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Calling the New York Underground Your Playground

Many of us probably remember our formative years sitting in class, taking the SATs and trying to lose our virginity. Few of us probably spent that time hanging out with Debbie Harry, playing Max’s Kansas City, or finding success in an underground band.

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A Site-Specific Garden by Mark Dion Faces Relocation

While temporarily saved from destruction, the fate of a site-specific work by Mark Dion in Lancaster, England, is in limbo. "The Tasting Garden," which was created in 1998 in the Storey Gardens and has had a rough few years of theft and decay, may now be relocated entirely.

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In Heaven There Is No Les Blank: The Rooted Works of a Great American Documentarian

Following the short stack of "Yum, Yum, Yum! 3 Movies by Les Blank," which played at its Cinema Fest this past June, BAMcinématek is now serving up a 17-movie Blank banquet.

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Can Virtually Destroying the Environment Make You Care About It?

At Stanford University's Virtual Human Interaction Lab (VHIL), virtual reality is being researched as a means to make everything from climate change to deforestation a personal, impactful experience.

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Protesters Call for Cancelation of Performance Dramatizing Colonial Racism [UPDATED]

A theatrical performance art piece scheduled to run at the Barbican in London later this month has become the subject of a protest, with 14,881 people (as of this writing) signing an online petition calling on the performing arts center to cancel the show.

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Not at the New York Galleries

For your reading pleasure: six short reviews of nonexistent shows, none of which are actually on view in New York this week.

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V&A's First Games Designer in Residence Takes On 19th-Century Textiles

Curiosity was piqued across the games and museum communities last May when the Victoria & Albert Museum announced their first games designer in residence. Now games designer Sophia George has unveiled her first project in the residency.

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Before Selfies, There Were Self-Timers

People were photographing themselves long before the advent of iPhones. A collection of proto-selfies from the mid to late 20th century come together at the Austrian Cultural Forum for the summer exhibition Self-Timer Stories, curated by Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein.

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Finding Contemporary Threads in the End of Dada

PARIS — In our stimulating era of online publishing, it is all the more exciting to look back at paper precedents. And Man Ray, Picabia et la revue Littérature (1922-1924) at the Centre Pompidou provides just such an opportunity by focusing on the period between the end of the Dadaist movement and t

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A New Media Artist Looks to Iranian Spam

Completed in June, "Like Pearls" in as an animated and interactive web-based collage inspired by Farsi spam from Morehshin Allahyari’s inbox.

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A Musical Urban Intervention Turns Brooklyn into Trumpet City

North Brooklyn will soon be buzzing with the sound of a procession of trumpets, as an experiment in breaking up city noise with music takes over a stretch of Williamsburg and Greenpoint.

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Making Art from Politics in Bangladesh

Aicon Gallery in downtown Manhattan currently has an excellent exhibition up, Readymade: Contemporary Art from Bangladesh. It's the obscure object of my art desire: a summer show offering a take on materials and craft that ranges from the familiar to the utopian-exotic.