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3rd Ward CEO Confirms Closure in Letter to Instructors
The following letter from Jason Goodman confirming that his beleaguered organization is shutting down was emailed to 3rd Ward instructors at 9:39 pm EDT.
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3rd Ward Suspends Operations, $1.5M Investor Offering Shut Down
With news of 3rd Ward's unexpected closure reported earlier this afternoon in the New York Observer, further details have emerged regarding the operational and strategic difficulties that have plagued the widely-utilized creative depot cum instruction space for the past year.
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Art and Tech Nonprofit Eyebeam Is Moving to Brooklyn
Anyone who's ever visited Eyebeam at its current home on West 21st Street knows that it's something of the red-headed stepchild on the block. So maybe it's just as well that the art and technology center is moving to Brooklyn.
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Banksy Watch: New Work in LES, Red Hook Work Protected
Another day, another Banksy in New York City, and today's Easter egg popped up on Ludlow Street on Manhattan's Lower East Side, while the Banksy in Red Hook has been protected from vandals.
Art
Will an Auction Help Convince People There's a Market for New Media Art?
A digital art auction is seeking to bring the art and tech communities closer together, and it may help forge a market for digital art in the process.
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In Their Own Words: Forest Houses Residents Consider the Gramsci Monument
With the help of local residents, Thomas Hirschhorn built a public artwork called the Gramsci Monument in the Forest Houses in the Bronx this past summer. Hyperallergic contributor Arianne Wack visited just before it came down to talk to residents about their experiences with the project.
Opinion
The Perils of Public Sculpture in Qatar
Statues: like many things that exist in the world, people sometimes have idiotic opinions about them. Mute and immobile, they are the helpless victims of sad little moralists of all stripes, from Kansas to Qatar.
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Finding Inspiration in Anything
When the world gives you lemons …
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Five Issues Threatening the Destruction of Cultural Heritage Sites
Yesterday, the World Monuments Fund announced their 2014 World Monuments Watch, launching a two-year advocacy for 67 sites in 41 countries.
Opinion
Want to Be an Artist? Try a Little Narcissism
A new study has found that narcissistic people are more likely to consider themselves creative and do creative things than their non-narcissistic counterparts. Um ... we needed a study to tell us that?
Art
A Performance Artist's Grotesque Femininity
My memory finally caught up with the ephemera of a familiar artist when I went to go see Katya Grokhovsky’s show Bodybeautiful at Galerie Protégé.
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Nevermore? Poe Museum Turns to Kickstarter to Preserve Raven Illustrations
Many artists have been drawn to the macabre, dolorous work of Edgar Allen Poe — Paul Gauguin, Henri Matisse, Édouard Manet, Gustave Doré.