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The next morning I took the T (aka, the trolley) into the city, and walked across the bridge to The Warhol. I love The Warhol. (Hate the NO PHOTOS policy though.) It never lets me down. Feels a bit like Mecca to me. Even when I know what's on, I always come across surprises. The first one greeted me
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On April 29, 1974, the prog rock masters King Crimson played a famously furious gig at the Stanley Warner theatre in Pittsburgh, later immortalized as part of the band's towering 4-disc live set, The Great Deceiver. In 1974, the steel industry was wheezing its way out of town, and the city was caree
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The Front Room gallery in Williamsburg can be easy to miss if you aren’t looking, though the current show, a selection of images from photographer Sasha Bezzubov’s latest series Wildfire, is certainly worth seeking out. The work documents ravaged landscapes on the West Coast following devastating wi
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Greg Cook is proud to be a yokel. As an art critic for The Boston Phoenix weekly, an independent blogger and artist, Greg is a staunch fan and supporter of the Boston contemporary art community. What bugs him about this city’s art scene is that he might have a better opinion of the scene than it doe
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We were recently deleting our hard drives from the aughts in an effort to upload everything into the cloud and we found these gems among the files. We almost forgot these things happened ... oh wait, did they? Who remembers.
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It's obvious that Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown don't like to sit around waiting for things to happen, which may explain why they have become cornerstones in Bushwick, Brooklyn's art scene. Andrew is the driving force behind Norte Maar, an apartment cultural space on Wyckoff Avenue that has played
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One of the most important social, political, and artistic concerns facing us today is the question of access: our ability to share media, our ability to take ownership of or simply to view films, music, and other forms of art. In the past, non-digital and only finitely reproducible media created a c
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Since learning of Shaquille O’Neal’s curating gig with Flag Art Foundation, among other dubious projects announced last year, I have found myself returning to Eva Diaz’s piece "Whither Curatorial Studies?" from last February, in which she weighed the teachings of curatorial degree programs against t
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It's been a hell of a decade and the aughts have come to a close. We asked people to chime in about what they loved and hated about the last ten years, including, Karen Wilkin, Johanna Fassl, Ruba Katrib, Gary Panter, William Powhida, Barry Hoggard & James Wagner, Lyra Kilston, and Will Heath.
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Performance artist Man Bartlett is tired, has blood shot eyes and he's doing something very American, shopping. His mission is to spend 24 hours in Union Square's Best Buy megastore without buying anything. His biggest obstacles are sleep, security and the urge to buy shit. Will he make it?
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The mandala, one of Himalayan Buddhism's most ubiquitous symbols, is created as an artistic aid for meditation but there may be other motivations as to why Tibetan art doesn't get the attention it deserves, namely China.
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If you take art too seriously then this show isn't for you but if you like pleasure maybe you should head to the new Bowery and bring a cone.