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Back to Brooklyn, but Where Is Home?

Last weekend, for the first time in three months …

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International Center of Photography Museum Will Close in Midtown [UPDATED]

The Midtown Manhattan museum of the International Center of Photography (ICP) will close in January 2015, Artnet News has reported. That's when the organization's lease, with landlord the Durst Organization, expires, and a new one has not been negotiated.

Opinion

Dear Elmgreen and Dragset: How About a Sense of Humor?

“Personal vanity” — really? That’s the argument you want to make?

Art

Bill Viola's Moving Void

PARIS — Free-floating habits are often hard to abandon. The term “video” as a definable medium — and thus “video art” — is now essentially archaic, due to the convergence of all capture technologies into post-media computer manipulated moving image/sound files.

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Art Market Moved $66 Billion Last Year, Nearing Pre-Recession Levels

International art and antique market sales totaled €47.4 billion ($66 billion) last year, their highest sum since the pre-recession days of 2007, according to the European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF)'s annual art market report, released yesterday.

Books

Pretty in Ink: Women Cartoonists in the History of Comics

Women have been involved in cartoons and comics from their beginning, although much of their work has languished in the greater story of graphic narratives. And it's not for the reasons you might think.

Books

Looking at Miami as an Architectural Powerhouse

The ninth issue of CLOG, the architecture publication that emphatically “slows things down,” focuses on the increasingly growing interest in the city of Miami and the transition from a major shipping port and vacation destination to an architectural powerhouse.

Art

Creating a National Art in El Salvador

SAN SALVADOR, El Salvador — What is Salvadoran about El Salvador is not immediately apparent in San Benito, a leafy neighborhood in the country’s capital San Salvador, where the national art museum, El Museo de Arte de El Salvador (MARTE), resides.

Art

From Outside to Inside on Chicago's North Side

CHICAGO — Outsider art is an overused, perhaps even misused, term. By a strict definition it refers to someone who makes art outside the official and even unofficial milieu in which artists get training, education, and exhibitions.

Art

Old and New Takes on the Female Nude

PORTLAND — Way back in 1989, the Guerrilla Girls called attention to the fact that less than 5% of the artists in Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern Art sections were female, but 85% of the nude works on display featured women. Twenty-five years later, it should be common practice not to create sho

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Elmgreen and Dragset Weigh in on Marfa Madness, Alleged Vandal Responds

Elmgreen and Dragset, the duo behind the recently defaced conceptual storefront "Prada Marfa," have condemned the vandalism in a statement to the Art Newspaper published earlier today. "It is crazy that we have come to a point in our culture where some individuals in their insane egomania, eager to

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A View from the Easel

Studios in Brooklyn, Chicago, Harvard, IL, Olympia, WA, and Sabbathday Lake, ME.