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Public libraries are a beautiful idea and they're rather universally loved but recently some artists have been engaging with the very idea and exploring its potential to be truly accessible at all times.
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Ben Bunch’s new show, Twenty-First Century Freemasonry, is a riotous amalgamation of computer part entrails, circuit boards and wires in overclocked colors.
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CHICAGO — The fifth installment of a series in which artists send me a photo and a description of their workspace. Today we visit studios in Chicago, New York, Montreal, Arizona and Baltimore.
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This week we're sending you to a closing party in the Bronx, performance in Bushwick, a panel on Architectural criticism in the Village and the soon-to-be-opened 2012 Whitney Biennial on the Upper East Side. But don't get stressed, since you can cleanse it all away with a final visit to Doug Wheeler
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Handstand. That is just another of the items on the long list of the things Paul D’Agostino excels at doing. As a Bushwick resident since 2007, D’Agostino has actively worked to shape the art scene in the neighborhood through his countless activities. Bushwick-based nonprofit Norte Maar is currently
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JEDDAH, Saudi Arabia — Contemporary art is not the first thing you might think about whenever Saudi Arabia is mentioned. But if you decide to look beyond the veil of political media and stereotypes you will be quite surprised at what you might discover.
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The slogan “Silence=Death” remains one of the most recognizable images from the art produced during the AIDS crisis in America. Created by the activist art collective Gran Fury, it complemented a movement of creativity that held social change as its core. Now, over 30 years since the term “AIDS” was
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LOS ANGELES — It comes up in every conversation I have with art-and-technology types. "I have an app idea," a friend will say. But then comes the inevitable question: "Do you know any developers?"
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At the beginning of the 2012 Queens International, the fifth biennial of Queens artists to be staged by the Queens Museum of Art, you are asked to take a journey. The exhibit's subtitle, Three Points Make a Triangle, was inspired by the French surrealist René Daumal's unfinished 1944 work Le Mont An
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LOS ANGELES — The arts have a long tradition of apprenticeship and mentorship. Somewhere along the way, the expected career path of a professional artist turned into days in the classroom studying art theory and private time in a cramped studio, followed by huge student loan debts.
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In the 1990s, Fabian Marcaccio coined the word “paintant” by fusing “painting” and “mutant.” In his “paintants,” he would sometimes carve and expose the stretcher bars. He worked on burlap and fabric. He used photographic images and applied various mediums to digitally printed surfaces. His material
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Joyce Pensato draws in charcoal and paints in enamel — dense, clinging soot and viscous liquid. For years her palette has been black, white and silver, though color is beginning to make an appearance in her recent paintings, mostly as splatters and drips. The drawing process is one of making marks,