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Intimate Distances: Kris Graves’ Cold Comfort
The Icelandic landscapes in Kris Graves’ photographs are not pristine, not all of them. There’s a road here, a guardrail there, the lights of a distant town beneath a neon-green aurora borealis.
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Images from the Second Week of the Brooklyn Int’l Performance Art Festival
The Brooklyn International Performance Art Festival (BIPAF) is picking up speed, and this last week was its busiest yet.
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One of World's Biggest Art Collectors Charged With Insider Trading
In a statement released earlier this afternoon, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged Steven A. Cohen of SAC Capital with supervising, and profiting from, the insider trading of two of his employees. The move followed years of severe scrutiny for the Connecticut-based hedge fund m
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Should We Be Worried? Christie's Called Detroit Museum About Its $2bn Collection
News has emerged that representatives of Christie's auction house called the Detroit Institute of Arts last month, asking for an inventory of artworks and "if appraisers could visit to assess the collection," the New York Times reports.
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A Small Oasis of Abstraction: Ying Li and Eve Aschheim
It's the dog days of summer in New York, and may we suggest some respite from the sizzling heat with an exhibition of two abstract painters, Ying Li and Eve Aschheim, at the New York Studio School.
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Art Movements
Stolen Rotterdam Kunsthal paintings feared incinerated, Hôtel Lambert in Paris definitely has burned, Detroit files for bankruptcy, 5 Pointz edges closer to demolition, a major boost for California arts funding, and more.
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Beyond Two Dimensions: Installing Photography
In addition to supplying critics with fodder for the talent-scout game, MFA shows can also be useful barometers of change, signaling new approaches to a familiar medium. So the fact that four out of six graduates from the Photography MFA program at RISD incorporate a variety of media like sculpture,
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Ridin' the Clit Rodeo One Phallucy at a Time
CHICAGO — You thought that headline was a joke, right? It might be a phallucy, or a fallacy, or it could be just plain phantasmagoric, or phallocentric or ... it could be why you decided to stop for a minute and read this story.
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Making Gestures: Land Art's Moment in the UK
LONDON — Land art is having a moment in the UK. It was building last year with two shows, in Margate and Birmingham, by perambulatory artist Hamish Fulton. More ‘walking art’ is afoot in Sunderland. April found Nancy Holt on show in Manchester. And in maritime city Southampton, we have not one but t
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Museum Galleries So Incredible, It's Hard to Believe They're Gone
There's something about the cluttered aesthetic of the 19th century that is definitely missed even if, sure, context and history could play second chair to spectacle.
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The Most New York Summer 2013 Photo Ever
Today the world changed. The cruelest man in the world, Dominique Ansel, the chef and owner of the bakery of the same name, tweeted a tantalizing photo of the all elusive Cronut™ being held up to the damp light inside of MoMA's Rain Room.
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The Pre-Tabloid Art of 19th-Century Crime
People have always loved a good lurid story, the more complicated by family twists and accented by violence the better. Back in the 19th century, thousands of chapbooks were printed in Spain and England that chronicled grisly crimes and romantic intrigue for the public, and since a large part of the