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Cooper Union Students End Their Occupation
The 11 Cooper Union students who barricaded themselves in the school's Foundation Building clock tower have emerged, ending their occupation a week after it began.
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Opinion
Get Ready for the Flood of 3D Printed Objects
I have a prediction. In the next few years, the art world will be awash in 3D printed objects. I noticed a number this year at the Miami art fairs but they were certainly limited in quantity.
Opinion
Overheard in the Art World: Miami Edition
This week, when promiscuous street artists, pretentious collectors, wannabe art loving celebs, and drunk tweeting curators jumped on planes across the globe to fly to the annual Miami Basel week, we had a bit of an #OHAW orgasm.
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Looking Around Miami Basel: Where Did All the Bodies Go?
MIAMI — There are many stories about the origins of art: ancient Greek historian Pliny suggested art was born when a Corinthian maiden traced the outline of her lover’s shadow on a wall, while an Asian legend tells of a young man who could not paint the Buddha because of his enlightened glow, and so
Comics
Yet Another Art Fair Full of Disappointments
I never get to see what I want to see …
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the economics of art fairs, GIF history, Maurice Sendak, Louvre is decentralizing, a seminal Richard Serra work in danger, Chinese food, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Drinking
At Weekend Words, it’s never too early, or too late, to start celebrating the holidays.
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Waste Not, Want Not: Phyllida Barlow's New Work
As my colleague Thomas Micchelli pointed out in his review of siege, Phyllida Barlow’s exhibition of sculpture at the New Museum earlier this year, she has something in common with Hans Hoffman. Both were teachers who have an impressive roster of distinguished students. In Hoffmann’s case, it includ
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A Monstrous Woman: The Recent Paintings of Carroll Dunham
Carroll Dunham’s recent paintings are a dark comment on the tradition of the idyll, which goes back a long way in painting, and includes such modernist highpoints as Paul Gauguin’s "The Seed of the Areoi" (1892) and Henri Matisse’s "Luxe, Calme et Volupte" (1904) and "Joy of Life" (1906). In additio
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The Women of the Miami Project
MIAMI — The first artworks I enjoyed when I walked into the Miami Project, one of two newcomers to Art Basel Miami Beach fair week this year, were paintings by Monique Prieto at ACME. Then I discovered photographs by Lee Materazzi. After that, there was Daniela Comani's wonderful installation "Beau
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Does Authentic Social Critique Have a Place in Miami Fair Week?
MIAMI — Sometimes, the art world likes to slum it — hit up a yet-to-be-gentrified artist-studio neighborhood and forget about the world of the white cube. Miami, with its glitz, art-deco hotels, and penchant for plastic surgery, is quite a bit less gritty than New York City, but on Thursday night, a
Books
Mechanical Brides and Theatrical Politics: Laura Mullen’s Enduring Freedom
In 2009, Stephen Burt identified a new poetics for the twenty-first century, a poetics that insists on a kind of phenomenological permanence and solidity, on a material “thingness” rather than a “showy insubstantiality.” In his widely read essay “The New Thing,” Burt argues that there has been a mar