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The Ordinary Adventures of an Extraordinary Batman
LOS ANGELES — The appeal of Batman has always been that he's a regular old human being. This is why artist Sara Johnson's Ordinary Batman Adventures are so delightful.
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When Advertising Follows Art
Sometimes advertising follows art, and this is one of those times. Presenting Doug Aitkens' "Migration" (2008) and a very recent commercial for Residence Inn (2012).
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The Corporate Sponsorship of Baby X
Yesterday, Bushwick artist Marni Kotak emailed a video of her baby, Baby X (aka Ajax), and the announcement that he has a new corporate sponsorship tattoo.
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The Avant/Garde Diaries invites you to Transmission LA: AV Club Curated by Mike D
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/9990/10800/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/15964/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. On April 20 - May 6th, 2012 The Avant Garde
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The Guerrilla Girls Get Nostalgic
While a crowd of roughly 150 people sat and chatted in the Brooklyn Museum’s auditorium last Thursday night, waiting for the appearance of the Guerrilla Girls, Christina Aguilera played over the sound system. “What a girl wants, what a girl needs,” she sang — lines and a melody that came as somethin
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Occupying Poetry With a People’s Anthology
The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology is over a thousand pages long. It includes poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg, and by thousands of lesser- and unknown writers from around the world. The work is in multiple languages. And it’s coming to a library near you.
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Book Spurning: The People's Library at OWS
When the NYPD — invasion-clad and riot-tooled — swiftly and forcibly dislodged protestors of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from their stronghold in Zuccotti Park on November 15 last year, they mangled and destroyed, among other things, the so-called “people’s” library, an impressive collection of
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Required Reading
This week, Koons' hanging train, Mona Lisa dates change, Bloomberg gets its name on Hirshhorn balloon, 20 must-see artist websites, the exit of Exit Art, the Dictionary of American Regional English is complete, 60 Minutes to tackle contemporary art and more …
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Some Things I Know About This Artist
Max Gimblett was born in Auckland, New Zealand, in 1935. From 1962 to 1964, while living in Canada, he worked as a potter, an experience that has influenced his relationship to materials and process. In 1965, he moved to San Francisco, and began studying painting at the San Francisco Art Institute,
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Why There Are Great Artists
The current exhibition of paintings, watercolors, and prints by Sylvia Plimack Mangold at Alexander and Bonin (March 16–April 28, 2012) got me thinking once again about the different kinds of spaces she has constructed in her work, beginning with the tilting planes in her early paintings, such as "F
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Indigestible Portions: Peter Saul at Mary Boone
What degree of willful perversity is required to think of Peter Saul as heir to Velázquez? Perhaps as much as it takes to plunk a Peter Saul show inside the ultra-blue-chip Mary Boone Gallery, but that’s where we find ourselves on the eve of All Fool’s Day, 2012.
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Bronx Museum Is Free, Sets Goal to Raise Attendance by 50% in 2012
If the price of everything is going up, it's nice to see when some things go down in cost, even if it's only temporary. The Bronx Museum announced this week that they will be dropping their admission fee in an effort to increase their attendance and reach out to members of the community who haven't