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Google Art Project Bursting at the Seams with 100+ New Museums
Google Art Project launched last year with 17 institutions but today the number has ballooned to 100+.
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Opinion
What the 60 Minutes Segment on the Art Market Really Said
We've refrained from reflecting on the 60 Minutes segment by Morley Safer about the art world market. But since others like Jerry Saltz and Roberta Smith have waded into the commentary cesspool we decided to give you a complete analysis of what was said on Sunday's program. Read carefully.
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Surveying Arts Residencies Today: Do They Still Matter? (Part 1)
LOS ANGELES — When I first moved to New York and began my career in the art world, I asked a number of successful artists for advice on my career. I had just begun showing in galleries and wanted to know their number one tip.
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Having Trouble Thinking Outside the White Box
MoMA’s latest thematic exhibition Print/Out aims to examine the ways printing has expanded and molded contemporary art practice. Is it successful?
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Williamsburg Gets an Art Fair in May
One art fair that up until now has so far been a Miami-only venture, Seven, will be coming to Williamsburg.
Opinion
The Ordinary Adventures of an Extraordinary Batman
LOS ANGELES — The appeal of Batman has always been that he's a regular old human being. This is why artist Sara Johnson's Ordinary Batman Adventures are so delightful.
Opinion
When Advertising Follows Art
Sometimes advertising follows art, and this is one of those times. Presenting Doug Aitkens' "Migration" (2008) and a very recent commercial for Residence Inn (2012).
Opinion
The Corporate Sponsorship of Baby X
Yesterday, Bushwick artist Marni Kotak emailed a video of her baby, Baby X (aka Ajax), and the announcement that he has a new corporate sponsorship tattoo.
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The Avant/Garde Diaries invites you to Transmission LA: AV Club Curated by Mike D
The Avant/Garde Diaries [http://engine.nectarads.com/redirect/0/9990/10800/0/00000000000000000000000000000000/0/0/15964/0] is a digital portrait magazine that invites leading creatives to talk about the cutting edge of art, design, fashion, music and film. On April 20 - May 6th, 2012 The Avant Garde
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The Guerrilla Girls Get Nostalgic
While a crowd of roughly 150 people sat and chatted in the Brooklyn Museum’s auditorium last Thursday night, waiting for the appearance of the Guerrilla Girls, Christina Aguilera played over the sound system. “What a girl wants, what a girl needs,” she sang — lines and a melody that came as somethin
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Occupying Poetry With a People’s Anthology
The Occupy Wall Street Poetry Anthology is over a thousand pages long. It includes poems by Adrienne Rich, Anne Waldman, and Allen Ginsberg, and by thousands of lesser- and unknown writers from around the world. The work is in multiple languages. And it’s coming to a library near you.
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Book Spurning: The People's Library at OWS
When the NYPD — invasion-clad and riot-tooled — swiftly and forcibly dislodged protestors of the Occupy Wall Street Movement from their stronghold in Zuccotti Park on November 15 last year, they mangled and destroyed, among other things, the so-called “people’s” library, an impressive collection of