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OWS Library Safe, According to NY Mayor's Office
Since this morning's raid of Zuccotti Park, where the Occupy Wall Street movement began, there have been questions about the state of the movement's symbolic 5,000+ book library.
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Cranbrook Museum of Art Re-Opens
BLOOMFIELD HILLS, MICHIGAN — In the middle of the lush suburban academic oasis of the 319-acre Cranbrook educational community sits the Cranbrook Museum of Art, which re-opened last Friday November 11 after a two-year $22 million expansion and renovation.
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A Few Rounds in Philadelphia's Hard-Knuckle Art Scene
Smokin’ Joe Frazier, dead at 67, was a former heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist of the world. He succumbed to liver cancer at his home in Philadelphia on November 7, 2011. What does Frazier have to do with art? Like Smokin’ Joe, Philadelphia artists embody their hard-knuckle home
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Artist Lawyers Up After Realizing Starbucks Swiped Her Style
Last Friday, artist Ophelia Chong had the kind of day most artist's dread. On that fateful day she was told by one of her students that Starbucks was using graphics that looked a great deal like hers that … well, judge for yourself.
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Convulse: Exploring the Healing Powers of Shaking
Perhaps from embarrassment or hitting a deep seated pain. A sensitive nerve that doesn’t like to be touched or exposed. Whatever the particular cause, its effect is a shutter that runs down the spine. A quivering sensation starting at the nape of the neck and rolling like a barbed ball of wire down
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Lester Johnson’s Last Paintings
Lester Johnson (1919 – 2010) remains a cult figure, particularly for those who care about painting, which, let’s face it, is a cult made up of warring factions. Johnson is a full-fledged member of the faction to which the terms “painterly,” “expressionist,” and “figurative” have accrued, but which a
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Exploring this Past Weekend's Celeste Prize and Brooklyn Open Studios
If ever there was an argument for me to get over my fear of biking in Brooklyn, it was Saturday's Brooklyn Open Studios, held in conjunction with the 2011 Celeste Prize exhibitions at the Invisible Dog. The 35 participating artists were sprawled across the borough, from Sunset Park to Bushwick and f
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A Week of Art Stories Mixel-ed
I've got the Mixel bug. Since I logged onto the image creating site, I've been enjoying the zany energy of this iPad-based collage system and all that it offers. I thought I'd have some fun and try creating collages based on some of the biggest art stories of the last week or so. Here's my Mixel-ed
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How Baby X Was Born
“Would you like to see the birth?” Elle Burchill from Microscope Gallery casually offered me a spot on the list of people who would be notified of the birth of Baby X. The night of the opening of the exhibition and performance The Birth of Baby X was pretty cold. Despite the media attention that fol
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An Art-fueled Rebuttal to the Tea Party
The project "Art Party" by Bob and Roberta Smith might have been planned in the past, yet it jabs a ramshackle kick straight into the miasma of current water cooler art talk.
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Required Reading
This week, how a Caravaggio becomes "discovered" and evaluated, Christo gets the green light for Colorado, artists who seek out their harshest critics, Terence Conran, erasing a Chris Martin, escaping the digital world, Occupy Miami art schools, street art in Iran and is politics performance art?
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Yvonne Rainer Disturbed by MOCA's "Degrading Methods of Fund Raising"
The final text and signatories of Yvonne Rainer's letter to Jeffrey Deitch/MOCA protesting Marina Abramović's performance for the MOCA gala is on the Artforum website [http://artforum.com/news/#news29378]. There are 50 signatures on the letter.