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Occupied With My Thoughts

Last Tuesday I made plans with a friend to visit Bluestockings, the bookstore on Allen Street in Manhattan, for the opening of OCCUPIED: Occupy Wall Street Art Show, featuring “Art and Culture from and for the 99%.”

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Getting Naked for Ai Weiwei [NSFW]

BEIJING — When Ai Weiwei's assistant, Beijing artist Zhao Zhao, was brought in for questioning recently, the supposed charges were simple: distribution of pornography. The image in question was "One Tiger, Eight Breasts," a shot of Ai with four young women, all of them naked. I first saw the photo i

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Re-Kitschifying a New Orleans Post-modern Icon (Prospect 2 Spotlight)

NEW ORLEANS — The Piazza d'Italia generally isn't high on many people's lists of Things To See And Do In New Orleans; in fact, I'd guess that most of the tourists who stumble across it do so while getting lost on their way to or from the nearby Harrah's casino or Hilton Riverfront. They probably no

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Boogieing Back to the 60s at Williamsburg 2nd Friday

Are the 60s still cool? Williamsburg says yes. This month’s 2nd Friday event convinced me that some things will never go out of style. For example, hot chocolate from Ella Cafe on a crisp November evening and the light sweet taste of cotton candy, thanks to the boutique and gallery Cotton Candy Mach

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Always Here, Always Queer and Art History Is Starting to Get Used To It

While at the landmark exhibition Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture at the Brooklyn Museum, I realized I had to start my review with a statement that will look simple and quite possibly stupid: Hide/Seek is more than David Wojnarowicz's "A Fire In My Belly."

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A Sculpture Show With Too Much Twin Peaks Not Enough Freaks

Sanford Biggers new exhibition, Cosmic Voodoo Circus, is currently on view at the Sculpture Center in Long Island City. Curated by Mary Ceruti, the executive director and chief curator of the institution, the exhibition is a polite — if not enigmatic — tableau. The work is visually striking, but sti

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Work of Art Recap: Hitting Da Streets, Tiger Penises

OMG guys, the artistes have arrived in Brooklyn. China Chow announces the challenge. They artists have to do street art! In Williamsburg! So hood. It’s a team challenge, too. Apparently art is the new Quidditch.

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Post-Raid OWS Pushes Back Stronger

The police raid on unsuspecting Occupy Wall Street protesters at Zuccotti Park early Tuesday morning was a disturbing sight. Cops in riot gear smashed tents, arrested groggy protesters from the park, confiscated possessions and books from the People's library (although we have confirmed that the mat

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Traveling the Visual Highway

Day trips beyond New York City for visual art can feel decadent, especially with all the spectacular shows we don’t have time to see. And although it might be a small hassle to get there, the Brant Foundation’s current solo show of David Altmejd is really worth every minute of the trip to Greenwich,

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Being Neither Here Nor There

Blue Curry is a Bahamian artist living and working in London. If his name doesn’t make you smile the materials in his artwork and his sense of irony certainly will. Curry is having his first US solo exhibition at the LES's Toomer Labzda Gallery this month.

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A Few Rounds in Philadelphia's Hard-Knuckle Art Scene

Smokin’ Joe Frazier, dead at 67, was a former heavyweight boxing champion and Olympic gold medalist of the world. He succumbed to liver cancer at his home in Philadelphia on November 7, 2011. What does Frazier have to do with art? Like Smokin’ Joe, Philadelphia artists embody their hard-knuckle home

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Convulse: Exploring the Healing Powers of Shaking

Perhaps from embarrassment or hitting a deep seated pain. A sensitive nerve that doesn’t like to be touched or exposed. Whatever the particular cause, its effect is a shutter that runs down the spine. A quivering sensation starting at the nape of the neck and rolling like a barbed ball of wire down