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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — The 33rd installment of a series in which artists send in a photo and a description of their workspace.
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What Happened to Artists?
Money changes everything?
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Required Reading
This week, Michelangelo goes to jail, the story behind a famous Vietnam War photo, Richard Arschwager dies, the art market is evil, China's art market has shrunk, and more.
Opinion
Weekend Words: Bones
With this week's discovery of the bones of King Richard III, Weekend Words takes a break from its usual format to present some favorite lines from one of Shakespeare's most demonic plays.
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Mobility Issues: On John Ashbery's Recent Poetry
If you’re interested in John Ashbery—and why wouldn’t you be?—you probably read the profile on him that was recently published in the New York Observer. The best part, the part that had the most to say about his poetry, came about a third of the way into it, with the writer, Michael H. Miller, descr
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Henri Michaux’s Disintegrating Selves
The small selection of paintings and drawings currently at Edward Thorp Gallery serves as an introduction to Henri Michaux (1899 – 1984), one of the most original artists and writers of the 20th century. There are writers who made art — e.e. cummings, D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller come to mind — bu
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Beer with a Painter: Kyle Staver
A couple of years ago, when I was still resisting Facebook, I heard about the debates Kyle Staver was spearheading there on the topic of Renoir’s late paintings. I set up a profile because I had to know more about this independent-minded female painter who likes Renoir’s work as much as I do. Since
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Doubling Back: Sarah Plimpton on the Page and the Wall
It was 2005. I had gone to an opening of works by Sarah Plimpton at the June Kelly Gallery [http://junekellygallery.com/] on Mercer Street. Around me on the walls was art I could only address in a frame of mind rare here in the bustle and buzz of NewYork. Around us, on the walls, were great shapes,
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Waste Not: One Artist’s Rules of the Game
You could look at Environmental Service’s exhibition, What is Yours is Mine, as a maximalist spin on Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953). But you’d be wrong.
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Stop Talking Shit About Stock Photography
Stock photography is a rapidly growing, global industry — and thanks to mass proliferation on the internet, a billion-dollar one, too. But let’s not kid ourselves: we look down on these hypercommercial images and consider them akin to junk food: cheap, ubiquitous, and easily digestible.
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Cooper Union Art Faculty Rejects Proposal for Tuition
It's been two months since the Cooper 11 students ended their clock tower occupation, but the battle at the Cooper Union over the question of tuition is far from over. The latest news is that the faculty of the School of Art has taken a public stand against the idea of charging tuition.
Opinion
What People Are Saying About George W. Bush's Bathroom Paintings
It should be expected that anything related to George W. Bush and art will generate discussion, so we couldn't wait to see the comments from the netizenry about the latest Presidential Sunday painter.