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Sometimes Who Is More Important Than What
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Art
Eight Online Series for Your Art-Hungry Eyes
With summer sweltering and those high air conditioning bills to pay, you're melting quickly and not made of money. Why not watch some free online art programming to ease your eyes? Here are eight web series available from your internet device.
Art
The Art Market Smells Like Money
Last week, Atlantic Media's business publication, Quartz, ran a 2200-word takedown of the art market by Allison Schrager. The story was accompanied by a helpful flowchart illustrating how deeply corrupt the art market is, and carries all the familiar signs of the minimally self-aware bloviation char
Art
Remaking the City with Architectural Collage
From a standpoint of cohesion, the architecture of the 20th century was a mess. Brutalist monoliths were constructed alongside shimmering aluminum waves, while some architects clung to scraps of classicism like life preservers in a swelling sea of modernism. However, it was this mishmash of styles a
Announcement
An Art Capital Shines: Berlin Art Week, Sept 17–22, 2013
From September 17–22, 2013, Berlin will attract the world's attention once again as one of the most vibrant centers of contemporary art in the world with the second edition of Berlin Art Week [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MjgzODUsImF0IjoyMCwiY20iOjM4OTQwLCJjaCI6MTkzMCwiY3IiOjEwNjYwOSwiZG0iOj
Opinion
Now Accepting Materials Toward a Theory of the Adult-Man
We turn our gazes toward men and masculinity, and suddenly everyone feels safe again. Consider The New Inquiry's Further Materials Toward a Theory of the Man-Child, a response to the ongoing conversations around Preliminary Materials for Theory of the Young-Girl, which uses the body of the young-gir
Books
Five Decades of Tough Love and Leather
In Nancy Grossman: Tough Life Diary (Prestel, 2012), performer Elizabeth Streb relays an anecdote about artist Nancy Grossman startling her by wearing a monkey fur jacket. It's one of those images that has an unsettling, visceral nature to it, like striding through life in a skin ripped from another
Art
What Did Jorge Luis Borges See in Xul Solar?
The writer Jorge Luis Borges once referred to his friend the artist Xul Solar as “one of the most singular events of our era.” Those in New York have the opportunity to see an important selection of works by the two friends in an exhibition at the Americas Society. Curated by Gabriela Rangel, the sh
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Art Rx
It's officially insufferably hot in New York. Whether the weather has you thinking about the environment, feeling gloomy, or making you want to crawl out of your skin, the doctor's got activities for you.
News
Cooper Occupation Ends With Agreement, Amnesty for Activists
In a message sent at 4:07 pm to the Cooper Union community, Jamshed Bharucha announced today an agreement with the activist group Free Cooper Union, which had ended its occupation and vacated his office on Friday. The email, which was preceded a few minutes earlier by a campuswide message containing
Opinion
10 Facts You May Not Know About Artemisia Gentileschi
Susan Vreeland’s novel The Passion of Artemisia, a work of historical fiction, inspired this list of facts about one of the greatest painters of the Baroque era.
Art
Our Faces, Our Selfies
CHICAGO — Selfies are part of our voluntary self-exposure in an attempt to take back the images of ourselves, but in the process we also give ourselves away. In the world of online selfies, faces are the focus; bodies tend to appear as afterthoughts. We see a collection of eyes, lips, mouths, noses,