For decades, the Park Avenue Armory was home largely to order and restraint, serving as the headquarters of the 7th Regiment of the New York Militia. It is now bursting with mayhem.
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An Artist Who Possessed a Third Eye
Working in painting, drawing, assemblage, film, photography, photograms, performance, collage, and printmaking, Bruce Conner (1933–2008) made more discrete bodies of work across more mediums than any other postwar artist.
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Square Deal: Anselm Berrigan’s ‘Come In Alone’
The formal inventiveness of this new volume by Anselm Berrigan is satisfying and maddening.
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The Strange Allure of Craigslist Mirrors
Everyone knows Craigslist is rife with the weird and the wild, but since 2013, Brooklyn-based artist Eric Oglander has been combing the online marketplace for one quotidian object: the mirror.
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New Online Museum Gathers All of Prince’s Websites in 1 Place
What if, instead of being a hellhole filled with trolls and bad news, the internet offered “the definitive place of gathering 4 all who love life, love God, lovesexy … a new collective mindstate of unity, love and truth so great every human will want 2 join?”
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From a Missing Woman to an Overpowering Odor, Adventures from London’s First Art Night
LONDON — “Have you seen Betty? She has big boobs! She has disappeared!”
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“A Man Was Lynched by Police Yesterday” Flag Goes Up in New York City
This week, we’ve witnessed another onslaught of senseless killings of Black people by police in the United States.
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Looking for Love on Wydr, the “Tinder for Buying Art”
I wasn’t looking for a real relationship with a work of art.
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Air Conditioner Outage Shuts Down Brooklyn Museum for the Weekend
It appears this week’s summer heat in New York has impacted the art world, as the Brooklyn Museum just announced it will be closed this weekend because of an “air-conditioning outage.”
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3D-Rendered Visions of Dystopia, Inspired by the Housing Market Crash
PHILADELPHIA — Up the stairs on the second floor of Locks Gallery, you’ll find an exhibition of landscapes. These aren’t the boring, pastoral, plein air landscapes you’ll find for sale in droves up the street in Old City.
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5th-Century Biblical Mosaics Found in Ancient Synagogue
Animals marching onto Noah’s Ark and the parting of the Red Sea feature in two mosaic floor panels discovered in a Roman-era synagogue in Huqoq, Israel
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A Brooklyn Museum App Encourages Visitors to Ask Questions
In May, the Brooklyn Museum launched the new Android version of its ASK app, a mobile application that enables visitors to interact with the museum’s audience engagement staff in real time.