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Art Rx
This week, three outdoor summer movie screening series kick off in Brooklyn, plus hip-hop in galleries, talks in museums, and performance, performance, performance.
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Performing at the Center of an Artistic Oil Spill: La Pocha Nostra's Corpo Insurrecto #NSFW
Friday night's performance at Bushwick's Grace Exhibition Space was an acid bath of images that oscillated between the trippy baroque and provocatively unnerving.
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A Micro-Apartment of One's Own
Do you know anyone who lives in New York with three roommates? How about someone who lives in a tiny studio apartment? If so, you may be consorting with a lawbreaker. That’s right: in most of New York City, the maximum number of roommates who can share an apartment, legally, is three. And every apar
Opinion
Mos Def Joins Artistic Resistance to Gitmo Prison Camp
"There are currently 120 detainees on hunger strike in Guantanamo Bay" fades onto the white backdrop in the opening of Yasiin Bey/Mos Def's widely-circulated video published today on the Guardian. The video, directed by Asif Kapadia, shows Yasiin Bey (described as "better known as Mos Def") as he vo
Opinion
Here Are Some Arts Executives Who Made Over $1M in 2011
Earlier this year, speculation swirled around whether the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art would be forced to merge with another institution to survive — the latest episode in an ongoing drama, five years and counting, borne out of the museum's financially precarious situation. But it turns ou
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Mirrors Multiply the Selfie: The Doppelgänger Dilemma
CHICAGO — The selfie is a mirror, an illusion of a mirror, an egotistical moment wrapped in time, and an embarrassing moment post-shave. But there is something curious about seeing your doppelgänger reflected back at you rather than running into him or her on the street.
Books
It’s the Political Economy, Stupid: The Global Financial Crisis in Art and Theory
It's the Political Economy, Stupid is alternately a depressing, frustrating, and inspiring call to action for the left in the face of the diminishing economic and social returns of global capitalism.
Comics
The Creative Process Is Like …
It's basic.
Art
More Vibrant Tales of Obsolete Pigments
After our first installment of obsolete pigments, we had such a strong response that we realized we'd only hit the tip of the curious history of vanished colors.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, New York's arts funding future, 1980s abstraction, racism in the new Lone Ranger movie, Google's RSS deathwish, Lou Reed reviews Kanye West, Rineke Dijkstra photographs the Dutch Royals, and more.
Art
Too Big for His Pond: The Irish Abstract Painter John Cronin
DUBLIN — John Cronin, an abstract painter in his late 40s, who has been exhibiting his work regularly in Ireland since the late 1980s, was – for this viewer - a wonderful revelation. Little known in America, it was clear from the moment that I walked into the high-ceilinged gallery space that Cronin
Opinion
Weekend Words: Doubt
Given the checkered history of recent Michelangelo discoveries, Weekend Words proposes a round of the children's card game "I Doubt It."