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On Coffee Houses, Salons, and the Post Arts
So back in the late 15th century, Ottoman people started gathering to drink together. The beverage they consumed? The magical elixir and arguably the greatest drink known to humanity, coffee.
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The United States of Armory
Every year, the Armory Show art fair chooses an area of the globe to zoom in on for its Focus section, a curated selection of mostly emerging galleries that often includes some of the fair’s chief highlights and surprises. For 2013, the Armory’s Focus section takes on its own home base, the United S
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Does Nick Cave's Protest Song for Athens Capture the Zeitgeist?
LONDON — Since the outbreak of the Crisis in Greece, many parallels have been drawn between Greece and Germany. Indeed, Paul Mason at the BBC looked back to the Weimar and the rise of fascism as a reflection of the rise of fascism in Greece, while T Magazine called Athens the new Berlin.
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When Artspeak Masks Oppression
“Without its special language, would art need to submit to the scrutiny of broader audiences and local ones? Would it hold up?” So asks online art publication Triple Canopy’s widely circulated essay “International Art English,” in which the authors catalogued the death of meaning in the language of
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Harpo Foundation Announces Individual Artist Grants
Harpo Foundation has been a supporter of the visual arts and arts organizations since 2007, in the last year along funding exhibitions and programming at the Liverpool Biennial, Printed Matter, and New York Foundation for the Arts. Now, the foundation has announced that it will begin supporting indi
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Mythological Moments from India’s First Biennale
KOCHI, India — I finally made the trip to Kerala, on India’s southern tip, not because tourism websites insist upon it as God’s own country, but because the first ever biennale hosted in India is taking place there at Kochi (or Cochin), a city that was once a thriving spice port. Bringing together a
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Back to School with the New Mysticism at SPRING/BREAK
There's something about entering a school that always gives a feeling of déjà vu, with the pastel-hued hallways and orderly lines of desks likes ghosts of the past. That's something that makes the SPRING/BREAK Art Show's return to the Old School on Mott Street something of a challenge, in that the c
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Metropolitan Museum Snaps Up an Unrecognized David Drawing for $700
What happens when you get the best art historians, curators, and conservators together in a single museum? Well, you're pretty likely to get the best deals in the art world, as the Metropolitan Museum just did when it snagged a Jacques-Louis David drawing for $700 ($840 with premium).
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Beat Brooklyn Armory Night With WAGMAG and Pernod Absinthe's Art & Absinthe Guide
With Armory Week rapidly sneaking up on us, there are two things you’re going to need to survive: a guide to which shows are going on where and a strong drink (or several). Thankfully, Pernod is here to solve both of those problems.[http://engine.adzerk.net/v/0/42449_37244_20_0/v.gif?r=paaaaamar5 ]
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One Radical Archive Offers a Hands-on Approach to Activist Art
The intensified activism of the 1960s fueled by the Vietnam War and struggles over class inequality, women's rights, and black liberation drove the rapid growth of the underground press. Between 1965 and 1969, the five indie counterculture newspapers scattered across the United States multiplied to
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Portland's New $35 Arts Tax Begins
Though the National Endowment for the Arts seems under constant threat of being gutted, one city initiative is putting arts funding at the forefront of civic responsibility rather than last on the list. In November of last year, Portland, Oregon, passed a new annual income tax of a flat $35 fee that
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Art Rx: Armory Week
Happy Armory Week, New York! It's that time again — time to get your fair on.