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First Lady of NY Graffiti Traces Her Evolution

While everyone even loosely connected to the art world is in Miami this week, I want to stick up for those of us still stuck in the cold by taking a look at an artist and medium that could not possibly be more quintessentially New York: Lady Pink.

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Occupy Museums Protest at Lincoln Center Gets Bolster from Philip Glass, Lou Reed and Laurie Anderson

Philip Glass, Laurie Anderson and Lou Reed joined last night's Occupy Museums demonstration at Lincoln Center, held to coincide with the final performance of Glass's Satyagraha at the Metropolitan Opera.

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AIDS, Art and Activism: Remembering Gran Fury

The collective used a heady combination of bold graphic design, guerrilla dissemination tactics, and art institutional support to communicate the urgency of the AIDS epidemic in light of disastrous government and political inaction.

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Looking at 2011 Art Basel Miami Beach Through the Prism of One Influential Painter

MIAMI — With Soutine in mind, and the world’s best galleries around me, I culled a few great works by mostly 1950s US artists that have Soutine in mind.

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Torres Garcia to the Left of Me, Torres Garcia to the Right of Me

MIAMI — Every year art watchers see trends. Many of these are more about the commentator's interests and fixations than anything real. This year, I kept seeing works by great Uruguayan modernist Joaquín Torres García.

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Hermitage Invites Contemporary Artist into Their Permanent Collection

MIAMI — For the first time, a contemporary artist has been invited to play with the permanent collection at the fabled Hermitage. Anthony Gormley tackles the museum's classical collection and creates a humanizing display.

Opinion

Art Rx: From New York to Miami

Hyperallergic is in Miami this week soaking up the sun and the art fairs, but we've still got the remedy for those sick with the art bug back in New York. This week's Art Rx takes you outside Manhattan to the Bronx, Brooklyn, Long Island City and even Beacon, New York. You'll be itching to jump on m

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Work of Art Recap: Bravo Product Placement Challenge

We open with our artistes bonding on their bonding couch that they always bond on. They mourn the loss of the Sucklord, until they remember that Dusty had promised Young that if their team won the previous challenge, Dusty would wear Young's short shorts. A disturbingly sexually charged montage foll

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2012 London Olympics Causes Artist Rents to Skyrocket

You can’t see out of the east-facing window of artist Dragica Carlin’s London studio, because of all the paintings that are stacked against it. But if you could, you’d be looking straight towards the site of the 2012 Olympic Games, in Hackney, east London. Carlin came to London from Croatia nearly t

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So THIS is Primitive and Tribal art

I received an email from Nasser and Co in response to the article “WTF is Primitive vs. Tribal Art” where I had sited that the gallery had used both the terms “primitive" and “tribal” on their façade and website respectively, to describe the artwork they exhibit and sell. Assured that both terms did

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Are Conflict Diamonds Still in Fashion at the Museum at FIT? [UPDATED]

Oh no, it’s like Naomi Campbell all over again! Well, not quite. One of the sponsors of the Daphne Guinness blockbuster exhibition at the Museum at FIT, Leviev Extraordinary Diamonds, has recently come under fire for some shady activities involving shall we say “questionable” diamond trades, upsetti