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When I walked into Team Gallery this week to see their current exhibition, Cory Arcangel vs. Pierre Bismuth my gut reaction was annoyance. The exhibition presents three works by each artist. Though Arcangel's rise to fame has come somewhat immediately and unexpectedly, as a kind of young hip digital
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I pass Vito Acconci on the way to the subway perhaps two to three times a week at random times. I know his studio is in my neighborhood, but I haven’t figured out his route or his schedule. Not that I’ve made an effort to follow him as that would feel like copying his performance.
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MANILA, Philippines — For years now, artists and designers have had blogs and social media to give the general public access to their studios and lives. But what if you could peek into artists' very thought processes? What if you could see their sketches evolve day by day, before they're actualized
Opinion
From the desk of the always brilliant Grant Snider is this clever take on the starchitect.
Opinion
Some cities have clocks, lights that will tell you if it's raining or LED screens that tell you the temperature outside, but this project by artists Julius von Bismarck, Benjamin Maus and Richard Wilhelmer may be the first to tell people the mood of a city.
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Attending transgender singer, songwriter and performance artist Mx Justin Vivian Bond's exhibition, The Fall of the House of Whimsy at Participant Inc., I left feeling horribly conflicted, so conflicted that it took me a few weeks to even approach the topic in writing. Even though I originally felt
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MANILA, Philippines — The film opens casually enough. Children wearing Halloween masks float, or roll, backwards. As we pay attention to the surroundings, we realize we are following the children through the poorest conditions, which shoot past us. Over time, we realize we are on railway tracks, and
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If you have not yet bought a small gift for the tasteless millionaire in your life, I recommend visiting H. Maxwell Fisher's Underground Toy Emporium & Spaceship Parking at Jim Kempner Fine Art. The "emporium" imagined by Randy Regier is an exhibit of the type of cheap toys in flattened colors from
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Yesterday, performance artist Amber Hawk Swanson began her latest performance that was to feature the transformation of a life-sized sex doll of her likeness into a small replica of a bull orca at SeaWorld Orlando. Sure, the performance may sound out of the ordinary for veterans of the "there's noth
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Oh, postmodernism. You are history now. This fall, architect Michael Graves classic 1982 Portland building was added to the US National Register of Historic Places.
Opinion
People often comment on how people and their pets lookalike but usually they're not talking about fish. In his Evolution series, photographer Ted Sabarese captures carefully composed images of people with the fish they resemble — no, they're not pets. Even though the concept sounds peculiar the resu
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MANILA, Philippines — Over the past few months, I’ve watched with envy as stunning museum shows have gone up in my old haunts in Los Angeles and New York. Thankfully, in recent months three museums have released exhibition-related apps for the iPad and iPhone. To see how they stack up, I reviewed th