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Shock of the View: Seeing and Scene at the Venice Biennale
VENICE — Nothing quite captured the absurdity that is the vernissage of La Biennale better than Ragnar Kjartansson’s fishing boat, the S. S. Hangover, floating through a barrel-vaulted and colonnaded boat parking structure carrying six horn players performing British composer Gavin Bryars’ "White’s
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Strong Emotions Surround Historic Sugar Factory's Future
The massive Domino Sugar Factory that faces the East River with its iconic yellow sign is expected to soon be dwarfed by towering skyscrapers. However, there are some supporters who are rallying to get public support to turn the old factory into a cultural center.
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A View from the Easel
Artist studios in Illinois, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Wisconsin, and South Africa.
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Reading the Writing on the Wall at #OccupyGezi, Part 1
ISTANBUL — The graffitti that now covers the streets of Istanbul cannot be called ‘art.’ It was put there by people on the run from tear gas and billy clubs. It was done quickly and secretly, at night or in flight. It is a reflection of the social media that inspired it — pithy, angry, quick, and sh
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A New Documentary Casts the Barkeep as Artist
CINCINNATI — Some say bartenders are artists for the way they slowly pour their homemade grenadine into a glass creating layers of alternating colors. Others insist they’re craftsmen and craftswomen; choosing the label of "mixologist" in recognition of their recipe skills.
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The NEA Four Revisited: Karen Finley Talks Sexting
Of the four artists known by history as the NEA Four, Karen Finley is the one whose full name many people remember, even if they know little else about the situation that led to the artists’ lawsuit against the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA).
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Beyond the Creep Factor: Postmortem Photography as Remembrance
With the arrival of accessible photography came a developed culture of portraiture for not just the living, but the dead. Up until the 1830s with the creation of the daguerrotype, creating an image for remembrance of your loved ones was reserved for the rich, who could commission paintings. Yet with
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Ventiko's Otherworldly Symbolism #NSFW
Ventiko just had her first Chelsea solo show at the Coohaus gallery, VENTIKO: The Other World, which ran until May 21st and exhibited eight of the young photographer’s works. Beginning last Saturday, she is being featured in a group show called Toxicity, curated by Aimee Hertog at the Williamsburg A
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Retreat to a Hidden Winter Cabin in Times Square with The Drums, Kimsin Kreft, and a Human-Taxidermy Duo
As the temperatures in New York rise into the summer heights, there is a place in Times Square that's always frozen. The Aspen Social Club on 47th Street with its tree trunks sprouting in the walls, decorative deer antlers, and icy-toned space where a waterfall replicates a Rocky Mountain slope acts
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A New World Order for Photography
The notion of order is really rather muddled: as we put things together to make sense of them, we also surrender some of their meaning. And by its nature, order is perpetually shifting; rules are imposed, then they are broken, reconfigured. This paradox is at the heart of the International Center of
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This Artist Is Toasted
CHICAGO — When isn't art good for breakfast? Oslo-based artist Ida Skivenes makes all types of food art out using a piece of toast on a kitchen plate as her canvas.