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This summer the Studio Museum in Harlem is hosting five extensive exhibitions that hold true to its mission and bring both established artists and those in training under the same roof. Packed into the museum’s intimate space on 125th Street, the shows offer a tremendous range of mostly thought-prov
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The video opens with the sound of the tide, and a tight close-up of the artist bringing a stone from a shoreline to her mouth. She licks it slowly. The act, along with the sound of the sea, is both primal and sensual. The ritualized action is repeated, establishing a deep connection between the arti
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Peter Nadin’s “First Mark” opened at Gavin Brown’s enterprise on June 29th, the first time the artist has exhibited his work in this country since 1992. There's been massive coverage of Nadin’s “comeback,” but is the show grabbing headlines simply because of Nadin's backstory and the list of boldfac
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Carmageddon 2011 might chiefly be remembered as the big transportation nightmare that wasn't [http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-carmageddon-20110719,0,5035874.story]: an accelerated work schedule, coupled with a couple million people in the Los Angeles area realizing they didn't need to drive
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The specter of communism currently haunts the New Museum [http://www.newmuseum.org/] in its summer "bloc-buster" exhibition “Ostalgia.” [http://www.newmuseum.org/exhibitions/440/] It’s an ambitious project that consumes most of the galleries with a swirling conglomeration of disparate mediums, artis
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As geopsychically wondrous [http://hyperallergic.com/29365/a-geopsychic-tour-of-new-orleans/] as New Orleans is, it's not exactly the most cutting edge of places; in fact, even in these days of instantaneous communication it sometimes takes ideas and trends a little longer to make their way down her
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The Bronx Museum's Artists in the Marketplace (AIM) program has helped emerging artists in the New York area navigate the business side of art since the 1980s. AIM is now celebrating its 30th anniversary with two joint exhibitions at the Bronx Museum and Wave Hill: Bronx Calling: The First AIM Bienn
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This week's Required Reading has a talk by Ji Lee, Anthony Weiner on the street, Samarqand pics, Lucien Freud's subjects speak, the Museum of (in)Tolerance, Google image search changes, Matt Black's Mexican photos and James Schamus on art in times of crisis.
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I get lots of emails from people these days asking about the Beijing art scene. What's it like? How does it compare to New York and Los Angeles? In a country of 1 billion people, with a number of different art centers, there's of course no simple answer. But if America's art mecca is Chelsea in New
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This morning I stood frozen in private terror facing a room full of smiling senior citizens with various stages of memory loss, feeling ill-prepared to ask them to draw someone who they had never actually met. That is the conceit of my memory-based drawing project, here on the sunny shores of Lake
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"These phenomenona, these wonders of New Orleans, are for the most part simply not explainable in terms of history and culture alone. There is obviously another force at work here, another system, a world of secret realities which is continuously and quietly in confrontation with our own." In other
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Whether sequestered behind glass in a museum or sold to tourists along Fifth Avenue, the African mask is an image from the non-Western world that we are all familiar with. Yet walking though the African art galleries at the Metropolitan Museum of Art [http://metmuseum.org] the other day, I felt some