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Sleeping to Dream
Lucid dreaming — in which the dreamer becomes aware she is dreaming and can actively participate in and alter the narrative — has long been a source of fantastical imagery for artists, Salvador Dali being the most famous.
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Art Rx
You might be art'd out but that's why we've include a park, a Gowanus exhibition, an elevator-sized museum, and music at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (among other things) to give you a post-art fair buzz.
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Regina Rex Out Amid Gallery Shakeup at 17-17 Troutman
Regina Rex's closure Sunday was the first public development in a campaign begun six months ago by the building's landlord, David Steinberg, that placed pressure on the half-dozen gallery tenants in his loft building at 17-17 Troutman Street in Queens.
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Greenpoint Gallery Night: A Laid-Back Antidote to Frieze
Were you as exhausted by the frenzy that surrounded New York's Frieze Week as I was? Taking a break from the monied and crushing crowds, I took my antidote on Friday evening via Greenpoint Gallery Night, a low-key, casual affair featuring more than a dozen local galleries in the Brooklyn neighborhoo
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Flying High with Selfies
LOS ANGELES — I was on an airplane flying back from Tulsa when I happened upon the phenomenon of mile-high selfies. Wifi is available up high, so why not take a selfie?
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School of Visual Arts Continuing Education Summer 2014 Information Sessions
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Interview
Alejandro Jodorowsky Discusses His First Film in 23 Years
Once he hung up the phone and we were seated, I quickly understood I could have list of questions but Jodorowsky was going to talk about, well, whatever Jodorowksy wanted to talk about. “How to think about my new picture … ” he began.
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Art Historian Says "Ideological Censorship Is Happening" in Russia
In a candid interview with the Germany’s Deutsche Welle last week, the Russian art historian Ekaterina Degot stated that freedom in Russia’s cultural sector is quickly diminishing.
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Ikea to Open Ikea Museum
The Swedish retail giant is opening a museum dedicated to itself. Because capitalism!
Art
Bridging the Coasts: Bay Area Figurative Painters at Yale
Jock Reynolds, the Henry J. Heinz II Director of the Yale University Art Gallery (YUAG), has held his job for 16 years now but has the energy of a man who is just getting started.
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Artistic Self-reflection
What would your future self tell your present day self?
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Peggy Guggenheim troubles, bell hooks on Beyoncé, Marianne Boesky on art, an unknown genius of Art Deco, lack of diversity at the National Gallery of Art, ruining Thomas Kinkade, and more.