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Banksy Goes Japonaiserie in Brooklyn, Tribeca Banksy Vandalized [UPDATE 5]
Banksy's latest stencil reimagines an anonymous arch into a Japanese bridge traversed by ladies and adjacent to a bonsai.
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Repatriation Through Portraiture: Giving Narrative to Disability
Many studies of anatomy and the beauty of the human body are all about symmetry and proportions, a sort of endless steamrolling of Leonardo da Vinci's "Vitruvian Man" through art history. Yet that barely explores the incredible diversity of human forms. It's the "variant body" that artist Riva Lehre
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Pissing in the Windy City
CHICAGO — Little boys don't piss in rivers. They pee in picturesque ways and all look like the "Manneken Pis," a small bronze fountain sculpture of a little boy peeing forever into the fountain's basin. On view in Brussels since it was erected by Hiëronynus Duseuesnoy the Elder in 1618-ish, this scu
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How Ancient Cartographers Mapped the World We See Today
No maps remain from the Ancient Greeks and Romans, yet we know that they looked to the stars and to the widening world around them and responded with their own influential cartography.
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William Kentridge Talks Promiscuous Images
CHICAGO — This is how much I admire William Kentridge: doors opened at 5:15 pm on October 3 for his talk at the University of Chicago, but I was standing there much earlier, getting drenched in a fall thunderstorm but determined to be one of the first to enter the auditorium and claim a seat as clos
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Play (LABS): A Public Art Installation in East Harlem Gardens
The West Harlem Art Fund & New York Restoration Project Bring Interactive Public Art Installations to East Harlem Gardens with Play (LABS) [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MzY1NjIsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjUzMTQ3LCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjE0NDUxMiwiZG0iOjQsImZjIjoxOTcyMDEsImZsIjo5NTE3MiwibnciOjIwNywicnYiOjA
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Trompe l'Tweet: The Twitter-Bot World @Horse_ebooks Left Behind
There's an Ancient Greek story that many art lovers know, from the 5th century BCE. Zeuxis and Parrhasius were known as the best painters of the time, so the citizens held a contest to determine who indeed was the best. At that time, the value of painting was in its re-creation of reality. A paintin
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Blessed Are the Makers: The Rise and Fall of 3rd Ward
The sudden collapse last week of art center and studio/co-working space 3rd Ward unceremoniously revealed the incompetence with which the company was managed and its frighteningly anemic cash flows. But the DIY conglomerate's rise since 2006 brings up some altogether more challenging questions about
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Banksy Takes Aim at Fastfood Giant, Tribeca Banksy Becomes Memorial [UPDATE 3]
A new — and yet another traveling — Banksy has been unveiled today. Part sculpture, and part performance piece, the work featured a person shining the shoes of an oversized Ronald McDonald.
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Prehistoric Art Critics
With new research comes new visions of the past …
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One Gallery, Two Very Different Artists
David Zwirner is currently showing solo exhibitions of Raymond Pettibon and Philip-Lorca diCorcia in his West 19th Street galleries. On the surface, Pettibon and diCorcia do not have much in common: the former creates punk noir drawings; the latter makes engaging photographs that dance between fact
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in California, Michigan, New Mexico, and New York.