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LONDON — Karaoke sessions, which might usually take place in a black box, are now underway in a white cube. Mic, amp, and monitor are all visible through the glass frontage of tech-loving gallery Carroll/Fletcher. It doesn't take long to work out that all lyrics are culled from those emails we brows
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CHICAGO — There is a set of culturally acceptable ways for mothers to be and behave in the world. Mothers aren't allowed to have their own lives or be sexual; in essence, they're not allowed to be human beings. When an artist who's also a mother crosses these lines, people often react in ways that a
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Brooklyn's beloved Bruce High Quality Foundation (BHQF) is having a retrospective at the Brooklyn Museum. This is an insider show from a group that tries very hard to appear like outsiders while being completely fluent in artspeak, which is increasingly being known as International Art English.
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Join the Times Square Alliance and the Clocktower Gallery next Wednesday, July 10 at 9:30pm for Sky Lines: an evening of music with Jana Hunter and Peals. The performance, which will take place on the breezy rooftop of the Playwright Celtic Pub (732 Eighth Avenue at 46th Street), is the final event
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Last year, the New York Public Library turned old stereoscopic photographs into internet-friendly GIFs with an addictive online tool called the Stereograminator. Now a Toronto-based photography studio and graphic design shop has done the same with a series of found images of World War I, resulting i
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First conceived and constructed in China, Xu Bing’s paired "Phoenix" sculptures have flown the coop and are currently nesting at MASS MoCA in Western Massachusetts.
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The addition of video games to MoMA's collection has not been a decision unaccompanied by controversy. Last November, when the acquisitions were first announced, the Guardian’s Jonathan Jones roundly critiqued the announcement in a short but scathing post titled “Sorry MoMA, video games are not art.
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Artist studios in California, Idaho, Illinois, Rhode Island, and Tennessee.
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It's been just over a century since Roald Amundsen and his party became the first people to stand at the South Pole, and while they shivered and suffered from frostbite in tents and sleeping bags, the current explorers of Antarctica are dwelling in architecture that confronts the extremes of the sou
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While most Americans celebrate Independence Day with backyard barbecues and booze, in Brooklyn we'll be celebrating with the launch of the Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF), which, as you may expect, isn't your typical art festival.
Opinion
The Toledo Museum of Art is unhappy with its representation in a Times piece about the increasing failure of American museums to restitute Nazi-looted art.
Interview
CHICAGO — Born from the girl brains of Chicago artists Eileen Mueller and Jamie Steele of the curatorial project GURLDONTBEDUMB (GDBD), the exhibition Weird Dude Energy (WDE) takes its inspiration from the blog of the same name, which was started in 2008 by Christine Boepple and Kerry McLaughlin.