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Matthew Barney’s most recent exhibition Djed opened at Gladstone Gallery on September 17. Like everything the artist tends to do, the sculptures on view are of epic proportion. The objects themselves are extremely minimal steel and graphite molded constructions that are half early Richard Serra and half alien crash
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In order to properly follow up on my experience with Creative Time’s social practice summit, and given my heretofore lack of involvement with #OccupyWallStreet protests, I was pretty much obligated to visit Creative Time’s Living As Form exhibition at the historic Essex Street Market. I mean, the ar
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Just over two weeks ago, a story about an excavated Banksy in Berlin ricocheted across the global media. Most of the coverage featured closely cropped smiley faced riot police and the name "Banksy" screamed in the media coverage. From the tone of the coverage and the emphasis on the discovery of a l
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News
Is the anything Olek won't crochet? Is anyone or thing safe from her maniacal need to cover things up? Another question we're pondering, do we like Bernard Rosenthal's "Alamo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alamo_(sculpture)]" (1967) better this way? Hmmm …
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LOS ANGELES — The stretch of Imperial Street which leads to Lot 613 is prefaced by a series of murals by street artist ROA. Feathered and furry creatures drawn in spray paint serve as handy guideposts to the warehouse venue, where, over the past weekend, the Fountain Art Fair hosted works by emergin
News
The City of Brotherly Love must love supersized objects because they now have a fourth large-scale art work by Pop art master Claes Oldenburg.
Books
Now in its sixth year, the New York Art Book Fair, which takes place at MoMA's hipper sister in Queens, PS1, from September 30 to October 2, features more than 200 exhibitors from Ireland to South Korea. Presented by Printed Matter, the fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, contempor
Interview
If you're near Columbia University, there's an art show that sounds worthwhile exploring and it's devoted to water. The Cathedral of St. John, which has long had an established art program, is tackling the topic of H2O in their current art show that features some major artists, including Jenny Holze
Opinion
This week … Warhol's Headline works, a 2003 interview with Sol LeWitt, Twitter paintings by Evan Roth, Kapoor & Isozaki partner for an inflatable concert hall, world's earliest Christian inscription is identified, Gagosian's Madison Ave shop closes, NY pics from 1974, color TV spots from the 1960s a
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The Arsenale and its Corderie (Rope Walk) compose the remainder of the curatorial effort of the Biennale’s director. It is the sprawling nasty sibling of the Padiglione Centrale, and is somewhat of a chore to tackle. The entire layout of the Arsenale this year feels disjointed. On a whole, I felt li
Interview
On the 14th day of Occupy Wall Street, the movement has seen its biggest turn out yet. in the midst of protesters conversing, eating, sleeping and going about their daily business, art and creativity was also thriving in the park. Young kids joined in making cardboard posters to add to the street co
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Editor's note: Our reporter Liza Eliano was on scene this afternoon in Zuccotti Park. She has been following the story for over a week and will be filing her report from today later tonight, but until then, she sent us these images of some of the artistic going ons as part of Occupy Wall Street.