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In the opening of his review of Matthew Barney’s River of Fundament for GalleristNY, Michael H. Miller writes that “it feels perverse to attempt to review, or even summarize” the six-hour-long film (including two intermissions), which premiered on Wednesday night at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. I’
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It's Valentine's Day today, and while those in love (couples, the polyamorous, people and their pets … ) seek solace in each other's company as they celebrate their cultural superiority over single people (OK, it's only implied), the good people at Do Something Good (DSG) have created an intimate (w
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POUGHKEEPSIE, New York — Malian photographer Malick Sidibé’s career-run of work, Malick Sidibé: Chemises, now on view at the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, is an intimate and inviting affair.
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I'm a sucker for a feel-good story of an artist who finds his or her work in an unexpected place, so I was delighted when New York–based artist Judith Braun emailed her friends and colleagues earlier today to say she had spotted something she designed in the hands of Sochi Olympic bronze medalist Ke
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Because there's a snowstorm bearing down on us in New York, and because last night I sat through Matthew Barney's new six-hour film, which deals heavily in bodily secretions, today seems like a good day to alert readers to the existence of something wondrous and wonderful: an illustrated scroll from
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Kendell Geers's "Stripped Bare" (2009), a very contemporary take on a classic of modern art, was shot across the internet as the publicity image for his upcoming lecture at Philadelphia's Institute for Contemporary Art. It's a reference to Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece "The Bride Stripped Bare by Her
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LOS ANGELES — Kevin Cooley and Philip Andrew Lewis's exhibition Unexplored Territory at Kopeikin Gallery made me wish the artists had taken a hint from Joseph Kosuth and the spirit of 1960s Conceptual art rather than just creating photographs and videos of the age-old man vs. nature battle.
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For audiences, the frantic exchanges between cockpit personnel start off tense and quickly turn horrifying. Some are seeing the experimental work for the first time as a movie. Others are returning after first catching Charlie Victor Romeo some 15 years ago as an acclaimed stage production at Collec
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The Morgan Library and Museum has received much favorable attention in recent years for its drawings-focused and literary exhibitions. But in March 2012, the institution named Joel Smith its first ever curator of photography, and now, nearly two years later, it will open its first exhibition organiz
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The pervasive, even immersive, nature of sound is the subject of an unassuming exhibition by Tim Bruniges, whose megalithic installation, MIRRORS, is on view at Brooklyn's Signal gallery.