Art
Artists have been having informal apartment shows as long as anyone can remember but in the last few years there has been a growing trend in New York (particularly Brooklyn) of quirky apartment art exhibits that I hope continues to grow. Last night, I stopped by Julie Torres's apartment, you'll reme
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Arts Council England, a group within the English governmental Department of Art, Media and Sport, is an organization entirely devoted to funding the arts, performing, visual and literary. In total, the council currently funds 880 arts organizations and events. In September, “Britain’s coalition gove
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The Brooklyn Museum's catalog for their Fred Tomaselli exhibition is pretty mammoth for a show that only takes up three galleries. Still, the tome serves well as a way to expand on ideas presented in the exhibition and give a greater view of the artist's work than would otherwise be possible in the
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Fashion, as it so often does, just caught a rash from the art world. The color spreading through the cheeks of this season's clothes is none other than International Klein Blue (IKB), the same unique hue dreamed up by the proto-postmodernist bad boy Yves Klein in 1962. Now, IKB is on your mom's purs
Art
Obrist is strange. There, I said it. In an event that often felt like a coffee klatch at Obrist's house, the art world power broker known as Hans Ulrich Obrist — he’s #2 on Art Review’s Power 100 — had a book reading last Saturday at MoMA’s PS1 in Long Island City for his newest publication, Hans Ul
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The first offering of the Guggenheim's Youtube Play biennial kicked off with a lot of spectacle, not limited to a ladder-perch musical performance by Ok Go and a stage setting [http://hyperallergic.com/11332/guggenheim-play-biennial/] more suited to a television show than an art exhibition. From the
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Think the United States' image abroad could use some updating? Well, take it to your local Bronx Museum! The Bronx Museum of the Arts is at the head of a new US State Department program called smART Power [http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2010/10/149944.htm], an initiative to expand diplomatic art o
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Over the past week, I've been writing about art's environmental impact and how that factors in to perceived artistic quality. What the debate boils down to for me is the question of whether art is worth its cost of production, and how we analyze a piece of art's efficacy or value. When we talking ab
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Jim Herbert’s paintings of naked lovers are not for the feint of heart. At first glance, viewers might want to look away as though catching a glimpse of a couple kissing. And some people will totally avert their eyes from these intense canvases. At the opening for the recent show at the English Kill
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As soon as we heard [http://hyperallergic.com/11464/hell-yes-isa-genzken-new-museum/] that Isa Genzken’s “Rose” will replace Ugo Rondinone’s “Hell,Yes” (2001) on the exterior of the New Museum … we immediately thought Photoshop! Our little digital collage experiments suggest that fiction is often mo
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Picasso would have turned 129 today, if the polymath artist, sculptor and co-inventor of cubism hadn't died in 1973 at the age of 92. Born in 1881, the artist rapidly commenced almost a full century of being awesome. So today we will put this Jonathan Richman song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZW