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Speechless is a new and evolving series that will review, discuss and comment on art works and exhibitions using images, screenshots, videos and other visuals. Our inaugural edition explores David Deutsch's Nothing Real at Southfirst.
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Entirely new work was made for New Monuments. “Artists were selected for the show, not specific works,” says show-organizer and participating artist Ben Godward, who basically commissioned the other four participants. They all have deep ties to the Bushwick art scene, and are all transplants from th
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The recent Cariou v Prince District Court decision has brought to the fore, once and for all, the elephant in the art world and courtroom, Fair Use, which had, until now, managed to avoid close scrutiny in the popular press.
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Nadia Plesner is relieved that a court in The Hague has thrown out a copyright infringement lawsuit that was brought against her (again) by luxury brand Louis Vuitton. Eyeteeth has the story [http://eyeteeth.blogspot.com/2011/05/hague-rules-against-louis-vuitton-in.html] and the artist's reaction [h
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Today's rain may have put a damper on the unveiling of Ai Weiwei's “Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads” (2009) at the Pulitzer Fountain, located at Central Park South and Fifth Avenue, but what certainly cast a pall over the event was the artist's own absence. After over a month since his arrest by the
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The latest contribution to the Mail Art Bulletin comes from A Trail of Bread Crumbs, which I know as a tumblelog. Getting to know someone through an online publication is a strange thing. Even if there are moments of revelation about the person behind the posts, there is a distance that you can neve
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Artist Patrick Smith's Windosill, a Flash-based video game that's playable in your internet browser, is a fascinating work both for its slow, subtle game play and its visual inspirations, namely proto-Surrealist Giorgio de Chirico's empty landscapes and Philip Guston's still-life paintings.
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The Clyfford Still Museum, now set to open Nov. 18 in Denver, says it will house 94% of the artist’s total creative output.less than a minute ago [https://twitter.com/#!/knightlat/status/65514717040484352] via web [http://si0.twimg.com/images/dev/cms/intents/icons/favorite.png] Favorite [http://twit
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Following major funding and staff cuts this past February, New York City's Seaport Museum closed its Bowne & Company Stationers, a well-known and well-liked working printing studio as well as a documentary exhibit of historical printing processes. Now, efforts are underway to reopen the studio.
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It is perhaps telling that the first piece in the exhibition Glenn Ligon: AMERICA, the most comprehensive exhibition of the artist's work to date, is not one of the text-based paintings for which he is best known, but “Hands” (1996), a massive canvas tacked to the wall of the exhibition’s entrance w
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Every wondered what the story was behind those bronze sculptures populating the 8th Ave/14th St ACE subway station? In this video, their creator, Tom Otterness, explains that he took the imagery for the sculptures from Gilded Age political cartoons. Too bad the artist is currently in some political