Art
Conserving the Digital
Responsibility for conservation or the decision to choose not to, is a growing question, and rests mostly on the artist.
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Artists Remember Stay High 149, Graffiti Innovator and Artist
Known as a pioneering figure in graffiti writing with his memorable "Smoker" tag, a haloed stick figure cartoon, taken from 1960s TV show "The Saint," smoking a joint, Wayne Roberts, or Stay High 149, passed away on Monday.
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Art Rx: 2012 Northside Festival Edition
A guide to some of the best events, exhibitions and studios to see at this week's Northside Art Festival in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
Interview
Art, Life, Commercialism and Sexism in the New York School: Regina Bogat's Story
Painter Regina Bogat has been involved the New York art world since the 1950s. (I promised not to reveal her age.) She had her first solo exhibition in the city in 1956, at Terrain Gallery, and her most recent one, Stars, which features colorful, vigorously messy paintings of different variations on
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Vincent Gallo Stands Up the Whitney Biennial
Like a sad, jilted date, this year's recently closed Whitney Biennial was left without director, actor, musician and all-around creepster Vincent Gallo's promised film, entitled ironically Promises Written in Water. And apparently, Gallo didn't even call.
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Seeing Green for the First Time
Billy Sullivan is doing something magical with green. The number his recent paintings pull off with a grassy, mossy, lush hue make for a required trip to the Nicole Klagsbrun gallery.
Community
A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios from Oakland (California), NYC, San Francisco, Cambridge (UK) and Fremont (California).
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Out of Time: A Look Back at Cindy Sherman at MoMA
LOS ANGELES — Cindy Sherman has been plagued by that one-hit wonder malaise that strikes so many musicians who deliver delightfully wonderful first albums only to follow-up with disappointing sophomore efforts as their careers predictably fade away. They leave behind only memories of that one hit, t
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9 Artists to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios
I've compiled a list of nine artists I think deserve more attention as some of the rising stars of the Bushwick scene.
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The Subtle Disappointment of Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin has been a favorite of mine for some time now. His work helped to pioneer the 1960s California Light and Space movement, and it is often beautiful to experience in person. Having never seen his well-known window installation "1° 2° 3° 4°," which was originally installed at the Museum of
Opinion
Subway Maps of the Body
I stumbled across two on the fabulous Medical State of Mind tumblelog, told from the perspective of third year med student.
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The Ambition and Arrogance of Exploration
Recalling the age of the gentleman explorer in a place that still guards its worn relics, Mark Dion's Phantoms of the Clark Expedition is an examination of the ambitions of early 20th century expeditions, as well as their arrogance.