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Small Town Gay Community
CHICAGO — Johannesburg-based South African artist Sabelo Mlangeni's photographs depict a celebratory, positive, and campy-funny queer life in the countryside.
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Opinion
Two Met Members Sue Museum for "Continuing to Deceive and Defraud the Public" Over Admission Fees
Ok, we may think high museum admission fees are ridiculous but this new suit by two longtime Metropolitan Museum of Art members is over the top.
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Queer Art’s not Just About Gender — A Chicago Survey
CHICAGO — Just because you say art’s queer doesn’t mean it’s about depictions of dicks and vajayjays, man. Over the past few months, two large-scale exhibitions dealing with changing notions of what “queer art” even is have overflowed into Chicago’s art world.
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5 Go Brooklyn Artists Chosen for Brooklyn Museum Show
We already chimed in about GO Brooklyn's Top 10 nominees but now they field has been shaved to five artists who will be featured in an exhibition, which opens December 1, at the Brooklyn Museum.
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Being Odie in a Garfield World
LOS ANGELES — Audaciously exuberant, Odie, the lovable dog from Jim Davis’s Garfield comics, was a yellow-furred dream come true for any child of the 1980s. It was also, interestingly, artist Jim Drain’s emotional North Star when it came to his latest solo exhibition, Drain Expressions, at Los Angel
Performance
REMIX! Is the Magic Still There?
Fitting for an event exploring the transformation of existing material into new work, the RE/Mixed Media Festival last Saturday offered any number of unique experiences depending on which panel, performance, or music event you decided to sample. There was Greek theater colliding with hip hop, classi
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A West Coast Press Turns 50
SAN FRANCISCO — The main focus of the de Young Museum, located in Golden Gate Park and given a big redesign by architects Herzog and De Meuron in 2005, is American art past and present, encompassing ancient art of all the Americas as well as art of the United States from the colonial era up to today
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4 Finds from Last Weekend's Brooklyn Comics and Graphics Festival
Last Saturday, November 10th's Brooklyn Comics and Graphic Festival one-day fair was a packed event that featured close to a hundred exhibitors that attracted thousands of fans from across the city. The enthusiasm on the two-floors of Our Lady of Mt. Carmel's church hall in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, w
Interview
A Place Where Art and Religion Meet
The close relationship that art and religion maintained for several millennia has in recent decades eroded so drastically that it's difficult to imagine fine arts and contemporary religion having anything in common. Art is, on the whole, a secular enterprise, and religion is frequently more anesthet
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Something Shared, Artissima Giornale #5
TURIN — Things are shared, and time exists only in the present tense. I wanted to journal about the movements surrounding Artissima, Torino’s international art fair, because I’m curious to think about how art can live or die depending on the conditions in which it is placed. Recently I've found glob
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An Art Space, a Kickstarter, and a Community
At the risk of generalizing, one might say that community spaces get short shrift in the art world. It's not entirely clear why, but most likely it has something to do with their lack of marketability, their focus on engaging people rather than money — and perhaps more specifically, people without m
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Ferris Bueller, Vodkamelons, and Other Youthful Follies
BERKELEY, California — Adam Parker Smith's new show Forever 21 at Ever Gold Gallery is an investigation of youthful aesthetics taken seriously.