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Art Rx
This is a week for big-name, legendary artists — but don't worry, the doctor's got alternative prescriptions, too.
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What Is the Economic Monster of Our Time?
When I recently visited the exhibition CR(I)SES AD(JUST)MENTS (COLLAPSED) at Flux Factory, a solo show by French artist Christine Laquet, I was immediately seduced by a white circular platform featuring red high-heeled shoes and imagery projected onto it from the ceiling. The images fluctuated betwe
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Tips for Artists Who Want to Sell, or Channeling Baldessari in Bushwick
It was a dark and stormy night. Last Thursday, I mean. In Brooklyn, anyway. A storm that brought the kind of hard, windy rain that makes you want to stay home and drink tea. But I didn’t. I snuck into the back of the exhibition space at 3rd Ward instead, sodden and dripping after jogging four blocks
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Unpaid Interns Fight Back
In a big victory for unpaid internship lawsuits, a federal judge ruled last Tuesday that two interns who worked on the movie Black Swan for Fox Searchlight Pictures should have been paid. Federal District Court Judge William H. Pauley III sided with the former interns, Eric Glatt and Alexander Footm
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Three Takes on the Art Basel "Rioters"
Over the weekend, a group of 100 or so activists protesting Tadashi Kawamata and Christophe Scheidegger's "Favela Café” were teargassed at Art Basel. The café, in attempting to mimic the desperate conditions of Brazil's tragic slums, meant to bring introspection and perspective to Art Basel's air of
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Critical Play: Picturing Playgrounds in Central Park
The name Robert Moses has become synonymous with the type of city planning most sentient New Yorkers hate. If he'd had his way, the legendary architect of mid-20th-century New York would have replaced Greenwich Village with a 10-lane highway, much like he razed neighborhoods in the South Bronx to bu
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Some Excuses Why an Artist Is Not Making Art
What's your excuse?
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A Curated Debate: Barbara Bloom at the Jewish Museum
How do you get across the meaning of an object that’s separated from everyday life by the glass of a museum vitrine? This question, constantly grappled with by curators of object-based collections, is very much at stake in the Jewish Museum’s current exhibition As it were ... So to speak: A Museum C
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Study: Mice Prefer Kandinsky to Mondrian
A recent study shows that mice can indeed have preferences to paintings, given the proper morphine reinforcement.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, the Venice Biennale makes the art world go round, a new accessibility icon, Starry Night explained, Warhol inspired Dior, James Turrell overload, and more.
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Weekend Words: Crash
Weekend Words looks at crashes past with an eye toward a crash-free future.
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Brave Heart: The Recent Paintings and Drawings of Mark Greenwold
Ever since Mark Greenwold first began exhibiting in 1979, a lot of gibberish has been written about his highly detailed, modestly scaled oil paintings of disquieting domestic situations. One critic, willfully forgetting that there is a difference between fact and fiction, viciously attacked his firs