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Where Can Google Street View Take You?
SAN FRANCISCO — Google Street View, as anyone who's had to visit a new place has acknowledged, is eminently useful.
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Museum of Sex's New Cocktail Tastes Like Kissing a Man Who Has Just Shaved and Smoked a Cigarette
The Museum of Sex has opened its own cocktail bar with rotating artist-designed drinks, and one of the first is called Lickable Skin. It's meant to taste like kissing an older man who has just shaved and smoked a cigarette.
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Taking Stock of the Shutdown's Continued Impact on the Arts
The government shutdown has entered its third week, with little signs of an imminent resuscitation. When that happens, a full accounting of the impact will be done. But in the meantime, the shutdown lingers, and its effects continue to be felt.
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Archaeologist Finds Prehistoric European Art World Dominated by Women
Was the majority of prehistoric cave art in southwestern Europe done by women? That's the theory put forth in a study conducted by archeologist Dean Snow, and it's a welcome challenge to the long-held assumption that our ancient artist predecessors were mostly men.
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Alfonso Ossorio: A Shot of Painterly Heroin
When I first became of aware of the work of Alfonso Ossorio, it was through his off-the-wall (no pun intended) assemblages from the 1960s. Though they're extremely approachable, these works can also make one feel uneasy; they vibrate with the sort of psychedelic energy that marks that decade.
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Banksy's Clichéd 9/11 Tribute [UPDATE 4]
Really, Banksy? Today's street art work, reportedly in Manhattan's Tribeca neighborhood, depicts the Twin Towers but in place of an explosion the artist has placed a what looks like an altered flower.
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Mother of George: The Tyranny of Expectations
Mother of George is a sobriquet of simple expectations. Adenike is to give Ayodele a child, a son, and he is to be named George after Ayo’s father. It's straight-forward, almost comfortably commanding, prophetic in its understated authority. You will have a child.
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The Power of One Human of New York
Brandon Stanton, the founder of the award-winning street photography project Humans of New York, has a story to tell about one of his subjects, an elderly woman whose picture he took at Columbus Circle.
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Art Rx
This week, as always, there is so much good stuff to do, including two niche film festivals, a poet laureate reading Poe, Gowanus Open Studios, a participatory public artwork by Suzanne Lacy, and a lecture by our editor-in-chief, Hrag Vartanian.
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The Honesty of Teens and Their Bedrooms
CHICAGO — An adolescent girl in her bedroom is a curious thing. In her series A Girl and Her Room, Boston-based artist Rania Matar photographs adolescent girls in their bedrooms, capturing them in moments vulnerable and fresh. She manages to do so without a hint of voyeurism, and with a serious dose
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Art Makes the Medicine Go Down
KINGSTON, N.Y. — The O+ Festival in the Hudson Valley town of Kingston, now in its fourth year, trades art and music for health and well-being.
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These Skies Are All Funked Up
Last month's Greenpoint Gallery Night revealed a trend among contemporary artists: they're reveling in ways to make the sky look weird. (Isn't all contemporary art about weird these days?) Seriously, there were no kitschy sunsets or pretty blue skies or brooding storms to be found. No, what feels ri