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Fight Returns to New York as Locked Out Art Handlers Continue Protest Against Sotheby's
Last week, Sotheby's art handlers took their fight to London but today they're back in New York and manning the picket lines on York Avenue.
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Art For the Weekend: Newark Open Doors Studio Tour Preview
Newark is getting ready to blow up this week. The city’s Open Doors Studio Tour, which is celebrating its 10th anniversary, kicks off Thursday night with a sneak preview of the exhibition Call & Response at 570 Broad Street. The four-day festival features more than 300 artists. Events include group
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Largest Urban Art Festival in the Southern Hemisphere Open Nov 4
Other than having a name that sounds like it could be a gay bar in a seedy part of town, Sydney's Cockatoo Island is going to be hosting the largest urban art festival in the southern hemisphere starting November 4 and continuing until to December 11.
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Modeling the Post-Gender Body
Yesterday, top model Andrej Pejic met the Queen of England wearing a pencil skirt. Why is that a statement worthy of reporting, you ask? Because hiding underneath that pencil skirt was a piece of male anatomy.
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Anthony Goicolea's Slowly Approaching Apocalypse
The vibe of Anthony Goicolea’s first traveling museum solo show is a slow melancholy. Looking at the photos, videos, paintings and installation in Alter-Ego: A Decade of Work by Anthony Goicolea at the Telfair Museum in Savannah, Georgia made me sink slowly into thoughts of living with apocalypse. G
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Occupy Vancouver Goes for the Art Cred
New Yorkers are camping out in the financial district, Los Angelenos are pitching tents near City Hall and Bostonians are in the weird zone between Beacon Hill and government buildings called Dewey Square, but leave it to the West Coast Canucks to show the rest of the world how to do it.
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Messing With Your Senses With “Phenomenal” Light in California
SAN DIEGO — One of the most anticipated shows of Pacific Standard Time — the Getty’s epic initiative to “celebrate the birth of the LA art scene” and demonstrate that art history has also been made outside of New York — is the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego’s Phenomenal: California Light, Spac
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A Zine Archive 30 Years Later Is Still Punk As Fuck
To my pleasant surprise this weekend, while going about my business I was stopped by several New Yorkers, from various walks of life, all advertising information about the Occupy Wall Street protests. Occupy Wall Street seem to be on the top of everyone’s mind these days or at least the tips of thei
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Yet Another Van Gogh Theory: Suicide or Murder
Maybe people are watching too much Law & Order, but the obsession with Vincent van Gogh and his ear, relationship with Paul Gauguin and tortured life are getting a little too much. Now, the latest theory … he was shot by teenage boys from Paris pretending to be American cowboys.
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More Art in Odd Places
My weekday exploration of Art in Odd Places had required a careful eye for small acts of ritual, the theme of the 2011 edition of the annual art event that takes place along 14th Street and in Union Square. Two Saturdays ago the art was impossible to miss, even if it was still in unexpected places.
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Required Reading
This week is a grab bag of reviews, video clips, profiles and historic finds.
Art
Could Activism Be Art?
What is the connection between art and social change? I’ve pondered this question for many years. Art is a deed staged not to accomplish a social or political goal but as an end in itself. Yes, an act could be art, but what about activism?