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Making Sense of a Biennial of "Makers"
NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial is the closest thing you’ll find to a crowd-sourced exhibition on view in New York right now — perhaps anywhere.
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A Coven of Art Convenes to Examine the Face of the Witch
Whether you imagine a witch as a monstrous Macbeth conjuror, or a more innocuous pointy-hatted character riding a broomstick, it's likely the visuals of art have something to do with it.
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Martin Scorsese Celebrates a New York Literary Institution
The 50 Year Argument, Martin Scorsese’s new documentary about The New York Review of Books, uses the same opening-sequence footage as another film about life in the Big Apple: West Side Story.
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ArtRx LA
This week is pretty performance heavy, with dance from the legendary Yvonne Rainer, an experimental performance at Pieterspace, and Doug Aitken's sign-spinning happening.
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A Tibetan Artist's Political Pop
HONG KONG — In his new show at Pearl Lam Galleries in Hong Kong, contemporary Tibetan artist Gonkar Gyatso uses traditional Tibetan landscape themes and iconography, but also tchotchkes, bricolage, cartoon bubbles, and stickies, all of which serve as cheery subterfuge for the dire messages he buries
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Rediscovering the Roots of Black Radical Brooklyn
The energetic, jumbled print design of funkgodjazz&medicine: Black Radical Brooklyn, an exhibition by Creative Time and the Weeksville Heritage Center, strikes a bright, funkedelic chord in the mind’s eye. This is jazz; this is the casting off of the master’s linguistic tools; this is a celebration
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ArtRx NYC
This week, 265 artists take part in Greenpoint Open Studios, there's an art world comedy being filmed in Williamsburg, Cy Twombly opens at the Morgan, Artists Space considers the intersection of art and books, and it's your last chance to see the Latin American art show at the Guggenheim. And, of co
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Expo Chicago 2014 Fails to Inspire
CHICAGO — The common consensus about Expo Chicago 2014 is that it was a success. One hundred and forty galleries from across the globe (more than in the previous two years of the art fair’s reincarnated existence) set up their stalls in the Navy Pier exhibition hall.
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Among the Zines at the NY Art Book Fair
The New York Art Book Fair is an open terrain, an annual zone that allows for a wide degree of experimentation. I especially wanted to take a thorough look at the zine tent this year, presented as XE(ROX) & PAPERS + SCISSORS, and spin in the blooming meadow like Julie Andrews.
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At the Guggenheim, Three Critical Takes on Latin America
Let's start by saying, just in case it's not obvious, that there's something nearly impossible about conceptualizing and mounting a show as wide in its thematic and geographic scope as Under the Same Sun: Art from Latin America Today, curated by Pablo León de la Barra.
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Marcel Duchamp Paints the Body Electric
PARIS — A nomadic but steady hand is clearly sensed in Marcel Duchamp's work. He is often an excellent painter. But it is also true that with Duchamp's legacy of conceptually anti-retinal art (and anti-art), there is something so pregnant with free-floating information that it electrifies and upsets
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How Selective Enforcement of Illegal Advertising Laws Punishes Creative Activism
The enforcement of city and state law pertaining to graffiti, advertising, and other signage has enormous power to visually shape public space.