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The vibes being sent up North from Miami to the now-snowy climes of New York City over the past week have carried with them a message: the contemporary art market may just be back into something like its previous swing. Gleaned from tweets, news pieces written from flashy parties and a newfound sens
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Two activists were detained by police on Saturday at the National Portrait Gallery after showing David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" on an iPad inside the museum. Both activists were ejected and subsequently banned for life from any Smithsonian Institution facility. D.C. residents Mike Blasens
Opinion
Sure they love the money, but not all Miamians are kumbaya about the alien spacecraft that is the art fairs and its annual landing in South Beach. The Miami New Times has a hilarious list of why they are glad the fairs are over [http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/riptide/2010/12/50_reasons_were_glad_art
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Remember that little contest we had back in October to determine which design would be chosen for Hyperallergic's very first t-shirt? Well, Duncan Alexander's “T-shirts are the new galleries” took first prize, and now it's for sale [http://hyperallergic.bigcartel.com/product/tshirts-are-the-new-gall
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An exhibition of LA-educated artists Brody Condon and Jen Liu at Lower East Side gallery On Stellar Rays showcases two different methods of abstraction. Beyond abstracting painting to an ever-flatter surface, artists use their work to flatten visual and symbolic content as well. In the work of Condo
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SCOPE is the art fair that many people like to disparage but this year's installment was quite good and worth a trip. Housed in a large tent near the Art Miami and Red Dot art fairs and, as always, attached to Art Asia, the greater prominence ensured more foot traffic than last year (two gallerists
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Tired of all the chatter [http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/bathrobe-brigade-its-art-basel-vs-cool-kids-nada-grows] about Nada being the next big thing, I decided to see if this year's display would be everything the PR and press promised it would be. Honestly, it was. Even if the solo artist boo
Opinion
Last night's party at the Fountain art fair [http://www.fountainexhibit.com/calendar.html] started off great with a rum bar and tacos that you could garnish which freshly picked mint and cilantro, but soon before midnight it devolved into an art auction where descending bids allowed the buyer — and
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Lindsay Pollock has a report [http://lindsaypollock.com/news/bloomberg-picassos-rothkos-signal-return-of-top-sellers-as-vips-cruise-miami-basel/] from this year's Art Basel Miami Beach that gives us some insight into the state of the art market: > Sales echoed what the recent New York auctions had
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If Seven art fair has been getting some buzz because of their "original" approach to bypassing the art fair system and creating their own art fair of sorts, then you should know that Fountain Art Fair was the originator of the out-of-the-box approach to the art fair. Begun by three galleries, McCaig
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About 150 protesters assembled at in the brisk cold outside Transformer's gallery space before marching to the National Portrait Gallery in Chinatown. That's not a small number: More than 100 people standing up for the memory of David Wojnarowicz and the sanctity of the museum as a space free from p
Opinion
On a recent RT America segment [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=io4ydriHDUU], a Catholic League spokesperson is calling David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire in My Belly" video anti-Christian and compares ants on Jesus to "putting a swastika on a synagogue." The video was part of the Smithsonian's Hide/Seek ex