Art
Rock Hard: LaToya Ruby Frazier’s Photo Excavations
LaToya Ruby Frazier’s elegiac installation at the Brooklyn Museum is entering its final week, and if you haven’t already, it’s time to make the acquaintance of this dauntless artist.
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Remembering "Verve," the Journal That Helped Define Modernism
Few magazines managed to embody the creative aesthetic of their time as Verve magazine did in the first half of the 20th century. And although the Paris-based journal last received some attention in 1988, when Verve: The Ultimate Review of Art and Literature was published, it has mostly faded into o
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"Picasso Baby," One More Time
Jay Z's "performance art film" may be debuting on HBO tonight, but if you weren't cool enough to be invited to missed his live performance at Pace and are craving something a little more real, there's Michael Mahalchick. He's currently performing "Picasso Baby" for six hours straight at Louis B. Jam
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FBI-Seized Forgeries Get a Gallery Retrospective
In what might be the first-ever exhibition of artworks co-curated by an intelligence agency, a show has been mounted at Fordham University's Center Gallery to showcase some of the finer specimens of forged art seized by the FBI's Art Crimes team.
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See the NYC Subway in 1905
A silent, black-and-white video released by the Library of Congress captures a snippet of the first NYC subway line in 1905, trailing a train from 14th Street to Grand Central just a year after the subway opened.
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Artists Protest Federalization of Brazilian Museum
A month and a half ago, Brazil lit up with protests as a million people took to the streets. The country is due to host the World Cup in less than a year (and the Olympics in less than three), but many Brazilians are increasingly unhappy with their government in the face of the impending soccer tour
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Art Movements
This week, NYC's $50M Culture Shed, Pussy Riot denied bail, Smithsonian and Trayvon Martin, JFK airport demolishing Pan Am Worldport, London's Independent cuts Sunday culture critics, and more.
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See the Studios of Artists Past
The Smithsonian Institution has an awesome online archive of old photographs of artists, many in their studios, where sculptors pose midway through work and painters cradle their palettes at their easels. Some have their clothes stained with paint, others obviously spruced up for the portrait occasi
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Crime Wave
ACAB or whatever… Until my white ass gets mugged for my iPhone5 of course.
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New York City's Art Scene in the 1920s
We’ve all heard the tales, dripping in posthumously-applied glamour, of New York City in the 1920s. These stories are usually set in smoky speakeasies with women donning flapper dresses and short bobs, saxophones smoothly slithering along a bar full of bootlegged liquor and men in fedoras and suits.
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For Your Next Roadtrip: A Guide to America's Art Parks
The sculpture park is a relatively recent art destination, really flourishing in the 1960s and 70s when artists explored the use of the American landscape as a medium for public art. Yet now the United States is dotted with these little art oases, from those that sprawl over rural acres to those emb
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Images from the Final Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival
The fourth and final week of Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) included many lectures as performance, the idea of networked performance, and what exactly would a marketplace for performance art mean?