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Legendary Lydia Lunch, confrontationalist post-punk no-wave singer, spoken word artist, poet, writer, photographer, and actress, has never been one to hide the madness — that’s putting it mildly. Broadcasting her inner angst has always been her style as well as her gritty charm. A Lunch quote: “I'm
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Richard Serra's "Shift," an early land work made by the artist in 1972, has finally received the indefinite protection it deserves. The township council for King City, Ontario, voted last week to officially designate the sculpture a site of “cultural heritage value.”
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Pussy Riot member Maria Alekhina has ended her hunger strike 11 days after it began, and a Moscow court has rejected the group's appeal, ruling that their jail terms were appropriate and the case was not political.
Opinion
Greenpoint's "HERO BRADLEY MANNING" mural returned to Nassau Avenue after a brief hiatus. Manning's trial begins today.
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Stocked with Havarti cubes and iced kegs, Bushwick artists swept up and opened their doors to the public this weekend for the 2013 Bushwick Open Studios (BOS). Air-conditioned workspaces became premium real estate as the festival’s seventh incarnation, hosted by nonprofit Arts in Bushwick, welcomed
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CHICAGO — Anyone who has ever spent more than three consecutive hours listening to their favorite band on repeat, attempted to dress up as the lead singer, or camped out overnight to get tickets has more than just a passing interest in said band. This person, a bit fanatical in their behaviors and e
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There aren't as many outskirts to Bushwick Open Studios as there once were. The 2013 edition was brimming even at the very edges of designated "Bushwick," which really oozes over into the adjacent East Williamsburg and Ridgewood, though it seems steadfast in not stepping over the Broadway line to Be
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Step on, step off? Which way?
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One type of artwork Bushwick probably does not need more of these days is abstract painting. Another type it may or may not need more of is work in 3-D imaging and modeling (discuss). But two artists who use this medium in very different ways are being presented at gallery spaces near each other in
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There are a lot of studios in Bushwick, and a lot of white boxes and apartment galleries, too. If you need a break from any or all of those, I recommend venturing out to 299 Meserole Street, where recent alumni of Virginia Commonwealth University's Sculpture and Extended Media MFA program have taken
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So much to see, but here's my short list of things you should most definitely check out today, the last day of Bushwick Open Studios.
Opinion
This week, the winners of the Venice Biennale, cat selfies, controversy in Poland, Abramović loves New York, a short history of the Bauhaus, questions for the Warhol Foundation, free PDF downloads of Wolfgang Tillmans books, and more.