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Artists Remember Pop Art and Soho Pioneer Ivan Karp
A significant figure in the development of Pop Art and the Soho gallery scene, Ivan Karp is dead. He died at his home in Charlotteville, New York, on Thursday, June 27 at the age of 86.
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Surprise! Study Finds US Arts Orgs Overbuilt in the Last 2 Decades
Much has been said and speculated about the US arts building boom in the late '90s/early aughts, with expansions, renovations and new starchitect-designed buildings practically rampant among arts institutions. But what were the actual results and costs of all these projects? Were they successful? Re
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Keith Haring Products Redefine the Ability to Find Pleasure in Art
Last week I got an email advertising a collaboration between Shepard Fairey's apparel company OBEY and the Keith Haring Foundation, resulting in T-shirts, tank tops and baseball hats — including one with an unsettling combination of Haring's three-eyed face and Fairey's OBEY graphic — sold at mall h
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Is that the Washington Monument in Your Pants or Are You Just Happy to See Me?
Although phallic forms in public space is nothing new, the documentation of the public interaction with them is newly available online, and hilarious.
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Can Performance Art be Collected…and Still Maintain its Original Message…?
By definition, performance art is transitory. It’s sometimes spontaneous. It’s often interactive. And it’s always an experience. It isn’t, however, a tangible object like, say, a painting, sculpture or even a string of musical chords on paper. And so, we’re left with a perplexing question: can perfo
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Graffiti Writer "Bombs" Brooklyn Bridge
After a decade of being graffiti free, one legendary spot on the Brooklyn Bridge gets hit.
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Artist Denied Right to Paint in Prison
Yesterday, artist Odd Nerdrum lost his appeal in Norwegian courts this week and, in a strange twist of fate, he will receive an even longer jail sentence than the one he was appealing.
Art
The Art-Fair-ification of the Art World
The town of Basel, located on a bendy segment of the River Rhein, is where France, Germany and Switzerland meet. Basel is not the place to go if you are on a budget; if you have to ask the price of a wiener and a pint, you probably can’t afford it. Each year in June the art world power elite comes t
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Art Rx
This week the doctor prescribes a bike ride around Brooklyn, with stops in Williamsburg, Gowanus and Cobble Hill.
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Hotel Offers Rooms in Exchange for Art
The Chelsea Hotel may no longer be the artistic haven it once was, but artists looking for a friendly place where they can barter artwork for lodging need look no farther than ... Sweden!
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A Secret Heritage: Modern Art in Zambia
While the world is looking in another direction art flourishes in the African country of Zambia on a shoestring. The desire of Zambian artists to create is so strong that they will use anything. From burlap sacks to car paint, even old bed sheets are often used in the place of canvases as the materi