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Conserving the Digital
Responsibility for conservation or the decision to choose not to, is a growing question, and rests mostly on the artist.
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Art Rx: 2012 Northside Festival Edition
A guide to some of the best events, exhibitions and studios to see at this week's Northside Art Festival in Williamsburg and Greenpoint.
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Seeing Green for the First Time
Billy Sullivan is doing something magical with green. The number his recent paintings pull off with a grassy, mossy, lush hue make for a required trip to the Nicole Klagsbrun gallery.
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Out of Time: A Look Back at Cindy Sherman at MoMA
LOS ANGELES — Cindy Sherman has been plagued by that one-hit wonder malaise that strikes so many musicians who deliver delightfully wonderful first albums only to follow-up with disappointing sophomore efforts as their careers predictably fade away. They leave behind only memories of that one hit, t
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9 Artists to Watch from the 2012 Bushwick Open Studios
I've compiled a list of nine artists I think deserve more attention as some of the rising stars of the Bushwick scene.
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The Subtle Disappointment of Robert Irwin
Robert Irwin has been a favorite of mine for some time now. His work helped to pioneer the 1960s California Light and Space movement, and it is often beautiful to experience in person. Having never seen his well-known window installation "1° 2° 3° 4°," which was originally installed at the Museum of
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The Ambition and Arrogance of Exploration
Recalling the age of the gentleman explorer in a place that still guards its worn relics, Mark Dion's Phantoms of the Clark Expedition is an examination of the ambitions of early 20th century expeditions, as well as their arrogance.
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A Story of Love, Plants and Death
Based on Alejandro Zambra's masterful novella, the film Bonsái is a story of love, plants, death and the literature that seamlessly links them all. Bonsái premiered at Cannes to favorable reviews and took the top prize at the Miami Film Festival earlier this year. Directed by the Chilean Cristián Ji
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Political Pressure Censors Artwork And Creates Unexpected Spectacle
I feel naïve to have thought that art offered one of the only scared spaces to be freely expressive. Two weeks ago, I wrote a post that attempted to diplomatically depict the controversial saga that has unfolded over artist Brett Murray’s “The Spear”, a Communist propaganda style portrayal of South
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The Soulful Insolence of Sven Lukin
I have been a Sven Lukin fan since 1970, when I first saw "Untitled" (1969) in one of the concourses running under the Empire State Plaza in Albany. Made for, and located in, a long recessed area — and playfully hovering between flatness and volume, the pictorial and the sculptural — Lukin’s "Untitl
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Oh Sue, If Only I Could Love You More
Sue Coe has called the art world “a zipped-up body bag of what they call culture.” Thinking about the troubling and troubled work of this extravagantly gifted artist, I found myself circling back to that statement, which is from a 1996 profile written by Steven Heller for Eye Magazine.
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Social Media Popularity Contest: Cindy Sherman v Damien Hirst
At the moment of their retrospectives, which artist is more popular: Cindy Sherman, now at the MoMA, or Damien Hirst at Tate Modern? Let's see what social media has to say on the topic.