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The New Old Logic of Abstraction
The great thing about the outgrowth of exhibitions showcasing and examining emerging contemporary abstract painting is that the novelty is starting to wear off.
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A Visit to an Overlooked Folk Art Cave of Crystals
MEMPHIS — Secreted in a cemetery in Memphis is a meditative work of 1930s folk art, a man-made cave created from five tons of quartz crystal and a unique process of turning concrete to wood.
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An Architecturally Significant NYC Building for Each Day of the Month
Want to get to know New York City architecture better, from its 18th century past to modular present? Each day of October a city building is being featured, with a tour to take you into its design and history.
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A New Site for Repurposing and Reselling Used Art Supplies
A new website and online bartering post facilitates the sale and trade of used art supplies.
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The Corporate Vampires of San Francisco
SAN FRANCISCO — Three-person performance art troupe Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. is exploring the intersection of corporate culture, vampiric legends, immigrant realities, and the tech community in their newest work.
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Performance Art, Present and Future
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — There's an amazing show about contemporary performance art, and it may be coming to an art venue near you. Having just left the H&R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, curator RoseLee Goldberg's exhibition Performance Now is like a touring indie rock band, minus
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Willie Cole's High Heel Fantasias
Finding beauty in the commonplace — some may even say banal — is one of artist Willie Cole’s strengths.
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Art Rx
This week, Vermeer's masterpiece "Girl with a Pearl Earring" is coming to New York! Also, Beat Nite in Bushwick, a talk on Iran's art world in the 1960s and '70s, an exhibition of photojournalism from the Vietnam War, and a film by Gregg Araki, a pioneer of the New Queer Cinema.
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Abstraction Like Fire at Gowanus Open Studios
One trend that stood out at Gowanus Open Studios was that of abstract paintings with the formal sensibility of fire. It's less about literal depictions of fire. It's more about swaths of color that glow like raging bonfires, lines that flicker like the tips of flames, chromatic intensity worthy of a
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Gowanus Grunge
Gowanus is a vibrant neighborhood filled with artists in every cubbyhole, and last weekend the neighborhood opened its studios to the public.
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Holding Up Selfies
Pittsburgh-based artist Francis Crisafio's ongoing project HOLDUP in the HOOD extends the definition of the selfie, bringing in a directorial component similar to the one seen in Oli Rodriguez's rendition. For more than a decade, Crisafio has been documenting an after-school arts program called FACE
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A Pop Artist Who's Never Conformed
SOMERVILLE, Mass. — Derek Boshier, who conflates the “pop” in Pop art with “pop” as in “pop in and out,” never has conformed to art world expectations.