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A New NYC Subway Art Installation Lends a Watchful Eye
Artist Fred Tomaselli designed his bird-inspired 680-square-foot mosaic for Manhattan’s 14th Street station.
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Cathartic Art for Precarious Times
Fred Tomaselli’s incorporation of printed news in his paintings long before the pandemic now seems downright prescient.
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Beer with a Painter: Fred Tomaselli
“There is an outer world of violent chaos, and an inside world that is the paradise of being an artist.”
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Best of 2014: Our Top 10 Art Books
There's never a shortage of art books, but it is often hard to find the best in a field flooded with vanity projects, sales tools, and books that promise so much more than they deliver.
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Gallery Hosts Miniature Gravity Car Race Featuring 100s of Artist-Designed Chariots
Pierogi is a Williamsburg, Brooklyn art gallery, and one of its longest-running traditions turns 20 this week: Brooklyn Gravity Racers.
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When Snakes Could Walk: Contemporary Artists Take On the Garden of Eden
In a 1483 German Bible, the Garden of Eden is depicted as a corralled green circle; Adam and Even are ejected from its manicured grass to a hilly wilderness, with a trail leading off into the unknown. This idealized interpretation of original sin sits alongside more modern takes on our relationship
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Fred Tomaselli Talks Pot, Gardening, and the New York Times
"Wasn’t pot your gateway drug to gardening?" Lawrence Weschler asked Fred Tomaselli teasingly during their recent conversation for the New York Public Library’s Art and Literature Series.
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All the Art That's Fit to Print
It’s not clear who scooped whom, but there are two gallery shows now on view in New York that examine the relationship between art and the newspaper.
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Back to the Future, the Williamsburg that Waz
After watching Bushwick's visual arts scene grow and usurp the energy of Williamsburg's two decades of dominance as the epicenter of the city's artistic edge, curator Larry Walczak decided it was time to put together an exhibition that investigates the neighborhood's recent art heritage. The show, W
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Is The Art Show a Senior Citizen's Swinger's Club Past its Prime?
The Art Show has been hosted by the Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) for the last 23 years, reigning supreme as the longest running national art fair. The ADAA consists of 175 galleries but only seventy exhibitors enrolled this year, excluding stunners like Andrea Rosen, Betty Cunningham, P
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Reading Ian Berry's Fred Tomaselli
The Brooklyn Museum's catalog for their Fred Tomaselli exhibition is pretty mammoth for a show that only takes up three galleries. Still, the tome serves well as a way to expand on ideas presented in the exhibition and give a greater view of the artist's work than would otherwise be possible in the
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Fred Tomaselli's (Non-Chemical) Influences
One might be excused for mistaking Fred Tomaselli’s solo show at the Brooklyn Museum for a pharmacy. Upon closer look, the collaged paintings, baroquely-arranged magazine clippings coated in a thick layer of resin, are embedded with pills the way a microchip is implanted under the skin. Sometimes th