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New York's Best Kept Caribbean Secret Moves Uptown
An abandoned firehouse on the east end of 125th Street will be renovated and transformed into the new home of the Caribbean Cultural Center African Diaspora Institute.
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Artists Cancel Creative Time Summit Appearances Over Israeli "Partnership" [UPDATE 7]
Hip hop duo Rebel Diaz, artist Narcenio Hall and Cairo-based art collective Mosireen are boycotting the two-day 2012 Creative Time Summit in Manhattan because of what they are calling a partnership with an Israeli organization that is funded by the Israeli government.
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Why Are We Revisiting the Times Square Show?
Thirty-two years after being labeled the "first radical art show of the '80s," the Times Square Show, a raucous and revolutionary DIY art exhibition held in an abandoned massage parlor on 41st Street and Seventh Avenue in the old dirty and devastated Times Square, has been revived by the Hunter Coll
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Met Museum Makes Hundreds of Catalogues Available Online for Free
Bibliophiles rejoice! The Metropolitan Museum of Art has published 643 books about art and art history online, including the full contents of 368 out-of-print titles from 1964 to the present.
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Outsider Culture Writ Large
BERKELEY, California — As the grand finale for SFMoMA's exhibition, Stage Presence, which delved into the theatrical of contemporary art, Rashaad Newsome performed "Shade Compositions" (2005) in Haas Atrium, just inside the museum's entrance, on October 4. "Shade Compositions" has been an ongoing pe
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There's a Narwhal in Our Mail
Recently, we received a mysterious black cardboard box covered in white writing and octopus tentacles. The package was from artist Zoë Williams, who surprised us with a wonderful — if unexpected — narwhal felt sculpture.
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Does Barry McGee Have Something to Prove?
BERKELEY, California — Recently I went on my first visit to the Berkeley Art Museum to see their Barry McGee show. To be honest, I was mostly indifferent to McGee walking into the show, and largely skeptical about graffiti or street artists' role in a museum setting. Although the show convinced me o
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Go for stillspotting but Stay for the Bronx: 10 Great Things to See
This weekend, Oct 13-14, The Guggenheim Museum will be hosting the fifth and final edition in the stillspotting nyc [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/] series, stillspotting nyc: bronx [http://stillspotting.guggenheim.org/visit/bronx/]. For this installment, Guggenheim has teamed up with Charlie
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A Designer Reimagines Contemporary Office Space
CHICAGO — Given that most of us labor in virtual space these days and our work requires little more than a desk, a computer, and a keyboard to get done, why do we stick to such outmoded concepts as cubicles and cafeterias? A current exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, The Outdoor Office: Jon
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A Ukrainian Catholic Church Declares Taras Polataiko's Sleeping Beauty Project "Lesbian Propaganda"
CHICAGO — Fairytales are make-believe until a country's Catholic Church decides to protest them. Ukranian-Canadian artist Taras Polataiko's experimental performance artwork "Sleeping Beauty," a modern-day retelling of the titular fairytale restaged at the National Museum of Art Ukraine from August 2
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Halloween Costume Conundrum: Beast Jesus or Big Bird?
With Halloween only three weeks away, those of us in the art community are facing a very important decision: what should we dress up as — Beast Jesus or Big Bird?
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Divisive Funding Crisis Shuts Down National Museum of Bosnia
The National Museum of Bosnia and Herzegovina shut its doors last Thursday because of a severe lack of funding. The museum had operated continuously for the last 124 years, even through the Bosnian War in the early 1990s, but a longstanding and infuriating political quagmire have made keeping it ope