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At the Northside Arts Festival, the Art Is on the Streets
When going to the Northside Art Festival this weekend, remember that the art is not just in the galleries and open studios but some of the best art is on the streets of North Brooklyn.
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I Dreamt of Going to Space Camp
Tom Sachs’ Space Mission: Mars is a lot like Space Camp for adults. For me, Space Camp represents a forever unattainable dream of my childhood. I grew-up on the Space Coast in Florida, watching every shuttle launch, dreaming of going to Space Camp, but never being able to afford it. I have a feeling
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Too Many Paths Leading Every Which Way at Caribbean: Crossroads of the World
Spending all day being party-bused between the three museums — El Museo del Barrio, the Studio Museum in Harlem and the Queens Museum of Art — who are hosting the self-proclaimed landmark exhibition "Caribbean: Crossroads of the World," I was repeatedly told by the museum directors, curators and art
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Art Writers Forecast An Art Market Crash, Art Market Doesn't Care
With a Mark Rothko painting selling for nearly $87 million at Sotheby's in addition to record prices for artists from Edvard Munch to Roy Lichtenstein, it seems pretty strange to see a variety of art and business writers are predicting the end of the art market boom.
Interview
The Scaffolding Saints of the Lower East Side
Tom Sanford and Graham Preston's latest project, "Saints of the Lower East Side" (2012), remembers "when," or more precisely marches out some of the progressive history of an area that has been mostly reduced to cool tshirts from a bygone era.
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.
Art
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.
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A View from the Easel
CHICAGO — Artist studios from Oakland (California), NYC, San Francisco, Cambridge (UK) and Fremont (California).