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At My First Auction
Auctions in the Catskills are colorful affairs.
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Unpaid interns get NYC harassment rights, Joan Jonas to represent US at Venice Biennale, Gabriel García Márquez dies, search for painting in the Hong Kong landfill called off, and more from the week in art news.
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5 Old-School NYC Video Artists You Should Know (and Follow)
Looking at the work of a few pioneers, specifically those on the scene in New York City, it’s obvious that technology was a catalyst for a new type of electronic art; these artists were trailblazers in both fields.
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Taking Identity to the Guillotine with Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE's decapitated mannequins in their vibrant batik fabric outfits cavort through a collage of influences that the British-born, Nigeria-raised artist has excavated from the complicated history of culture.
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One Artist's Plan to Save the US Postal Service
The United States Postal Service is in crisis: hemorrhaging money, searching for ways to fix the situation and being blocked by Congress, inching towards privatization. What can any of us do about? Not much, except send more mail. That's the idea behind artist Jennie Ottinger's new project, called,
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New York Murals: The City's Best Overlooked Museum
You might walk by some of the permanent works in New York City's best art collection and not even notice them. The murals embedded in the city's public spaces — in bars, restaurants, hospitals, skyscraper lobbies, and schools — together make up a historical tapestry of New York's visual culture.
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How Laurie Simmons Makes Dolls Lie
Laurie Simmons isn't the first photographer to snap pictures of dolls, but she has a way of getting them to look eerily emotive (and making them take selfies). She pulls off the uncanny by aestheticizing several layers of lies.
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Research Reveals Artists' Brains May Be Structured Differently
Artists are often deemed "right-brained" thinkers, but new research suggests it may be the actual structure of the brain that lends creative talent.
Opinion
No Mag Is an Island
In the latest issue of Cluster Mag, a "magazine of international popular culture," writer Jesse Myerson places the asset-stripping drama surrounding Detroit's bankruptcy against a broader historical context, one that dates to the 13th-century failure of Constantinople.
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A View from the Easel
Studios in New York, Chicago, London, Atlanta, and Dunedin, New Zealand.
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Highlights From the PAD/D Archive
A look at the contents of the large PAD/D Archive at MoMA QNS.
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Art in the 1980s: The Forgotten History of PAD/D
July 1979. Margaret Thatcher is the Prime Minister of Great Britain. Iran has entered its fourth month as an Islamic Republic, and the Sandinista National Liberation Front have deposed the U.S. backed Samoza dictatorship in Nicaragua. It was against this political backdrop that Lucy Lippard's exhibi