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If you weren't paranoid about the holidays before Thanksgiving, now they're really coming up. Hanukkah and Christmas and everything else are JUST around the corner in December, and then New Years! OMG! So what are you picking up your loved ones this year? Being artsy as you all are, you probably wan
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Man Bartlett's "Kin" during the last day of #TheSocialGraph [../thesocialgraph] exhibition. We will have a photo essay tomorrow and there are a few more podcasts on the way, but last Saturday we threw a closing party for the show, which featured livestreaming of Man Bartlett's "#24hKith [http://manb
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Kenny Scharf, druggy painter of 80s fame, has covered a Bowery wall with his psychedelic blobs. This isn't just any wall, though. Previously curated by Deitch Gallery, now The Hole NYC, this wall originally played host a Keith Haring mural and has recently been the site of Shepard Fairey, Os Gemeos,
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LA art worlders were quick to jump on the New Yorker's recent profile [http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2010/12/06/101206fa_fact_bruck] of multi-billionaire art collector and philanthropist Eli Broad. LATimes art critic Christopher Knight tweeted this article [http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/cultu
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Christian Marclay's video piece “The Clock,” shown at London's White Cube gallery [http://www.whitecube.com/exhibitions/cm/] last month, was the runaway hit of the Frieze art fair hullabaloo. From buzz on the blogs to rave reviews in print, Marclay's piece sounded like a must-see. Now it's hitting o
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The Museum of Modern Art's exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century purports to display “the radical transformation of the medium of drawing throughout the twentieth century,” but what the genre retrospective really does is to narrow the definition of “drawing” considerably, limitin
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France's Libération newspaper is reporting that the former electrician of Pablo Picasso claims to have hundreds of works by the modern master from his most important periods (1900-1931). See a slideshow of works here [http://next.liberation.fr/arts/11011160-picasso-un-tresor-redecouvert]. But the BB
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"The only way to stop the city’s blatant and illegal activity is by going for the pocketbook.” — 3x arrested Brooklyn artist Ellis Gallagher for drawing on the sidewalk with chalk [Gothamist [http://gothamist.com/2010/11/26/chalk_artist.php] via Brooklyn Paper [http://www.brooklynpaper.com/stories/3
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WATCH LIVE NOW at manbartlett.com/kithandkin [http://manbartlett.com/kithandkin/] This performance was created as part of his participation in #TheSocialGraph [http://hyperallergic.com/thesocialgraph] and his residency at Hyperallergic HQ [http://foursquare.com/venue/135446] in Williamsburg, Brookly
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Dan Koeck's image above was one of the finalists in last year's Picture Black Friday competition. This year the organizers welcome new submissions on the impact on consumerism. The website explains that the contest is "an open call for photographers throughout the US to go out and produce images tha
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You know you're going to spend money this holiday season even if it's only a gift or two for friends, family or that special someone. So, why not spending money in a way that supports emerging galleries, craftspeople, artists, charities, or quality small businesses that are trying to do something di
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Think contemporary art's going mainstream? It doesn't end with Louis Vuitton bags and album covers. Joining the cartoon figures and name-brand mascots at Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade were superstar contemporary artist Takashi Murakami's signature surreal characters, KaiKai and KiKi, two anime crit