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Situ Studio's reOrder, a new project under construction at the Brooklyn Museum, looks like Alice in Wonderland, wandering among surreal spaces not quite of this world. The folding cloth and underlying structure of hoop skirts actually provided inspiration for the installation, Situ Studio partner Br
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Please join Melissa Gira Grant & Joanne McNeil for an evening of personal stories about the Internet of long ago. The years of BBS, IRC, ICQ, MUDs, Mosaic, Usenet, Fidonet, Telnet, dot matrix printers, 28.8k modems, and saving those AOL startup disks until they broke in two. Special guests: Katie Ba
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In organizing Greenpoint Open Studios, I was introduced to some 160 amazing artists producing a variety of works in their studios. Painters, photographers, sculptors, video artists and performers are all sprinkled around the neighborhood, but one collective whose studios I was most charmed by is Fow
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The standard cliché summary of modern (and contemporary) art is that now, anything is art. Jackson Pollock threw paint around. Duchamp strung up a shovel, upended a bike wheel into a stool, put a urinal on a pedestal and called the resulting three “sculptures” art of the highest order. After so long
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Following up on Merel van Beeren's investigation into the future of Merce Cunningham's Studio after its founder's death, we bring you a graphic history of the intersection of visual art and modern dance. From Cunningham collaborating with John Cage, his life partner, and Robert Rauschenberg, to scul
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A small group of dance students recently gathered on the floor of the Cunningham Studio to try to save their dance program from an early death. “There's no way the studio won't make it,” Suzanne Thomas, a French student, said. She is passionate about preserving it for a reason: “Pure Cunningham does
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Ridykeulous, founded by artists Nicole Eisenman and A.L. Steiner in 2005, describes itself as an effort to “subvert, sabotage, and overturn the language commonly used to define feminist and lesbian art,” primarily through exhibitions, performances, and zines. Attacking the marginalization of queer a
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Amman, Jordan — The decision to leave Egypt wasn't easy on me, but I was out of options. Feeling alone, broke, beaten up, and lonely in a country I can't predict anymore made me feel uncertain about the future. This revolution has been a life-altering event to each one of the people witnessing it, a
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In another giant leap for art online, Google has released Art Project, a collaboration with a group of 17 international art museums, including New York's own Metropolitan and Museum of Modern Art, to put their collections online. But this isn't just a rehash of some online slideshow. Museums partici
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Cairo — I won’t lie to you. I was scared yesterday. I got in a fight with a group of passersby in one of the poorest neighborhood in Cairo. The people thought I was reporting for Al-Jazeera, the Qatari-based news channel that has been the target of major government propaganda over the last few days.
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Despite Wednesday night’s snow storm, tough cookies crowded the Austrian Cultural Forum to near capacity for Alpine Desire’s opening reception. The wine was gone by 7pm but people stayed. Examining mountain imagery in contemporary art, as well as a few earlier modernist and romanticist paintings, th
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Cairo — As I write this story, I am in my room overlooking the main square of Cairo, ironically called Tahrir Square, which means Liberty in Arabic. The square is buzzing with what news agencies estimate is as much as half a million protesters, chanting together. People want to overthrow the preside