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Not Punk Enough for the Met
I didn't get invited to The Met Ball this year. Good thing too, at $150,000 per table.
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Snarkitecture, Endless Karaoke, and Other Highlights from Ideas City After Dark
The after-sundown events for this past weekend's Ideas City from the New Museum may have had the least to do with biennial festival's focus on the future of our urban metropolises, but the NightFest definitely had the greatest visual impact.
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The Bubble and the Rat: A Visit to Frieze New York
Visiting Frieze New York on Randall's Island is like being sucked into a black hole. You get on a ferry (or a bus, or a bike), enter a giant, spacious tent, and then time stops. Or it disappears. Or it slips away. Next thing you know, you stumble out dehydrated and drunk off your speakeasy cocktail
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Pulse New York's Playful Cosmopolitanism
Pulse New York is continuing its role as one of the more user-friendly offerings this fair week, with a flair for the international and an undercurrent of the offbeat in its location at Chelsea's Metropolitan Pavilion. Last year was the first of its eight editions to run alongside Frieze, and despit
Opinion
Model/Surrealist/War Photographer Revealed Through Thousands of Images
Some people manage to live many lives in their one existence, and Lee Miller with her journey from Poughkeepsie to the Surrealist scene of Paris to the front lines of World War II was definitely a woman whose life could not be singularly defined.
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So You Say You Want A Gallery
Whenever I do a grad school visit, the question I’m most often asked is “How do I get a gallery?” It’s never “Oh! How are you Mr. Grossmalerman?” or “ Would you like to feel how soft my freshly washed hair is?” No! It’s always “How do I get a gallery?” So, by this anecdotal evidence I’m simply going
Opinion
Remembering Art's Role in Social Change
SAN FRANCISCO — Just as design is often seen as an afterthought for new technologies, art is often seen as superfluous to the more quantifiable work behind social change and the rhetorical and charismatic qualities of change leaders.
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Your Guide to Greenpoint Gallery Night
The first Greenpoint Gallery Night offers a chance to catch your breath during the art fairs. From what we can tell, there will be lots of good stuff on view. Here's a short guide to help you navigate.
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God Save the Met and Their Fuckin' Costume Institute
If there is but one cornerstone of “Punk” as fashion, it is what Dame Vivienne Westwood dubbed “confrontation dressing.” Swastikas, tampons, spray-painted swears, safety pins — these were the tools with which this particular postmodern machine of resistance, youth, and style were forged. The Metropo
Opinion
Art21 Exclusive Video: James Turrell Talks About Working with Light
Walking into a work by James Turrell forces you to scrutinize the environment around you since there is so little to look at except light and color, then you realize how much there is to actually examine. Framing light, Turrell's work can feel effortless but their impact on our perceptions can be pr
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The Awkward Laughing Moment of Charles Ramsey's Hero Tale
CHICAGO — The latest internet fodder for comment threads and message boards is Charles Ramsey, a man who helped rescue three Cleveland women who were thought dead more than a decade ago. Providing quotes to the pageview-hungry internet media ("I was eatin' my McDonald's.") and others like that have
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Teamsters Shift Course, Frieze Sponsor Deutsche Bank Now a Target
According to documents received by Hyperallergic, the Teamsters have decided to renege on their announcement, made at last month's City Hall press conference, to not target Deutsche Bank in their ongoing challenge of Frieze New York's labor practices.