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This week, Banksy speaks, a Russian artist fools London dealers, art historians are scared to give opinions, street artists in Palestine, the Met's "primitive" heritage, a forgotten Lynda Benglis sculpture, and more.
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Weekend Words: Five
On October 5th, the Carnegie International — the biennial that's not a biennial but arrives every three to five years — opened in Pittsburgh after waiting the limit, five years after its last version in 2008.
Books
Geography Lesson: Lytle Shaw’s Fieldworks: From Place to Site in Postwar Poetics
Lytle Shaw’s Fieldworks is a big and ambitious study that is a welcome addition to the dense, unruly, and relatively unmapped field called “postwar poetics.”
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Weekend Studio Visit: Rick Beerhorst in Grand Rapids, Michigan
GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — I first met Rick Beerhorst in 1986, when he was a graduate student in the MFA program at the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana. One of his teachers was Peter Bodnar, whose small, quirky, symbolic abstractions with a spiritual undercurrent — they share something with J
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Why I’m Not Reading Louise Glück
Do you pick a destination in order to have a reason to take a walk, or do you take a walk in order to get to a place you have in mind? Sometimes one, sometimes the other. Are the words a poet uses essentially a means to convey a thought or feeling he or she has in mind, or is the poem’s subject chos
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Rainbows to No Place: Société Réaliste and the Ayn Rand Apocalypse
The 1949 King Vidor film adaptation of Ayn Rand’s The Fountainhead centers on a headstrong New York architect named Howard Roark, who, at grave risk to his architectural practice, spends his days proffering sleek modernist designs to a society mired in its taste for tawdry neoclassicism. When, early
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Leaving Home: René Magritte in Brussels and Paris
In his dismissal of Magritte: The Mystery of the Ordinary, 1926–1938 — the recently opened retrospective of René Magritte (1898-1967) at the Museum of Modern Art — the New York Times’ Holland Cotter cites the ubiquity of the Belgian surrealist’s images and the relative paucity of insight to be glean
News
What's Happening at 3rd Ward Philadelphia?
Though 3rd Ward had been a pillar of the Brooklyn creative community for seven years, the Philadelphia branch — also shuttered this week — had only opened in April 2013, and the devastation to the burgeoning community of members and employees has been just as bad.
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Auction Trolls
Yesterday's first digital art auction at Phillips may have just taken the crown for being the most memorable contemporary art auction for me since Damien Hirst's auction at Sothebys in London the day Lehman collapsed in 2008. I was there. It was wild. So was yesterday.
Performance
A Digital Artist Goes Analogue, but the Message Is Fuzzy
Sitting in the audience for the performance of Ann Hirsch’s "Playground" at the New Museum last week, two things came to mind: one, that Hirsch had managed to trick a bunch of art school kids and fans of her often web-based art into coming to a very conventional theater production; and two, that the
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Zombies and Pop Stars
Josh Kline’s work takes the viewer into the uncanny valley. The two centerpieces of his exhibition QUALITY OF LIFE at 47 Canal show actors playing Kurt Cobain and Whitney Houston, interviewed as if they were alive today.
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Yup, That Was a Banksy [UPDATE 4]
Remember that find by Walking and Typing yesterday? Well, it turns out that was today's Banksy and it's parked in the Meatpacking District.