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Rijksmuseum Acquires One of the Earliest Landscapes of America
The Rijksmuseum has acquired one of the earliest depictions of America — a painting by Jan Mostaert from circa 1535 titled "Landscape with an Episode from the Conquest of America."
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Unpacking the Instawar Aesthetic
The relationship between the Israeli populace and the country's military is vastly different than the equivalent here in the US. That may sound like an obvious statement, but it's one that kept coming to mind when I read Hyperallergic staff writer Alicia Eler's post last week about the Insta-aesthet
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Crying Webcam Tears
CHICAGO — I cry, you cry, we fuck each others' feelings, we broke up, we got back together, and somehow it all ended up on Tumblr. What is crass and private is public and affective, considered just another aspect of affect, of gaining likes, retweets and reblogs through sharable, likable emotions.
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A Painter’s Retreat: Georgia O’Keeffe and Lake George
Glen Falls, NY — An ambitious exhibition on view this summer at the Hyde Collection is the first of its kind to explore the formative influence of Lake George on the art and life of Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986). O’Keeffe, the great Maiden of American Modernism, is celebrated most for the existential
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The Fear of Leaving an Artwork Unfinished
Just let it go?
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Required Reading
This week, more proof Joseph Beuys lied, more problems for Cooper Union, the world's biggest building in the world unveiled, Gehry's Eisenhower Memorial has more problems, Timbuktu's library assessed, and more.
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Weekend Words: Redemption
The news has been so grim this week that just about the only amusing thing that happened is Eliot Spitzer trying to steal Anthony Weiner's ticket for the Redemption Sweepstakes. Will somebody say "Amen"?
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Waste Not, Want Not: Phillip Allen’s Recent Paintings
DUBLIN — Phillip Allen is an English abstract painter in his mid-forties, whose interest in the material possibilities of his medium — ranging from felt tip pens to oil paint and enamel — informs nearly everything else. He would finish a felt tip pen drawing in one sitting, and then, using the drawi
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Hearing the Rhythm of Mass: Nicolas Carone in Jackson Pollock's House
THE SPRINGS, NY — Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning so dominate the creation story of Abstract Expressionism in New York that these two hard-drinking celebrities continue to busy biographers, often crowding out other artists who had the mixed fortune of painting during their twin ascendancy.
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Spinning a Web: When Art Addresses the Infinite
Every so often the idea behind an exhibition comes across as so pertinent and expansive that it makes you wonder why it hasn’t already become part of the conversation. This appears to be the case with Reticulate, a group show at McKenzie Fine Art on the Lower East Side, which explores the concept of
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Choreographing a Discussion About Labor, Feminism, and Performance
Last night's "No Wave Performance Task Force Debate, Round II: Labor" was a curious performance that was organized and structured by choreographer and performance artist Lindsey Drury who refuses to claim ownership of the piece. "It is not mine. I set up the structure but we all own it," she told Hy
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To Live and Die in Newspaper Art Journalism in LA
In response to the firing this week by the Los Angeles Times of their only art reporter, Jori Finkel, over a dozen museum directors and 1,387 (and counting) petition signatories have confronted LAT editor Davan Maharaj in a two-pronged bid to reinstate the laid-off journalist.