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Manhattan Exhibition Pays Tribute to Teaching Artists
Airhead at PPOW Gallery explores alternative modes of learning within and beyond the classroom.
Anton van Dalen
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Anton van Dalen, Devoted Chronicler of New York’s East Village, Dies at 86
“[I] have always worked from the perspective of starting with home, then street, neighborhood, city, world,” the artist told Hyperallergic critic John Yau.
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Taking a Walk on the Lower East Side
Anton van Dalen represents a lesser acknowledged artist archetype: the non-heroic, civic-minded observer and chronicler.
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Anton van Dalen’s Valuable Lessons
Using simple means, often just pencil and paper, van Dalen has made careful, painstaking images of cyborgs, pigeons, and war machines.
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Strong Solo Booths, Leo Lookalikes, and Plenty of Trends at Frieze New York
From an increasingly diversified roster of galleries to a surprising slew of rock art, the mega-fair is impressively eclectic this year.
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Artist Anton van Dalen on the East Village, Saul Steinberg, and Pigeon Keeping
Next time you’re walking through the East Village, take a moment to look up at the skies over Tompkins Square Park. You might just spot Anton van Dalen’s flock of snow-white pigeons. The artist, who first learned to rear the birds at the age of twelve, is one of the few remaining pigeon keepers in L
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Painting Four Decades of Change in the East Village
New Works and the Avenue A Cut-Out Theatre, Anton van Dalen’s first solo show in eight years, charts the shifting landscape of New York City. Populated with imaginative characters, the artist’s latest work vividly documents the forces of gentrification and change.
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How the 2015 ADAA Art Fair Changed My Life
It didn't. I lied. I'm sorry. But I did like these things at the Art Dealers Association of America's (ADAA) art fair.