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Artists have transformed a vacant townhouse in Spanish Harlem for New York's 2014 Frieze weekend. The temporary exhibition, Hot House, spans three different levels loosely corresponding to the three parts of Dante's Divine Comedy (1308–21): the basement is the Inferno, the middle section of the hous
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One of the season's most anticipated art events will finally open to the public tomorrow. Kara Walker's "A Subtlety," aka the "Marvelous Sugar Baby," is the renowned artist's first public artwork.
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The Paris-based Cutlog art fair has returned to the Lower East Side for another year, with 50 galleries setting up inside the Clemente Soto Vélez Cultural and Educational Center. Opened on Wednesday, the internationally focused art offerings sprawl through two floors of the old schoolhouse, weaving
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Everything looks different from the water — even an art fair. Sitting in Marie Lorenz's rowboat yesterday evening, gliding along the edge of Randall's Island, the curving white tent that houses Frieze New York seemed distant and innocuous.
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The first thing you see when you enter Collective design fair at the Moynihan Station Skylight space is a mini-exhibition of work by Hella Jongerius, organized by Murray Moss and Franklin Getchell of design think tank Moss Bureau. The presentation includes a group of stuffed “Quilted Vases” (2006) b
News
Amazon gets a white-backdrop photography patent, Delaware Art Museum announces first art at auction, Putin bans profanity, and more from the week in art news.
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After serving as a Romanian war photographer from World War I through 1920, Costica Acsinte settled in Slobozia in the south of the country and set up a studio called Foto Splendid Acsinte. There he proceeded to document the surrounding community in over 5,000 images.
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Some dating wisdom has it that the third date is make or break, the one when you decide whether or not to move forward. This is the third year of the Frieze New York art fair, and I'm just not sure I see us having a future together.
Books
Digitization may be increasing the accessibility to the history of literature, but there is something lost about the book as a physical object.
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Alien Sex Club, an installation by John Walter set for the University of Westminster's Ambika P3 opening in July 2015, will seek to promote the idea of a safe, informative physical space to act as a buffer between the smart phone dating app and the physical experience of a sexual encounter.
Books
Back in the 1860s, the capital of the United States was glimpsing two visions of its country: one of brutality, and one of beauty. The latter was captured by Carleton Watkins in his photographs of an untouched wilderness in the West.