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Metropolitan Opera Defaced by Spray-Paint Vandals
The offices of the Metropolitan Opera in Lincoln Center were spray-painted with obscene messages by vandals overnight, the New York Times reported.
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The Artistic Madness of the American South
The insane, or seemingly insane, have constituted a good chunk of “outsider art” since the term’s inception, so it’s no surprise that When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South, now in the last week of its run at the Studio Museum in Harlem, includes a few of them.
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ArtRx LA
In our second week of ArtRx LA we're already looking to the past.
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Shredding Currency in the Name of Art
In 1991, Alberto Echegaray Guevara was an advisor to the Argentinian economic minister who pegged the country's currency at a 1:1 rate with the US dollar. Now it seems Echegaray has come full circle. His artistic debut at the arteBA fair last month took on inflation as its subject.
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In a Brooklyn Gallery, Yale Meets Instagram
The 36 photographs currently on view at Sushi Bar Gallery are the works of 19 alumni of the Yale Photography MFA program. With the prints framed and hung neatly on the gallery's white walls, the show seems like any other standard group exhibition — except for this one, the curators pulled the images
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Material Boy: Jeff Koons at the Whitney
Given that he's a goliath figure in the art world whose output spans three decades, it may come as a surprise that Jeff Koons's Whitney retrospective is the artist’s first major solo show at a New York museum.
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Ken Price's Luminous Bulges
What these forms do first and foremost is force us to look. They encourage us to question what the eye is given to believe at first glance, and to carefully consider every surface from a variety of angles.
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Trying to Save a Doomed Architectural Babel
Perhaps modeling what would be the architectural icon of your country's capital off the infamous Tower of Babel isn't the best idea. But it wasn't superstition that brought down the gargantuan spiral of El Helicoide — or the Helix — in Caracas, Venezuela. It was economics, politics, and the continui
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The United States Has More than 35,000 Museums
You might've suspected that there are a lot of museums in the United States, but would you have guessed that there are over 35,000?
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Art at First Sound
Riding the elevator at the New Museum has become an alluring audio experience. Nearly every floor calls out with some unseen signature of sound, whether it's the notes of a boozy, guitar-strumming party or white noise.
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MoMA's Postconceptual Curators
Ever since 2009, when the Museum of Modern Art expanded its Department of Media to include performance art (it is now the Department of Media and Performance Art), it has been both praised and criticized for its focus on acquiring transdisciplinary and postconceptual work that is often ephemeral, li
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Frank Lloyd Wright House Among America's Most Endangered Places
Yesterday the National Trust for Historic Preservation announced its list of America's 11 Most Endangered Historic Places for the year, an annual call for awareness that it's rallied for 27 years.