognized as an interesting place for street art, especially in the Right Bank's scruffier neighborhoods, where I am used to seeing plenty of it.
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Satanist Gallery Brings Charles Manson to Chinatown
A new gallery calling itself "the official art gallery of Satan" is reopening Friday in Chinatown, lodged between a gift shop and the True Buddha Temple Chinatown.
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If You Build It in Harlem
No Longer Empty's current exhibit, If You Build It, manages to avoid the ickiness of so many other art projects exploited to anoint development projects on the verge of fruition, and in an art economy that's popularized the practice of artwashing that's no small feat.
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Zaha Hadid Qatar World Cup Stadium Laborers Paid a Pittance
A Guardian investigation has found that migrant workers building architect Zaha Hadid's World Cup stadium in Qatar are being paid at a level beneath what's mandated by World Cup regulations.
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Port Authority Claims Rights to New York Skyline
New York housewares store Fishs Eddy has run afoul of the Port Authority's apparent rights to the Manhattan skyline, the New York Times reported.