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This short video starring street artist Gaia creating a giant mural on the side of the Rag & Bone store on Houston and Elizabeth streets in Soho last week combines three of my favorite things: paintings by Pieter Breugel, time lapse photography, and giant roosters.
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Now showing at Pavel Zoubok Gallery in Chelsea, Mark Wagner uses collaged United States dollar bills as his signature medium. He meticulously dissects and reconstitutes the ubiquitous note into highly detailed sketch-like drawings. Full of filigree and ornamentation, his images tinker with the inner
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There's Communism in the air here in Beijing! With the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party having just passed (per official accounts, the Party was founded July 1, 1921), China is in the midst of a country-wide celebration—and one that presents the perfect opportunity to
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The Atlantic Yards project in Brooklyn is looking to the Brooklyn Academy of Music to serve as its cultural consultant - and not everyone is happy about that.
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Visiting the Barnes Foundation was always high on my list of things to do during my next visit to Philadelphia. Unfortunately, I still haven't managed to make it to Philadelphia. Good thing the New York Times has stepped up to make a visit to the Barnes easier than ever, at least virtually.
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Artists who live and make work in regions that have little to no art infrastructure often have the freedom to be creative, experimental and reactive without the boundaries that accompany exhibiting work in formal spaces. But there's also a significant divide between achieving a sustainable art caree
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Discussion of Ryan Trecartin's [http://www.elizabethdeegallery.com/artists/view/ryan-trecartin] work usually brims with a recurring set of buzz words: nonlinear, hyperactive, cut-up, frenetic. Any Ever [http://ps1.org/exhibitions/view/323], the Los Angeles-based artist's latest exhibition at MoMA PS
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New York, I feel your pain. You’re hemorrhaging under the weight of your artistic success and accomplishments, bleeding out talent like Jackson Pollock after the car crash. I know it’s hard to keep all your children around while the rents keep rising and the scene gets hyped into the next century wh
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Pity the poor parents who want to introduce their tots to the work of a contemporary artist like Takashi Murakami. Sure, all those laughing daisies and dancing bears are adorable, but how do you explain to Junior on a Saturday afternoon trip to the museum why that lady's breasts are so big [http://w
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After all the serious back-and-forth [http://hyperallergic.com/28788/missing-the-point-about-twitter-art/] debate [http://www.artfagcity.com/2011/07/09/missing-the-point-about-dont-follow-twitter-art/] about social media-based art [http://hyperallergic.com/29082/the-way-forward-for-social-media-art/
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Artist Jules de Balincourt has achieved considerable recognition in the last six years since his inclusion in Greater New York at PS 1 in 2005. I love that he's still involved in his community, and his selection of artists for his Itinerant Ones show at the Storefront in Bushwick seemed like a kind
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My latest thoughts on the evolving discussion about the use of social media in art and where it should (in my opinion) go.