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I teach drawing, and I often have people tell me that they can’t draw, that they couldn’t even draw a stick figure. And so I ask them how they know that. And they say, “Yeah, I tried it and it looked like crap.” The truth of the matter is that art is not so much the way things look, but a way of loo
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For those who love the vibrant art scene of Bushwick and its younger sister in Queens, Ridgewood, it is a good time to venture through the area's galleries to see a wide range of work that is sure to inspire and provoke conversation. These are seven shows that are worth a look.
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Celebrating what would be (if he was not in fact a mortal and evolved human) Charle's Darwin's 204th birthday, today's Darwin Day is an international extravaganza with events around the world. If you're not lucky enough to be near a party serving primordial soup (a recipe with open interpretation ba
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The doctor has a very specific prescription for you this week: openings! And don't worry — she's got a little something for you romantics, too.
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If you’re interested in John Ashbery—and why wouldn’t you be?—you probably read the profile on him that was recently published in the New York Observer. The best part, the part that had the most to say about his poetry, came about a third of the way into it, with the writer, Michael H. Miller, descr
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The small selection of paintings and drawings currently at Edward Thorp Gallery serves as an introduction to Henri Michaux (1899 – 1984), one of the most original artists and writers of the 20th century. There are writers who made art — e.e. cummings, D.H. Lawrence and Henry Miller come to mind — bu
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It was 2005. I had gone to an opening of works by Sarah Plimpton at the June Kelly Gallery [http://junekellygallery.com/] on Mercer Street. Around me on the walls was art I could only address in a frame of mind rare here in the bustle and buzz of NewYork. Around us, on the walls, were great shapes,
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You could look at Environmental Service’s exhibition, What is Yours is Mine, as a maximalist spin on Robert Rauschenberg’s “Erased de Kooning Drawing” (1953). But you’d be wrong.
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Stock photography is a rapidly growing, global industry — and thanks to mass proliferation on the internet, a billion-dollar one, too. But let’s not kid ourselves: we look down on these hypercommercial images and consider them akin to junk food: cheap, ubiquitous, and easily digestible.
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If you don't know what the term "nerdcore" entails, I don't encourage you to find out. Suffice it to say that two nerdcore rappers bookended the Second Annual New York Videogame Critics Circle Awards held at NYU Polytechnic earlier this week, first, a gentleman by the name of Darklord Schaefer and t
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Isha is a cinematic work-in-progress both literally and figuratively. Recently a 15-minute screening, as well as actual location shoot happened back-to-back at Long Island City’s Clocktower Gallery as part of the ongoing How Much Do I Owe You? exhibition. It’s a ballsey attempt by Indian writer/dire
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When the little-known artist Richard Pagán died in 1989, he was at the precipice of a promising artistic career. Pagán had just recently become the first Puerto Rican to win the Pollock-Krasner Foundation's Jackson Pollock Award for his large expressionist canvases, and his circle of friends include