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O Arts Donors Where Art Thou?
Where are the arts donors and why aren't they pressuring Washington?
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A View from the Easel, Part 14
Visit studios in Brooklyn, San Francisco, Detroit, Cloverdale, California, and New York.
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor wants you to travel. From the Upper East Side to the art-borhood of Ridgewood, Queens, you have a long way to go before you get over whatever it is you have.
Art
Hoping for a Nexus of Creativity in New Orleans
The New Orleans Museum of Art hosted a luncheon today for members of arts community that amounted to something much more than the usual meet and greet.
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Frieze Fatigue
I had heard that Frieze New York was huge, but I have been to Armory and Basel Miami, so I assumed that it was just another art fair, sure there would be a lot of stuff to look at, but nothing this hardened New Yorker couldn't handle.
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Artist Makes Real Rainbows
Well, here's something we didn't think could be done: homemade rainbows. Artist Michael Jones McKean has figured out how to create colorful arcs of light in the sky, and he'll be projecting them above the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in Omaha, Nebraska, this summer. It's like instant happiness
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26th Street Courts the Masses with a Block Party
In unofficial conjunction with the inauguration of Frieze New York on Randall’s Island, the galleries on Chelsea's 26th Street decided to go big and throw a block party last Saturday. If there is one kind of party that galleries excel at, it’s glamorous and exclusive after-hours functions, on a roof
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Can We Queer the (Art) World, and Why Should We?
I’m going to start this essay with the conclusion. Why should we be looking for different ways of thinking about and living in the world? Because many of the dominant political social, and intellectual structures that currently underpin our society have proven themselves to be colossally flawed, so
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Yayoi Kusama Does Alice in Wonderland
It seems fitting that artist Yayoi Kusama's characteristic polka dots appear in a children's book and in the trippy Alice in Wonderland no less.
Art
Artists as Job Creators
CHICAGO — The National Governors Association has just issued a report titled "New Engines for Growth: Five Roles for Arts, Culture and Design." I decided to read the whole thing, a task that I approached with some dread, given the prospect of wading through 45 pages of corporate art-speak. In fact,
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Is Ridgewood Breaking Away from the Bushwick Scene?
A Queens neighborhood, with the help of the Queens Museum of Art, is coming into its artified own.
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Four Paintings in a White Box
Last weekend I visited Regina Rex in Ridgewood, Queens, and it felt like a relief to be able to spend time in a gallery that also inhabits a studio building, which means being surrounded by artists rather than dealers.