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Adrian Piper Binds Us with Impossible Trust
The Probable Trust Registry, a new work by Adrian Piper, is not an exhibit so much as an agreement.
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Art Basel Hong Kong on the Verge (Part 2)
HONG KONG — More than US$1 billion of art was for sale at Art Basel Hong Kong, according to insurer AXA ART. But the fair managed to look beyond sales, and also displayed a number of serious counterweights to the frenzied acquisitive impulse.
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Still Gaga for Dada, 100 Years Later
Dada: It was the mother of all revolutionary art movements, shocking in the almost mystical nihilism and concomitant absurdity that it expounded. Anti-aesthetic, anti-rational, anti-idealistic, anti-establishment, anti-literary … anti-everything it seemed!
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Dancing with Drones
Eleven Play is a Japanese dance group that incorporates advanced technologies directly into their practice.
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Securing a Place in History for a Forgotten Female Painter
PHILADELPHIA — Located in the Woodmere Art Museum in Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Quita Brodhead: Bold Strokes shines a welcome light on a painter who displayed a level of ingenuity and skill in a range of styles, one who strangely has little name recognition in the United States today.
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Win a VIP Ticket to Wagmag's 2014 Brooklyn Art Benefit
Any Brooklyn art lover is probably familiar with Wagmag, the helpful guide to the borough's art spaces, and now it's time to show them your support during their annual benefit this Tuesday, May 27, 2014 from 7–9pm at Kunsthalle Galapagos (16 Main Street, Dumbo, Brooklyn)
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Artists Protest Carl Andre Retrospective with Blood Outside of Dia:Chelsea
Of the many things one might expect to see in the industrial chic gallery neighborhood of Chelsea on a Monday evening, chicken blood and guts splayed on the sidewalk is not one of them.
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Emirates Censors International New York Times Over Saadiyat Labor Report
The International New York Times publishing partner in the United Arab Emirates has declined to print the May 20 edition of the paper over a front-page story on labor abuses on the country's Saadiyat Island in Abu Dhabi.
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Art Basel Hong Kong on the Verge (Part 1)
HONG KONG — Art Basel Hong Kong, formerly ART HK and brought into the fold of the Art Basel franchise last year by director Magnus Renfrew, is primarily about place, though it thinks it's about selling art.
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A Guide to Surviving the 2014 Summer Blockbuster Tsunami
Before tut-tutting Hollywood for another summer of what A.O. Scott and Manohla Dargis have called “sequel season, when the movie studios celebrate their lack of imagination by disguising it as populism” — a moment of reflection for one of cinematic-summer's greatest visionaries, H. R. Giger, who pas
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Art Rx
This week, you can discover the family history of a Goya masterpiece at the Metropolitan Museum, listen to the creator of the House of Cards TV series talk about politics, or snag a wonderful work of art at WagMag's benefit. And remember that this week is your last chance to see the wonderful Maria
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The Other LAPD: The Los Angeles Poverty Department on Skid Row
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Poverty Department uses the acronym LAPD, which is deliberately named to evoke associations between police, the criminal justice system, and how people living in poverty are treated.