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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — A View from the Easel peaks into studios in Ireland, Indiana, Maine, Ontario and Florida.
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Coming to Grips with Social Art: Eight Extraordinary Greens
Jenna Spevack’s current exhibition at Mixed Greens seems take a shot at this popular preoccupation. Eight Extraordinary Greens is part public service announcement, part experiment in farming and part installation.
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MTV Sucks and Other Thoughtz from an Art Micro-celebrity
Jayson Musson aka Hennessy Youngman aka Mr. AKA’s might proclaim himself to be many things (including Mitt Romney’s drug dealer), but Tuesday night at Electronic Arts Intermix’s (EAI) screening of his web series Art Thoughtz, Musson seemed reluctant to embrace his identity as an art world celebrity.
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Finishing “Mobile Homestead” After the Death of the Artist
Just a few months after the sudden death of artist Mike Kelley, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit (MOCAD), the LUMA Foundation and Artangel have announced that one of his last projects, "Mobile Homestead," will be likely completed at MOCAD by the end of the year.
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Turning Ruined Polaroids Into Artful Abstractions
LOS ANGELES — William Miller's new Polaroid project explores the "ruined" photograph.
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Northside Art Is Calling All (North Brooklyn) Artists
Many people may know it better for its music lineup, but sprawling North Brooklyn indie-fest the Northside Festival also has an art program — and it's looking for artists through tomorrow.
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The Man Who Dreamed Up the World of Blade Runner
BravinLee Programs in Chelsea has one of the most eye-popping shows currently on display in the city's art galleries … and it's from the man who brought us such cult classics as Blade Runner (1982), Aliens (1986) and Tron (1982).
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Art Rx
This week, the doctor’s concerned about your diet. She wants to make sure it’s well-balanced, so she’s recommending a little bit of everything: the alternative, the institutional and the up-and-coming, plus a healthy dose of the digital.
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It's Time for Recess: A Unique Nonprofit You Need to Know About
It's hard to believe that Recess Art, the Soho-based nonprofit, is only three years old and has already made significant waves in the city's art scene as a place where artists are free to explore process in every which way. "It's a space where you realize projects you can't realize anywhere else," f
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A River of LED Fireflies in Tokyo
LOS ANGELES — Unlike the bright cities that surround them, rivers are usually dark spots at night, recognizable only as absences between well-lit buildings and highways. That’s what makes the image of 100,000 LED lights floating on Tokyo’s Sumida River so evocative. Installed during the Tokyo Hotaru
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Ends Today: A Kickstarter to Tell LA's Creative Stories
LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles, like New York, is a city of migrants. You move to LA in search of something. For many people, that's Hollywood or the music business; for others, it's the city's growing art scene. In makeshift studios and homes across the city, artists and creatives are working hard to ma
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A Sad Goodbye to Brooklyn Museum's 1stfans Membership
LOS ANGELES — A few days ago, Shelley Bernstein at the Brooklyn Museum announced that 1stfans, the museum world's first socially networked membership, would be coming to a close after more than three years of great programming.