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After the Oil's Gone: Turning a Boomtown's Forgotten Downtown into an Arts Center
The new downtown satellite of the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa is part of a reinvigorating of the Oklahoma city's downtown.
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A New 'Type' of Reggae
… but I didn't shoot the de-pu-ty.
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The Magic of Making Clouds
We challenge you to not be impressed with Berndnaut Smilde's cloud works which, as he describes, exist between "reality and representation." In this video from The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.adzerk.net/r?e=eyJhdiI6MjczNywiYXQiOjIwLCJjbSI6MzY2MzYsImNoIjoxOTMwLCJjciI6OTM3OTMsImRtIjo0LCJmYyI6MT
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One on One with James Gandolfini: A Brief Reminiscence
CINCINNATI — The Village at the Lift publicity tent has massive, thick walls of white canvas rising high enough to support a second floor balcony. Normally used for large parties, the tent was eerily empty despite it being the opening Friday of the 2009 Sundance Film Festival.
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Pyschedelic Plans for a Post-Apocalyptic Paris
Out of apocalyptic ruin, a Parisian street-sweeper imagined his city rising again with staggering spires grasping up to the skies. These artistic "blueprints" by Marcel Storr were long secreted away, but recent exhibitions have brought this restless new world into the public eye.
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Calm Down, Menstrual Blood Art Isn't a Big Deal
Chilean art school grad Carina Úbeda Chacana unveiled her exhibition, Cloths, at the Center of Culture and Health in Quillota, Chile late last week and it was comprised of a display of five years of her own menstrual fluid along with dangling apples meant to represent her ovulation.
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Senate Expected to Pass Improved Visa Process for Foreign Artists
Americans for the Arts, an arts advocacy nonprofit, announced last night that they have succeeded in securing the inclusion of the Arts Require Timely Service (ARTS) Act in the Obama-endorsed immigration bill now expected to pass the Senate.
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Record Set for Artwork Offered Online Only, $1.98M
There are new signs that collectors are becoming more comfortable with online art sales. Last Friday, June 21, a watercolor by Egon Schiele, “Reclining Woman” (1916), clicked in the highest price yet for an artwork offered in an online-only auction.
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The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things
BRIGHTON, U.K. — It was 1624 when the poet John Donne wrote: “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Nearly 400 years later he would have blown a gasket to see the way we use mobile phones and social networks. And were he to have seen a new show at Nottingham Contemporary, he might have been moved
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Revisiting the NEA Four: Tim Miller on the Road
For his portion of the NEA Four residency at the New Museum, Tim Miller will be doing what he’s been doing for a good part of the past three decades — an intensive weeklong workshop with a group of artists, followed by a group performance of the work they develop during that time.
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How Does One Make an Image of Revolution?
LOS ANGELES — What does it mean to be a revolutionary? How does one make an image of revolution? What are the parallels between religion and revolution? And does religion have a place in our current world?
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor wants to make sure you're getting enough variety in your diet. She's got a hodgepodge of events for you, from an artistic walk to an artists' dialogue to an artist's reading, plus a handful of openings.