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Who Do You Think Should Win the 2013 Turner Prize?
We round up the Turner Prize shortlist (Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, Tino Sehgal, Laure Prouvost, and David Shrigley) and turn it over to you. Who do you think should win?
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UncommonGoods Welcomes Art Contest Submissions Year-Round
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Painting Matters Now
Three months ago I attended a discussion at Hunter College called towards meaning in a plural painting world. The panel sought to examine today’s multiplicity of painting styles and determine if this is a positive or dilutive development for painting's meaning as a whole. Last Wednesday, the Pratt I
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What Are We Still Mapping For?
When I was a kid, my father kept a dog-eared street map of the Dallas metroplex in his truck’s glove compartment. As a contractor who spent hours driving each day, this atlas was his North Star — a point of reference for navigating the city’s chaotic, concrete sprawl. Today, the cartographic traditi
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Experimental iPhone App Lets You Paint Light With Noise
It's no secret New York City is noisy, from subway platforms where readings have been recorded over 100 decibels to the construction zones constantly tearing down and redeveloping all over the five boroughs. Yet when I was walking around and experimenting with artist Dylan Römer's new iOS app Sonogr
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Everything Old Is New Again: Native Americans and the New York School
"The Old Becomes The New," at Wilmer Jennings Gallery, tackles a particularly overlooked aspect of Native American artistic development - the fertile exchange that took place between the New York abstract expressionists and Native artists.
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Libraries Aren't Irrelevant Yet
As more and more people get their information and do their research online, often from the comfort of their own couches, the future of public libraries seems very much up for the debate these days. Should libraries ship some of their books off to storage facilities and bring in more computers, as th
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Greetings from the Land of Abramović
Artist Marina Abramović has been pretty quiet since her 2010 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, The Artist Is Present. But she's back! She's here! And she wants you to know where she's been.
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Gay Pride and Self-Representation Under the Lavender Scare
Before pride parades, Stonewall, the It Gets Better Project, and "Born This Way," a circle of friends, lovers and artists unabashedly embodied and represented their own homosexuality. This group coalesced around Paul Thek, expressing their identity during a deeply conservative era, as seen in the im
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Whimsy and Terror at the New York Academy of Art's MFA Open Studios
Wandering through five jam-packed floors of art student studios at the New York Academy of Art MFA Open Studios last Friday, I realized that despite the Academy's emphasis on traditional figural art, many artists transcended this stricture through the use of multiple medias to depict nature-inflecte
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A Futuristic Ghost Story with Many Layers
To tackle the anxiety of online identity and the constant torrential rain of information, artist Toni Dove has orchestrated a ghost story. It's a spectral experience that spills from video screens that raise from the floor and hover from the ceiling, blending in live soundtracking, robotics, motion-
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First Photography Museum Joins Google Art Project
By now, we're used to museums partnering with the Google Art Project and sharing selections of their popular or less known collections online. However, this month a photography museum finally got into the mix, with the George Eastman House, the oldest photography museum in the world, offering an ini