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The point of last night's Marlborough Gallery show, POWHIDA, is probably that there are too many douchebags in the world, especially the art world. The character named Powhida, entered a Chelsea street-level Chelsea gallery and acted the part of a blue-chip contemporary artist.
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Zhang Peili (张培力), frequently dubbed the father of Chinese video art, has a retrospective ongoing at Shanghai's Minsheng Art Museum (民生现代美术馆). Dubbed Certain Pleasures (确切的快感), the show extends over two floors and three main gallery spaces, showing Zhang's videos and high conceptual work.
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Brazil is one of the fastest growing economies of the “developing world.” In fact, so much so that it is now considered an “NIC” or newly industrialized country, a term used to describe being in between "developing" and reaching "fully developed" status. Today, Brazil is looking towards a future as
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Artist William Powhida has taken to Twitter for his latest project, “Everyone We’ve Never Met (from memory and imagination),” and he explains, "In another effort to broaden the project and to make the ideas of 'Everyone' mean more than Sheboygan and vacationers from Chicago in a way that I can still
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Rackstraw Downes doesn’t seem like a radical. He is an understated Englishman who paints understated American landscapes. But when you think about how much of modern and contemporary art relies on juxtaposition or exaggeration for effects, Downes’s approach begins to seem downright revolutionary. “M
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James Cohan Gallery’s most recent show Catch the Moon in the Water is an unexpected and thought provoking riff on the summer group show. The exhibition reflects on the work of young Chinese artists. The show’s title refers to the impossibility of capturing the moon from its reflection.
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Boston's Museum of Fine Art is asking visitors to donate so they can add the 42-foot-high, 10,000 pound, 2,400 piece "Lime Green Icicle Tower" sculpture that is a highlight of the current Dale Chihuly show.
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Few designers would be inspired when a fire nearly incinerates the archives containing their entire œuvre. But Helmut Lang, the Austrian-born designer who’s always been somewhat of an anomaly, didn’t waste the opportunity when his imagination was set ablaze.
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Thirty-five years after the release of The Ramones' debut album, a punk attitude has erupted on 23rd Street in the heart of Chelsea during the normally bleak and deserted summer gallery months with the Steven Kasher Gallery's "Rude and Reckless: Punk/Post-Punk Graphics, 1976-1982" and the I-20 Galle
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Art book lovers of the world will have something to look forward to in Manhattan this summer. Yesterday, Chelsea's David Zwirner Gallery open its second annual summer pop-up bookstore for a two week run — it closes Friday, August 5.
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This story brings a tear to my eye: "Supporters of the campaign to recall Michigan Gov Rick Snyder are reporting they collected more than 5,000 signatures during the Ann Arbor Art Fair."
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It's just a typical day at Xindanwei (新单位), a coworking space with a name that means "New Work Unit" in Chinese. Downstairs, Patrick Jost of vvvv.org is giving a talk … On the second floor, the EF Life Club are leading a workshop on self actualization through art, … On the roof is a meeting of marke