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ArtRx NYC
This week, despite the start of summer, we're feeling a little morbid. Good thing there are events and shows about death all over a town.
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An Abandoned Cubicle Complex Filled with Art
NEWARK, NJ — I've been to so many art gallery shows in the New York City area that they start to blur. But the latest show in the Gateway Project, a series of pop-up group exhibitions in downtown Newark, NJ, put a jolt in my step.
Art
Public Art in the Sonic Realm
The open structure of Sound Event resulted in a casual atmosphere, where one could sit in on a performance, or station, without feeling pressured to stay through its entire duration.
Opinion
The Trouble with Favela Chic
A Milwaukee bar called Nomad World Pub wanted to create a special place for its customers to watch the World Cup, so it decided to set up a faux favela inspired by Rio de Janeiro’s poverty-stricken mountainside slums.
In Brief
College Student Thwarted by Vagina (Sculpture)
As you may have seen on the internet today, an American exchange student "just wanted to take a funny picture" and ended up stuck inside artist Fernando de la Jara's "Chacán-Pi" (Making Love) sculpture, located on the grounds of the Institute of Microbiology at Tübingen University in Germany.
Announcement
Visit the Seventh Annual DownStreet Art Festival, North Adams, MA
Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts' (MCLA) and Berkshire Cultural Resource Center (BCRC) will kick off the seventh annual DownStreet Art [http://engine.nectarads.com/r?e=eyJhdiI6NjY3ODYsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjEyMjg1OCwiY2giOjE5MzAsImNyIjozNTYwNTMsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6NDQwNjg4LCJmbCI6MjIzNzQwLCJudyI6MjA3LCJ
Comics
Painting Is Such Sweet Sorrow ...
I'm done.
Art
Frances Stark on Reading Robert Ryman
In one of the final remarks of her talk last Monday for the Dia Art Foundation’s Artists on Artists lectures, Frances Stark hit on the essence of the series: “Being an artist is about falling in love with other artists.”
Art
June Wayne's Farewell
LOS ANGELES — June Wayne’s retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of California Art is a tightly curated, chronologically arranged exhibition of paintings, prints, tapestries, and video by a founder of the feminist art movement.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, blurring lines between fine art and video games, Indonesian performance artist gets YouTube famous, abstraction's sameness problem, cartoonists and censors, smartcameras, Terry Richardson the predator, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Coffee
Last weekend's Weekend Word was tea; this week, equal time for coffee.
Interview
Crafting Community, Caressing Form: An Interview with Lisi Raskin
For more than a decade artist Lisi Raskin has been making works that investigate sites of foreign and domestic conflict, particularly those associated with the Cold War. Her projects have included handmade reimaginings of military structures and paraphernalia, an itinerant exploration of America’s a