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From Calder to Kruger, the New Whitney Museum's First Show
The inaugural exhibition at the new Whitney Museum is not perfect, but it is pretty damn good.
David Hammons
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A History Waiting To Be Written: Ed Clark’s High-Spirited, Abstract Paintings
David Hammons’ thoughtful curation of the exhibition, 'Ed Clark: Big Bang', currently at the Tilton Gallery helps establish a much needed context for an important artist of the New York School, who, now in his late 80s, continues to make boldly exuberant paintings.
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The Fantastic and Revelatory Story of Art and Black LA
On first glance, some may wonder why MoMA PS1, a New York contemporary art museum, has just opened a historical exhibition of art from Los Angeles. But as MoMA PS1 curator Peter Eleey explained at the press preview last week, the show in question, Now Dig This! Art and Black Los Angeles 1960–1980, a
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Why Are We Revisiting the Times Square Show?
Thirty-two years after being labeled the "first radical art show of the '80s," the Times Square Show, a raucous and revolutionary DIY art exhibition held in an abandoned massage parlor on 41st Street and Seventh Avenue in the old dirty and devastated Times Square, has been revived by the Hunter Coll
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Commemorating the Blizzard's Aftermath...
New York City was originally a colony of the Dutch, so maybe it's no coincidence that the aftermath of Sunday and Monday's storm put me in mind of some Netherland Baroque landscapes. Here's Hendrick Avercamp's 1608 “Winter Landscape with Iceskaters”. Click through for some more of my favorite winter