Art
Puzzled. That’s a good word to describe my state of being for my first Art Basel Miami Beach (ABMB). One of the primary things I learned is that art fairs can be fun — when you’re standing on the right side of the velvet rope and you have all the right RSVPs and a prepared partinerary printed out.
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A few times during her talk last week, historian and curator Yasmin Ramírez looked over at the copy of Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam War Era by Julia Bryan-Wilson sitting on the table in front of her. It wasn’t a look of love. Each time she referenced the book it was, at least in part
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While most of us don't believe in Christmas miracles, this story may come close. Two and a half months after a story about the potential destruction of a Frank Lloyd Wright house in Phoenix, Arizona, appeared on the front page of the New York Times, a deal has gone through to buy the building from i
Interview
BERKELEY, California — Marc Adelman's project, "Stelen (Columns)" has been met with critical acclaimed and controversy. It's time to hear what the artist himself has to say about the series.
Opinion
Is it a bird? A plane? Superman? Nope, it's a remote-controlled surveillance and/or killing machine. James Bridle, the coiner of the New Aesthetic, has created a model kit to help civilians better understand their UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles).
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If you thought that Instagram was deaf to the public outcry that started on Monday with their proposed terms of service then you'd be wrong. Instagram co-founder Kevin Systrom wrote another blog post tonight that explains …
Art
KATHMANDU, Nepal — The Kathmandu International Art Festival opened on a sunny November 25 morning in the grand ballroom of Yak & Yeti hotel in Kathmandu. Though this was the second international art festival (the first was Between Myth and Reality: Status of Women in 2009) to be hosted in the new re
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There was a period when I didn't know what, exactly a "selfie" was. It sounded like a euphemism for something. Now I know that it's just a self-portrait — our medium of choice for Facebook and Instagram (RIP). Two recent phenomena, faked selfies and art critic Brian Droitcour's #artselfies, take the
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We hate to discuss art trends because it makes art sound like fashion, but, alas, they're real and they happen. Remember that whole "prop paintings up on objects" trend last year, well, this year I\we spotted a few things we wanted to point out as the year comes to a close.
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The starchitecture of Frank Gehry, Zaha Hadid, and Rem Koolhaas might rule the day today, but the world's earliest architecture was quite a bit more, shall we say, austere. Archaeologists have unearthed the oldest known example of wooden architecture, a 7000-year old structure.
Art
Isabel Borgata is not an octogenarian: she’s 91. She’s also a sculptor who’s been working professionally for the past 70 years. Borgata is not entirely healthy — she has Parkinson’s disease — but she is clear-eyed and resolute, and continues to work everyday.
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“I think nobody believed something like that could happen,” said artist Nancy Goldring. Vibrant and incredibly young looking at 68, Goldring was talking about Hurricane Sandy and the enormous flooding it caused. We were sitting in her spacious 11th-floor apartment in Westbeth, an artists’ housing co