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A View from the Easel

Studios in Boston, Brooklyn, Kansas City, Los Angeles, and Manhattan.

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Thinking About Art Practice and the Role of Compromise

What happens when an artist’s inclinations towards her/his work conflict with her/his ability to sell and keep making it?

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Sculptural Sorcery: Ian Pedigo's Assemblages of the Natural and Manufactured

Assembling pieces of the natural and manufactured worlds, Ian Pedigo constructs sculptural balances of disparate materials. Some of his newest creations are on view in his solo show Cosmopolitan Sleep Positions at Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery on the Lower East Side.

Opinion

What's So Fundamental About Rem Koolhaas's Architecture Biennale

When the 14th la Biennale di Venezia International Architecture Exhibition announced that it had (finally) roped in world-renowned architect Rem Koolhaas as the director of the Architecture Sector to lead its ranks, the speculative — often skeptical — architecture crowd wore its mixed emotions on it

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Studio of Composer Charles Ives Preserved in Manhattan

Object by object, some 3,000 artifacts from the studio of composer Charles Ives have been reconstructed at the American Academy of Arts and Letters in Washington Heights. The replica of the studio he used in the final 40 years of his life even has a light box mimicking the Redding, Connecticut, view

Interview

Printing the Performative Object

Outside of his own performance art practice, which fluidly intersects with his life, Brian Getnick and artist/designer Tanya Rubbak collaboratively publish the LA-based performance art journal Native Strategies.

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Bloodletting, Balance, and Buddhism at the Rubin Museum

What's your mental disposition? In what type of climate do you feel uncomfortable? What does your tongue look like? What do you dream about and what colors are predominant in those dreams?

Announcement

New York Studio School Summer Session 2014 Applications Due May 20

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Opinion

Unpaid Work Alert: Performa Seeks Writers [UPDATED]

Yesterday over email, Performa publicized a call they'd announced a few weeks earlier, seeking writers-in-residence for 2014. The catch? The positions are unpaid.

Art

Water Towers as Monuments to Immigration and Identity

Never had a water tower — its silhouette ubiquitous to New York’s skyline — been examined so carefully. Each was elevated eight feet above the ground on black stilts, and locals and tourists approached them curiously, standing beneath and craning their necks upward to see the contents within.

Art

What Happens When Museums Return Antiquities?

Year after year, the demands come from foreign governments, landing on the directors’ desks at some of the major museums in the United States: give us back our looted antiquities. And, after some delays and in some instances the assistance of the US State Department, these antiquities are being retu

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Art Rx

On the short list for the week is a big show of Cuban-American art in the Bronx, a screening of cinematic classic Requiem for a Dream, and your last chance to see the retrospective of one of the greatest comic artists of our time.