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Just Arrived! Your New Aesthetic Survival Guide
With the dawn of the New Aesthetic upon us, survival in this brave new world is paramount. Here is what you need to know.
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Take Two Monets and Call Me in the Morning
I've gone many random places for art, but I never thought I would end up surrounded by lab-coat-wearing doctors and other medical professionals in a lecture hall at the Queens Hospital Center listening to Russian expat artist Alexander Melamid speak about the benefits of art healing.
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Pop Goes the Easel: Roy Lichtenstein’s Retrospective
CHICAGO — The Roy Lichtenstein exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago (AIC) is everything a retrospective should be. It takes an incontrovertibly significant artist, assembles art from all phases of his career, includes well-known and less well-known works and tries to make the case for an oeuvr
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Commission an Original Art Work for $100, Recess Can Make It Happen
Recess has launched a new initiative, called Commission, which connects emerging collectors to Recess artists through the commissioning of a small individualized art works. You'd be crazy not to take advantage of this.
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Bushwick Open Studios: Self-Producing an Artistic Frontier Since 2006
One real estate frontier at a time, the narrative of artist-led gentrification has become naturalized as something close to an economic law. Williamsburg will surely replace Soho as the textbook example in the next edition, and everyone knows that Bushwick is next.
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No Comment: The Korean Taco & Basquiat
"The food vendors are like artists" …
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When Controversy and Failure Become Art
In the exhibition Canceled: Alternative Manifestations and Productive Failures at the Center for Book Arts, the documents, language and narrative of controversy, censorship and failure become a new form of work to consider.
Opinion
A Visit to Caine’s Arcade
It's always a strange feeling when you meet the internet in person. This past weekend, I had the great pleasure of visiting Caine's Arcade, a young boy's makeshift cardboard arcade out in East L.A. that became an internet sensation.
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Cleaning Up Public Art
CHICAGO — As long as there have been cars, there has been automotive grime. And as long as there has been grime, there has been grime graffiti. You know, the sarcastic messages drawn into the dirt with the end of a finger, saying "Wash Me Now!" or "Clean Me Quick!" British artist Ben Long has decide
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K8 Hardy, Please Sashay Away
Fashion as a basis for genuine artistic work may be dead. Even when it's properly approached and used, as in Cindy Sherman’s fashion editorial series or the early installations of artists-cum-couturiers Zowie Broach and Brian Kirkby under the Boudicca label, I tend to find that the medium isn’t bein
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — A peek at studios in New York, France, Connecticut and Germany.
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New Aesthetic Watch: 8-Bit Pop-up Cards
LOS ANGELES — Open source cards that bring a bit of the virtual to the real world.