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An Ephemeral Cloud You Will Never See Live
LOS ANGELES — Olafur Eliasson turned the Tate's Turbine Hall into a cloud. Doug Wheeler made it feel like we're in a cloud. And now one artist, Berndaut Smilde, is putting a cloud in the gallery.
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Neither Under Construction Nor Complete
CHICAGO — We’re now a quarter of the way through Scottish artist Martin Creed’s year-long “residency” at the MCA Chicago. I put “residency” in quotation marks because Creed is only going to be here sporadically throughout 2012. So far, the MCA has put one new work by Creed on display each month, non
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LA Museum Buys Painting of 18th C Actors
I guess we should be expect an LA museum to acquire a painting of actors but this one might be by the great 18th C. French painter Jean-Antoine Watteau.
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Tonight's State of Drawing Panel and Amy Sillman's iPhone Animation
Tonight's invite-only symposium organized by The Drawing Center invited five artists and two curators to explore the state of drawing today. Here's my report.
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What If Our Clothes Mimicked Animals?
LOS ANGELES — I recently stumbled across the work of Los Angeles artist Amisha Gadani, an artist-in-residence at a science lab in UCLA. Gadani has created a series of "interactive wearables" that mimic the protective features of animals in a fun way, marrying fashion with science.
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Art Rx
This week, we're all in recovery and laying low but the doctor says you need to get out of the house. We're cleansing our systems of the New York art fairs and moving onto something new. The doctor has written you a prescription that involves lots of crocheting, timelines galore, artful dinner conve
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Covering Geopolitical Tensions with Bedcovers
LOS ANGELES — Tucked away in a small corner at LACMA is a new show: Common Places: Printing, Embroidery and the Art of Global Mapping. Culled together from the museum's permanent collection, the works consist of embroidery inspired by printed paper works.
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Crime as American Idol
SAN FRANCISCO — About twenty years ago, Sega released a video game titled Michael Jackson’s Moonwalker. As a young lad, me and my friends spent hours in front of the television playing as Michael Jackson as he scurried through dark alleys killing bad guys with high kicks and fedora hat throws. The S
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MFA Boston Rolls Out New iPad Catalogue of American Collection
LOS ANGELES — The iPad catalogue trend continues, this time with a gorgeous new digital catalogue released by the Museum of Fine Art in Boston. Celebrating their Paintings of the Americas collection, the catalogue offers a timeline of American history through painting, with chapters like "The Coloni
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Woodward Gallery Opens Ghost on Eldridge Street
Over the last few years Woodward Gallery has been transforming their stretch of Eldridge Street on the Lower East Side into a lively hotspot with regularly packed art openings, a rotating outdoor street art venue and now a bar named Ghost.
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Advice from an Artist: Steal Like an Artist
LOS ANGELES —What are the rules of creativity? How can we unlock it? This is a question nagging all artists, because we all know the experience of sitting in our studios, staring at a blank canvas or a piece of paper or what-have-you, and not quite knowing what to do.
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The Return of Pocket Utopia …This Time on the LES
This March 28, Pocket Utopia will return to the New York art scene but this time on Henry Street in the Lower East Side. During its first incarnation the idea of Pocket Utopia, which is the brain child of artist Austin Thomas, opened on Flushing Avenue in Bushwick, Brooklyn in the Summer 2007 and co