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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
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Weekend Banksy: East Village Confessional, Central Park Pop-up, Queens Lowbrow, Red Hook Damage
This weekend's Banksys touched down in three boroughs. They included some of his trademark black-and-white stencils and a surprise pop-up shop by Central Park, while the story of the Red Hook work continues.
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Free Cooper Remixes Banksy Confessional
For the latest in their inventive visual mockery of Cooper Union president and unalloyed economic realist Jamshed Bharucha, the student activists of Free Cooper Union satirically reconfigured a Banksy work that popped up near the school's campus over the weekend.
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Divining the Future of the Past
CHICAGO — Donna Huanca is from the South Side of Chicago, and she hasn't been back here since she was 15, an adolescent girl.
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Lowering the Barrier to Academic Databases
Doing research has always been a difficult endeavor for independent curators and arts historians. Outside the aegis of an academic institution, access to scholarly articles has traditionally been prohibitively expensive.
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