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Here are some events you may want to check out this weekend or in the coming week, including a video art festival on Staten Is, unfinished films at Gladstone, Carolee Schneemann bookreading, dance series, Japanese art.
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Shirin Neshat’s new “Summer” film in her Seasons series, entitled "Before My Eyes" was posted on the New York Times website earlier this week. The intentions of the film are political, as is the nature of Neshat’s work. Neshat asks us to reflect on “[measuring] the rise and fall of our hopes in the
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Ai Weiwei assistant Duyan Pili broke the news that Ai's FAKE studio architect Liu Zhenggang and accountant Hu Mingfen have also been released from custody following the artist's release two days ago. Ai's cousin and driver Zhang Jinsong was released yesterday. Reporter Wen Tao is still detained, but
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On Wednesday, I was invited to Al Jazeera to give a context for Ai Weiwei's arrest and eventual release. I felt it was important to point out that the Chinese have been using contemporary art and architecture for years [http://www.brooklynrail.org/2008/09/artseen/is-contemporary-architecture-a-pr-pa
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Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has been released, as has his cousin Zhang Jinsong, but that doesn't mean the story is over. Ai's legal case is still open, China is still detaining and jailing dissidents and the Ai's freedom may just be political image clean-up for the government. What does the r
Opinion
This video is a spoof of artist statements. I certainly don't want people to think all artists are like this, but it's too good not to share. Enjoy.
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This year's Northside Open Studios (formerly Greenpoint Open Studios) benefited from the publicity associated with the major north Brooklyn art, film and music festival, but what it didn't have was the art world buzz that the Bushwick Open Studios enjoys after years of promotion. I personally think
Opinion
Jerry Saltz is like the art world's hip uncle. But is he getting too curmudgeonly to hang with the kids? In the critic's recent New York Magazine essay, Saltz calls young artists “Generation Blank” for being not original enough and too digestible by critics — cliche. Meanwhile, other art youth compa
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Around 5 hours ago, the news broke that Ai Weiwei's cousin and driver Zhang Jingson was to be released on bail, as the artist was yesterday. Zhang is now home and has lost 19 kg; Ai associate Duyan Pili notes that he'll have to lose his nickname of “Little Fatty.”
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Ai Weiwei may have just been freed, but four of his associates are still missing. Wen Tao, Liu Zhenggang, Zhang Jingsong, and Hu Mingfen were arrested along with Ai Weiwei and are presumably still in prison. Here is some information about them.
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The handmade second edition zine for the Presents: Three Months of Mail Art for Hyperallergic HQ exhibition is now available. For the second edition, the co-curators have swapped roles and Kate Wadkins designed the covers and insert, while Hrag Vartanian has created the inside pages.
Opinion
Khaled Jarrar is stamping the passports of tourists arriving at the West Bank with a voluntary entry stamp for Palestine. This isn't official practice or policy, though. The Palestinian artist is mounting his own form of political protest through a conceptual work of art, seen in a video by NTD TV.