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What Part of Your Brain Falls in Love With Art?
LOS ANGELES — If you're reading this, you probably know the feeling. You've just fell in love with a work of art. Now science is trying to figure out how that happens.
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Is Stolen Art Work in Bushwick a Case of False Advertising?
Adam Simon's Steal This Art doesn't really mean it. Too bad the culprit didn't know that.
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Food Court Threatens Alice Aycock Sculpture at JFK
Oy! The Terminal One Group Association (TOGA) at JFK airport wants to dismantle and remove a work inside that terminal, "Star Sifter," by renowned American sculptor Alice Aycock.
Opinion
"Procrastiworking" Your Way to Creative Success
LOS ANGELES — It's hard work being a full-time artist. Sure, outsiders think artists live a free, unencumbered life, full of self-expression and joie de vivre.
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Against the Tide: NY State Increases Arts Funding by $4M
Just when many Americans thought that government funding for the arts was going the way of the dodo, last month New York State passed a budget that included a $4 million increase in grants funding to the State Council on the Arts. That morsel of budgetary fact may have been lost on many, but Assembl
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New Faile Mural Lands in Williamsburg
Attention street art aficionados: a new public work by Faile has landed in Williamsburg! The piece, helpfully titled "104 N. 7th," departs from the pop-art collage aesthetic the duo's best known for and features instead thousands of hand-painted, sculpted ceramic tiles covering the facade of a comme
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ArtPrize Artist Registration Now Open, Jurors Revealed
Artist registration is open now for the fourth annual ArtPrize. Part art competition, part social experiment, the event overtakes downtown Grand Rapids, Michigan, bringing in hundreds of thousands of visitors from across the country. Designed to be a simple yet transformative experience for both art
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Monet Mania
The recently deceased Thomas Kinkade may have had barely any effect on the contemporary art world (beyond a thoughtful essay or two), but the influence of the artist I'd call the original painter of light, Claude Monet, has waned little over the past century. And currently two Monet-inspired exhibit
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Artist Payments at NYC Nonprofits, By the Numbers
As a supplement to "Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking) Poor?" here is some of the data from the 2010 W.A.G.E. survey of payments received by artists who exhibited with nonprofit art institutions in New York City between 2005 and 2010.
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Why Are (Most) Artists (So Fucking) Poor?
On Friday evening W.A.G.E. presented the results of its 2010 survey of payments received by artists who exhibited with nonprofit art institutions in New York City between 2005 and 2010. The survey found that 58% of artists who responded received "no form of payment."
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No More Garden Variety Avant-Garde Has-Beens
Before focusing on Kathy Bradford’s exhibition of new paintings at the Edward Thorp Gallery, I want to mention Eric Fischl’s recent paintings and the second coming of the Titanic, both oddly relevant for their irrelevance.
Opinion
Required Reading
This week, Keith Haring in the Village, painter chic, 10 songs that saved (an artist's) life, Kehinde Wiley's unsettling Israeli show, de Kooning's "source," Monet's ultraviolet vision, Chinese-American photography, architectural stationary and more.